User blog comment:Don25/ Cody deserves to return, but without Sierra./@comment-4726418-20171201165250

"It's not funny, because if Sierra were a man, nobody would find it funny. Why should the reverse be funny?"

I seem to recall Cody being an abrasive creep to Gwen too, and compared to Sierra, he wasn't nearly as nice to Gwen as Sierra could be to him minus the stalker issues. Nobody batted an eyelid when it turned out he had these see-through X-ray goggles to spy on girls with, or his sniffing of Gwen after she told him to beat it, or him asking for Gwen's bra out of the blue. I'm not using this as a complaint on him because it's an established trait of his to be intrusive and bad with girls. But what I'm saying is that it works both ways in how the kind of joke goes, regardless of whether you find Cody and/or Sierra funny. Not defending Sierra either; an extremely vitriolically obsessive person who has trouble finding an off button, and the many lovely and selfless acts she does for Cody doesn't always redeem the behavior of her as a person. So for you to say nobbody would find 'a man' doing this funny is demonstrably false and a generalization, since lots of people have found Cody funny, including when he tries to be a lady's man.

As for the subject of the blog, I personally hope not. At the worst of times Cody is a grating nuisance who's somehow simultaneously pretty stale, especially when he's put alongside the likes of Gwen, Heather, and Sierra, all of which are bigger and more fleshed out characters than he ever was. He's consistently always needed a female character for him to deliver anything and rarely is independent. I really don't think the writers care that much about him judging by how they've used him as an aspect to other characters rather than making him his own and there's so many other characters in the show that still need deserved more spotlight to them.