[ SECRET POST #1271 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1271 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

When I first started writing, my favorite characters were from books like Narnia and LotR. English authors. I started writing about people in England, never mind that I grew up in California. This is just what you wrote about, it felt like. I wanted to write well, I wanted to write the stuff I liked, and what I had liked so far took place in England.

We are trained from a very young age to empathize/like White Male Lead Characters. Look at the cartoons you watched as a child, look at the books you read, think about your past favorite characters, I bet your going to find them overwhelmingly dominated by white males. This isn't your fault, it's an institution that's been in place since white dominated societies began.

When you are a child and you're looking at these choices, just as an example:

Male Lead, Characteristics: Brave, outgoing, bossy
Male Friend: Funny, helpful
Male Friend: Bookish, shy
Female Lead: FEMALE, SHE IS FEMALE, SHE IS FEMALE.

Odds are that you're going to start drifting toward one of the characters that actually has a personality, one like yours, maybe, rather than the female character that is very flat and a stereotype. After a while it becomes a habit, and this is why we reject awesome female leads when they are finally given to us. We've spent so long being given sour apples, we've been made biased against them, and when we think about characters we like, a female one doesn't come to mind.

This is my theory on it, anyway.