I have always been kind of uncomfortable with the amount of emphasis fandom places on whether or not female characters could physically best you in a fight.
This is super interesting, and I don't really get that emphasis, either. I mean, I get loving bamf females. It all comes down to an aspect of feminism that I think focuses too much of it's energy on physical strength and power, but that's my own issue. I love badass female characters, people like Scully or Juliet from Lost, but with those ladies they became that hardcore and ass kicking because their circumstances dictated that they become that in order to survive. Brennan doesn't need to carry a gun or punch people or manipulate them or beat them up. That's what Booth does, and him filling that role doesn't make her a weak female or something. Her life just doesn't require these skills as necessity. Her growing emotionally, becoming a more well rounded individual, becoming more comfortable with herself, her family, her relationships, those all make her a way better character, and in no way "less" or "not cool." But that's just me, I'm not as emotionally attached to Bones as others.
I am impulse buying that dress because I just worked two weeks straight and am getting a huge paycheck down the line, woot, woot. In blue, cause they don't have my size in red. Sadface.
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Date: 2010-03-13 12:48 am (UTC)This is super interesting, and I don't really get that emphasis, either. I mean, I get loving bamf females. It all comes down to an aspect of feminism that I think focuses too much of it's energy on physical strength and power, but that's my own issue. I love badass female characters, people like Scully or Juliet from Lost, but with those ladies they became that hardcore and ass kicking because their circumstances dictated that they become that in order to survive. Brennan doesn't need to carry a gun or punch people or manipulate them or beat them up. That's what Booth does, and him filling that role doesn't make her a weak female or something. Her life just doesn't require these skills as necessity. Her growing emotionally, becoming a more well rounded individual, becoming more comfortable with herself, her family, her relationships, those all make her a way better character, and in no way "less" or "not cool." But that's just me, I'm not as emotionally attached to Bones as others.
I am impulse buying that dress because I just worked two weeks straight and am getting a huge paycheck down the line, woot, woot. In blue, cause they don't have my size in red. Sadface.