I really enjoyed reading this post. I think it was very interesting what you brought up here. (but first, quick shout out to Alanna and the Immortals series, HOLLA!) I do tend to like those characters that people define as "Strong female characters" (be they a or b) but I think it is important to note their flaws. And I think it is the flaws that makes a character into someone I love. Do people really just talk about Cary btw? Cause that is stupid. He shows up in my convos, but mostly I spend my time waxing poetic about how Alicia is my favorite. Looking at her, I'd say she was definitely both b and c in your types of strong women. I think she is epic always, but it is the little cracks we also get to see that I think help me connect with her and I think that shows should NOT over look this so I agree with you 100%.
Just the other day I was watching a show and a guy did something I didn't like, but when a girl was about to do the same thing, I found I minded it far less. Of course, at this exact moment I paused the show and realized what I was doing and berated myself for letting myself hold such double standards.
Anyways, I am starting to babble. I really enjoyed reading your thoughts and agreed with many of them. BUT THIS: All the women in fiction to be stoic scientists who know how to work a gun and don't ever want children who are supernaturally gorgeous but don't ever embody feminine traits outside of their appearance? Because sometimes I totally love that. But I also wish we were ready to broach insecurity and motherhood and sexual confusion and fear of growing up and body image and all all the weird little things that make us flawed. But instead it's like we just want to gloss over the parts of these hbic-y or whatever female characters that are flawed and interesting and different YES.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-07-02 04:54 pm (UTC)Just the other day I was watching a show and a guy did something I didn't like, but when a girl was about to do the same thing, I found I minded it far less. Of course, at this exact moment I paused the show and realized what I was doing and berated myself for letting myself hold such double standards.
Anyways, I am starting to babble. I really enjoyed reading your thoughts and agreed with many of them. BUT THIS:
All the women in fiction to be stoic scientists who know how to work a gun and don't ever want children who are supernaturally gorgeous but don't ever embody feminine traits outside of their appearance? Because sometimes I totally love that. But I also wish we were ready to broach insecurity and motherhood and sexual confusion and fear of growing up and body image and all all the weird little things that make us flawed. But instead it's like we just want to gloss over the parts of these hbic-y or whatever female characters that are flawed and interesting and different YES.