Let Fictional Women be Weird

Greatly appreciate it when writers let their women characters be weird gremlins without having the story and narrative punish her for it. Just letting them be weird without their character "development" push them into being less weird.

There's such a narrow, incredibly demeaning set of stereotypes for lady characters, and they all tend to loop back into making the women submit to feminine stereotypes, even if they start out as an attempt to subvert them.

• "Simple" girl / Girl-next-door stories have a tendency to be disdainful towards very feminine women whose interests and aesthetics match patriarchal expectations. Girl-next-door appeals to those aren't into hyper-femininity, but the highlights of her character - simplicity, kindness, being "low-maintenance" - tend to accidentally imply that being hyperfeminine removes those traits from women.
• The Femme fatale knows she's attractive and weaponizes it to get what she wants. And while it's nice to see stories about bold, ambitious women, she's often a villainous character. It just follows the trend of women's sexuality being vilified and used as an excuse to call a woman manipulative for being attractive. The whole Madonna-Whore shebang. A sexual woman is a "fallen" woman, so a woman who uses her sexuality for selfish (read: non-reproductive, not for pleasuring the male) reasons is therefore a different kind of evil.
• The Girl Boss is relatively new, and an understandable response to how fictional women are often shafted as sidekicks, caretakers, damsels-in-distresses, and just pretty objects to give motivation to the male hero. Unfortunately, it just looped back around to being a woman who is effortlessly skilled, confident, and beautiful. And if she's not utterly devoid of actual personality, she often becomes a "mean lesbian" stereotype, a "mom" figure wrangling the "dumb men", or a "cold widow" stereotype who has become bitter because her man is gone or because she can't have a family. Also frankly just lazy writing - it IS possible to write an interesting and competent woman, not get her fridged or overshadowed by the male cast for no reason, and not have her main role/story/backstory be about family or romance.

Small growing list of gremlin women:

• Maomao (and Shisui) from Apothecary Diaries. Very enthusiastic and knowledgeable about weird, unfeminine things (poison and insects, respectively). Cunning. Experiences gender-related trauma and obstacles, but not defined by it.
• Many characters from Dungeon Meshi. Falin is noted to be a fairly odd person, despite fitting the gentle healer archetype.
• Susie from Deltarune
• Many of the women in Dandadan.
• The women in Bleach are not immune to being dumbasses or starting shenanigans.