[ SECRET POST #4279 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4279 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. [SPOILERS for Killing Ground]



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03. [SPOILERS for In Bruges]



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04. [SPOILERS for The Babysitter]



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05. [SPOILERS for Great British Menu series 7]

[Great British Menu series 7, Alan Murchison]


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06. [WARNING for discussion of non-con]

























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Comments

[des_pudels_kern]

I don't see much of this around anymore these days. Instead currently I have more of an issue with the opposite: The female characters' glorification into perfect goddesses adored by the male characters, constantly smirking knowingly (of course they know the hapless male characters' feelings better than they themselves), all the while pressuring and manipulating them for their own good and crossing serious boundaries while sassing everybody in their way. Usually with a side of everybody else doing as they say because they are scared of them, but in a good way, you know, badass rather than evil.

I understand that it's the counter-movement to what OP describes, idealization rather than demonization because we are all feminists now who love rather than bash women, but it's no less out of character, reducing female characters to tropes rather than letting them be people, and not calling them out on certain behaviour because they are superior queens that can do no wrong will only age marginally better than the previous habit of portraying them as evil harpies.

[cloudtrader]

I agree with you. Very well put, thanks for writing that out! I think what you're describing is a variant of the Self-Insert & Mary Sue and are very often not done very well at all, at all. It still reduces the female character to a one-dimensional background trope.