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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-09-03 08:28 pm

[ SECRET POST #2801 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2801 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-09-04 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Strong Female Characters" ought to mean strong characters who happen to be women, where "strong" means interesting and engaging. Strong characters are well-written and well-developed. They are people we want to see more of. They are people we want to see interact with other strong characters. Strong characters can be wildly different in terms of gender, appearance, personality, morality, physical prowess, motivations, and goals. A strong character can be physically weak, indecisive, or morally gray. There is no single type of character that is universally strong or universally weak as a character.

Instead, we get people thinking "Strong Female Characters" means characters who are strong women, where "strong" is very narrowly defined to mean - as others have said - violent and aggressive. They don't even need to be particularly strong physically, or to have strength of character - they just need to be able to shoot things and spout a one-liner.