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Puri ([personal profile] shamanicshaymin) wrote2011-02-12 08:08 pm
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Now here's an interesting article.

Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad For Women

I always wondered about that. We get a lot of so-called "strong" female characters "full of attitude," but in the end they're not well developed, and you just don't connect to them at all. :/ It's not enough for a girl to "kick ass." I mean yeah, that's nice, but it's not a necessity to be a likable and respected character. What makes her truly awesome is she's got some goddamn humanity, not that she was a cardboard poster child to be gawked by sleazy nerdy fanboys about how awesome she is ~*FOR A WOMAN*~

I dunno, this paragraph says it better than me: This Super Strong Female Character is almost like a Mary Sue, except instead of being perfect in every way because she’s a stand-in for the author, she’s perfect in every way so the male audience will want to bang her and so the female audience won’t be able to say, “Tsk tsk, what a weak female character!” It’s a win-win situation.

It's like people think in shallow terms regarding what "strong" and "flawed" means. Strong only applies to bruisers, of course! You're a flawed character if you fall over a lot and people laugh and find it endearing. That's Hollywood for ya. And recent books with so-called "independent heroines" and video games. MICROWAVE BEAM AQUIRED. MAKE DINNER FOR ADAM.

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