yhwx said:
I don’t freaking care whether it’s a part of the “official” definition, it still has an inheriently mysogonist quality around, even if people don’t realize that (which may be caused by further sexism). It’s still a product of our sexist culture.

So noting that Wesley Crusher was a Mary Sue, is “inherently misogynistic”? How does that work? You realize that Wesley Crusher was a male character, right? Your mere assertion holds no water. It is simply the name of a type of character. By the way, the person who wrote the parody featuring the character for which the trope was subsequently named, is a woman (Paula Smith), which means the most famous person to mock the type of character now known as a Mary Sue, is a woman. I suppose she’s “misogynistic” too?