Rick And Morty Co-Creator Slams Fans Attacking The Series’ New Female Writers

Rick and Morty has been adding more female writers to its team for its third season on Netflix, however, these newbies have become victims of online harassment by a toxic segment in the popular animated science fiction comedy's fanbase.

Though Rick and Morty's been enjoying the best reviews of its run on Adult Swim now that it's been airing its third season, some terribly toxic fans have been attacking the series' new writers, Jane Becker and Jessica Gao.

Going on an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Rick and Morty co-creator and showrunner Dan Harmon went on to condemn these attackers, empathizing with women in the entertainment industry and the struggles they have to face.

"I was familiar going into the third season, having talked to Felicia Day, that any high-profile women get doxxed, they get harassed, they get threatened, they get slandered. And part of it is a testosterone-based subculture patting themselves on the back for trolling these women. Because to the extent that you get can get a girl to shriek about a frog you've proven girls are girly and there's no crime in assaulting her with a frog because it's all in the name of proving something. I think it's all disgusting."

Going on, Harmon decided to air out his grievance and disgust towards people who try to harass women because of the belief that they're protecting a show that they think they own.

"These knobs, that want to protect the content they think they own — and somehow combine that with their need to be proud of something they have, which is often only their race or gender. It's offensive to me as someone who was born male and white, and still works way harder than them, that there's some white male [fan out there] trying to further some creepy agenda by ‘protecting' my work. I've made no bones about the fact that I loathe these people. It f—ing sucks. And the only thing I can say is if you're lucky enough to make a show that is really good that people like, that means some bad people are going to like it too. You can't just insist that everybody who watches your show get their head on straight … And I'm speaking for myself — I don't want the show to have a political stance. But at the same time, individually, these [harassers] aren't politicians and don't represent politics. They represent some shit that I probably believed when I was 15."

No matter how much a fan loves or hates an episode in Rick and Morty, their feelings don't give them the right to attack the writers of the series. They don't write the episodes, nor do they own the show, and it's terrible to hear that fans have been sending death threats just because they didn't like an episode on Rick and Morty.

Rick and Morty airs every Sunday at 11:30 PM on Adult Swim.

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