(like WHY DO PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD WIFE ONLY TALK ABOUT CARY) OMG SO TRUE. I like Cary and all but he;s actually just kind of boring.
Really like what you said here, I think it hits a lot of points that frankly sometimes I am ashamed of admitting or some things that I completely agree with you on. Honestly, in asian dramas.. they have often two characters - cute and helpless or beautiful and bitchy ex-girlfriend. Like ASDHALSKCALKSMDJNOWIERJLSDJFj. But I continue to watch for completely shallow reasons. And at some points I can totally relate to these women and their flaws. Even if as a feminist (in the vaguest terms), I don't want her to cry over some asshole, why can't she get over it, why is she weak etc!! But I know I have done that before so why can't she? So I agree, we need to embrace the flaws. I think sometimes self-purported feminists (definitely me included) really try to measure up women to our socially shaped standards of what a "strong" women should be and how can that work, really ever since there are still less women represented, less women writers, and a long history of the representation of women and etc. etc?
AND ALSO AGREE THAT WE ARE TOO FORGIVING OF MEN CHARACTERS. they can have all these weaknesses and flaws, but we can't? f that
anyway A+ entry!! I love thinking/reading about these things, sometimes we really get caught up in fandom and stop being critical about how we feel about characters.
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Date: 2011-07-02 02:20 am (UTC)Really like what you said here, I think it hits a lot of points that frankly sometimes I am ashamed of admitting or some things that I completely agree with you on. Honestly, in asian dramas.. they have often two characters - cute and helpless or beautiful and bitchy ex-girlfriend. Like ASDHALSKCALKSMDJNOWIERJLSDJFj. But I continue to watch for completely shallow reasons. And at some points I can totally relate to these women and their flaws. Even if as a feminist (in the vaguest terms), I don't want her to cry over some asshole, why can't she get over it, why is she weak etc!! But I know I have done that before so why can't she? So I agree, we need to embrace the flaws. I think sometimes self-purported feminists (definitely me included) really try to measure up women to our socially shaped standards of what a "strong" women should be and how can that work, really ever since there are still less women represented, less women writers, and a long history of the representation of women and etc. etc?
AND ALSO AGREE THAT WE ARE TOO FORGIVING OF MEN CHARACTERS. they can have all these weaknesses and flaws, but we can't? f that
anyway A+ entry!! I love thinking/reading about these things, sometimes we really get caught up in fandom and stop being critical about how we feel about characters.