[ SECRET POST #086 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #086 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 46 secrets from Secret Submission Post #013.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow,Monday, April 2nd, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[glitterbats.livejournal.com]

6. Why is it that strong kick ass male fighters are immediately accepted but strong kick ass female. fighters are called Mary Sue's? That just doesn't make any sense to me.

Because a woman's place is to be protected and cherished by the hero so that at the end of the story, they can ride off into the sunset with scenes of future wedded bliss and OMGKAWAII children to follow. Anything else is just unrealistic, empty wish fulfillment by bitter women who've never REALLY been loved.

/bitter, but not because of a lack of love

[luzerna.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, those types of female characters get bashed for being "Mary-Sues" just as much as the female fighters.

You just can't win these days. :(

[glitterbats.livejournal.com]

You just can't win these days. :(

Not if you have double Xs, you can't. :(

[bedlam14.livejournal.com]

It's kind of scary- the idea of the 'unfulfilled woman' being the strong, independant type. The whole thing is a real throwback to the 50's, when women that wanted to be poets and doctors and not have children were considered neurotic and unstable.
Supposedly our generation prides itself on being so pro-this and liberal-that, but when we look at what these Sue writers and character bashers are saying and doing, it doesn't match with our 'image' at all. WTF, (wo)man?