[ SECRET POST #2801 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2801 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I think it's not a bad term per se, but then male writers took it entirely too literally and think being "strong" means taking the most basic female character and giving her a gun to shoot.

What they didn't get is that we wanted well rounded, interesting female characters of all types. Female characters that were just as well developed as their male counterparts and didn't rely on old sexist stereotypes.

[ariakas]

taking the most basic female character and giving her a gun to shoot

Hahah yeah that's literally it, too. It would have been different if they actually made them fully kick-ass all around and as competent as the male leads, but... For a while there there was a slew of films that created what you could tell they thought was a "strong female character" just by having her ride a motorcycle or fly a jet or hack a computer - some "manly" skill - which serves some minor plot point, then spend the rest of the film being the hero's girlfriend/damsel in distress/nothing of importance. Or have her swear a lot or have an "attitude" but be utterly ineffectual while the male characters get everything done.

The newest Terminator with Christian Bale had a particularly egregious one of these as I recall. She literally flies a military jet once in service to a plot point, then immediately afterwards get victimized, has to be saved by the hero, is given to the hero as a reward, and does nothing else of importance for the rest of the film while the two male leads do it all. Just... wow. Wow. Why was she even present? Congratulations, you've created a prop to reaffirm the lead's masculinity... now with a single non-gender-normative skill!