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⌈ Secret Post #2791 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/

Interesting secret... personally, if there are no relatable female character, only stupid ones or Mary Sue ones, I identify more easily with the male character. This is what I did when reading classic literature written centuries ago and it's very easy. What I hate are 'new' modern books like Twilight where I am supposed to identify with the Bella character simply because she's the heroine and is pretty (sorry, smells good or whatever?) Nope.

If you read the article reference above, I did not identify with Trinity when I saw The Matrix the first time. She seemed as empty as a princess in a fairy tale: beautiful, smart and tragic instead of blonde, patient and kind, but the same, really. The love interest: a desirable goal, but not an actual character in the story.

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[(Anonymous)]

I saw that article yesterday. I thought it had some good points but was setting the bar too high. A lot of the characters it talks about are well-written characters and the article even admits that, but since they're female and don't fit a special set of features that not enough female characters have, they still don't get to be strong.

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[(Anonymous)]

You know, I don't think Bella is a good character, I do not like the Twilight books, but I think you miss a couple of reasons why many girls related to her:

She felt like an outsider in her life, she felt put-upon by her parents, she didn't really know how to make friends, she read a lot, she wasn't athletic, she was kind of sardonic, she liked retro stuff, and she was into cute boys.

As far as why people could have idolized her? Cute boys were into her, she read classic literature and enjoyed it, she had a cool car, she was theoretically a responsible person, as she "took care" of her mother, she was self-sacrificing (again, theoretically), and probably some other things.

So, no, I don't think Bella was a great character or even good...or even mediocre...but I don't think that people should dismiss out of hand why it was that some young girls liked and identified with Bella.