The problem I think, when I complain about female characters (now I haven't SEEN this show, but I heard the internet explode) is that people assume "bad ass females" have to be a stereotype. I want a woman of strong character, not a strong woman character all the time. In that same note, women of color are practically ignored unless they follow very specific tropes.
Women have to be the ones to sacrifice themselves, if she's a sexual villain she has to do it on the behest of a man, if she's smart she can't also be sexual... the list goes on. I think confronting these issues, regardless of source is very important.
It's like my issue with the guy who wrote "Watchmen" he uses the "dead lesbian" trope to death. And while I get that he's trying to show that the bad guys are REALLY BAD because they kill lesbians, he's degraded those lesbian characters to "the dead lesbian" removing their being a character at all, really.
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on 2012-01-30 04:39 am (UTC)Women have to be the ones to sacrifice themselves, if she's a sexual villain she has to do it on the behest of a man, if she's smart she can't also be sexual... the list goes on. I think confronting these issues, regardless of source is very important.
It's like my issue with the guy who wrote "Watchmen" he uses the "dead lesbian" trope to death. And while I get that he's trying to show that the bad guys are REALLY BAD because they kill lesbians, he's degraded those lesbian characters to "the dead lesbian" removing their being a character at all, really.