This is a ma-a-a-an's world...
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r_scribblesStill here. Still not popped.
You know what? I'm going to see if I can't start a Meme, just for shits & giggles. It's an idea I came up with the other night...
Female characters tend not to have as much love in Fandom as males as a whole. It's most likely an outcome that results from a number of factors - I'm not just going to blame it on institutional misogyny, I don't think it's that simple. But I still don't like it. So, why not give the women and girls in your fandom/s a bit of love - Post with some of your favourite fictional females, and tell us why you like them. And pass it on!
Lynda Day
Every time some idiot who's only ever seen NuWho of The Moff's work claims based on that that he 'can't write female characters' I want to reach through the computer screen and staple a Garfield to their head. Lynda is complex, fierce, uncompromising, deep, furiously moral... she tries too hard to hide her concience, her fondness for those she keeps close and her anxiety - probably because as a girl in a man's world she perceives them as weaknesses. She struggles not to be seen to struggle and is therefore easily written off as a 'bitch', but she's actually probably the least bitchy female in Press Gang's core cast... OK, not counting Sarah! But the main reason I love her...? She is the world's worst dressed teen protagonist. Bar none. God bless her.
Turanga Leela
Like Lynda, Leela overcompensates for the massive insecurities she feels due to her appearance & upbringing by constantly trying to outperform at everything - not too difficult a task when you work for Planet Express. And like Lynda, she often goes in with all guns blazing without properly thinking things through, as well as often pushing away the one guy who really gets her - she's so used to being alone, plus she's a bit of a fantasist and has ideals that people can rarely live up to. I love her because she's such an outsider - she's so awkward - and so wonderfully unglamorous.
Daisy Steiner
Daisy is probably the most genuine female character I've ever seen. She's lovingly written and performed - an overweight, unfocussed, childlike geek, dreamer and aspiring writer in her mid 20s... watching Spaced in my early 20s I felt for the first time that I was watching a sympathetic character that was so close to being me. I was Daisy Steiner. I still am Daisy Steiner, a little. She's actually got the better wardrobe.
Kaylee & Zoe
There's no way I can choose between these two ladies, even though they couldn't be more different - Kaylee the sweet, cheerful, girlish techno-nerd hick and Zoe the stoic, badass warrior woman. Both excel at 'man's work' in a masculine world without sacrificing their comfort in their femininity... Kaylee surrounds herself with pretty things and Zoe enjoys being a wife, doing wifely things and craves motherhood - and I like to think that, had Firefly (and Wash) been given a longer lifespan, we'd have seen her juggle her work and pregnancy/children. There's much to aspire to in both of these ladies.
You know what? I'm going to see if I can't start a Meme, just for shits & giggles. It's an idea I came up with the other night...
Female characters tend not to have as much love in Fandom as males as a whole. It's most likely an outcome that results from a number of factors - I'm not just going to blame it on institutional misogyny, I don't think it's that simple. But I still don't like it. So, why not give the women and girls in your fandom/s a bit of love - Post with some of your favourite fictional females, and tell us why you like them. And pass it on!
Lynda Day
Every time some idiot who's only ever seen NuWho of The Moff's work claims based on that that he 'can't write female characters' I want to reach through the computer screen and staple a Garfield to their head. Lynda is complex, fierce, uncompromising, deep, furiously moral... she tries too hard to hide her concience, her fondness for those she keeps close and her anxiety - probably because as a girl in a man's world she perceives them as weaknesses. She struggles not to be seen to struggle and is therefore easily written off as a 'bitch', but she's actually probably the least bitchy female in Press Gang's core cast... OK, not counting Sarah! But the main reason I love her...? She is the world's worst dressed teen protagonist. Bar none. God bless her.
Turanga Leela
Like Lynda, Leela overcompensates for the massive insecurities she feels due to her appearance & upbringing by constantly trying to outperform at everything - not too difficult a task when you work for Planet Express. And like Lynda, she often goes in with all guns blazing without properly thinking things through, as well as often pushing away the one guy who really gets her - she's so used to being alone, plus she's a bit of a fantasist and has ideals that people can rarely live up to. I love her because she's such an outsider - she's so awkward - and so wonderfully unglamorous.
Daisy Steiner
Daisy is probably the most genuine female character I've ever seen. She's lovingly written and performed - an overweight, unfocussed, childlike geek, dreamer and aspiring writer in her mid 20s... watching Spaced in my early 20s I felt for the first time that I was watching a sympathetic character that was so close to being me. I was Daisy Steiner. I still am Daisy Steiner, a little. She's actually got the better wardrobe.
Kaylee & Zoe
There's no way I can choose between these two ladies, even though they couldn't be more different - Kaylee the sweet, cheerful, girlish techno-nerd hick and Zoe the stoic, badass warrior woman. Both excel at 'man's work' in a masculine world without sacrificing their comfort in their femininity... Kaylee surrounds herself with pretty things and Zoe enjoys being a wife, doing wifely things and craves motherhood - and I like to think that, had Firefly (and Wash) been given a longer lifespan, we'd have seen her juggle her work and pregnancy/children. There's much to aspire to in both of these ladies.
