[ SECRET POST #1577 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1577 ⌋


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


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #225.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeats ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[twenty-rooks.livejournal.com]

The problem is that female characters aren't allowed to simply be characters (even by their defenders!) but have to be representations of What A Woman Is.

Personally, I think that the badly written female characters are badly written because the writers didn't succeed in what they were aiming for (trying to write an independent woman but still not allowing her to actually be independent, for example), not because they are written as a weak person. Some women are weak/cowards/unintelligent/ and so on, just like some men.

Generally I think that everyone would do better in stop trying to write the perfect woman and try to write as many variations as male characters are afforded instead.

[interrobangings.livejournal.com]

i like this comment

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

The problem is that female characters aren't allowed to simply be characters (even by their defenders!) but have to be representations of What A Woman Is.

THISTHISTHISTHISTHIS. THIS. SO. MUCH.

The only truly "wrong" thing about how any female character is portrayed is an audience mistaking a female character for a female role model. Or an audience thinking that all females in fiction have to represent something essential about female-ness rather than just being individuals.

[twenty-rooks.livejournal.com]

Yes! The only problem is when a female character is supposed to be a role model (or someone to be admired for certain traits or actions) but the writing is failing to believably portray her as such. Like if they're supposed to be extremely competent at what they do, don't have them make beginners mistakes in their area of expertise to further the plot, and similar.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Or when they suffer from Dumbass in Distress Disorder.

[unifilar.livejournal.com]

^ please tell me that was a Nostalgia Critic reference? =D

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

8D

[unifilar.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! <3

Love the icon, too.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Thankee! :D

[justaminuet.livejournal.com]

This so much. Female characters are not there to be the representation of womanhood. And no female character, unless poorly written, is a "wrong" or "bad" female, as women are just as diverse in personalities as men. And even if the fault lays in the writing, it doesn't make her a bad woman, just a bad character. And that's the writer's fault, not the character's gender.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I agree.

And I like having female characters not be perfect because I'm not perfect. Sure I like having one who can take on five armed attackers single-handed and never lets life her get her down, but if they were all like that, well, they'd all be the opposite of me.

[alliterations.livejournal.com]

Generally I think that everyone would do better in stop trying to write the perfect woman and try to write as many variations as male characters are afforded instead.

A+

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

I agree. The biggest problem is that there are, most of the time, fewer female characters than male. Therefore, they are more likely to be less varied and fit more into stereotypes. Because there are usually more male characters, they can be more varied, be less cliched, and have something in at least one of them that people can relate to. That is failed writing and poor characterization, though, and can happen to male characters sometimes too. It has nothing to do with them being bad women. Writers just need to start writing more female characters, both as main and as secondary.

[masked-creator.livejournal.com]

Have an internet.

[deciphre.livejournal.com]

You rock.

[formula-410.livejournal.com]

This is such a great comment, thank you.

[anthropomorphe.livejournal.com]

I would seriously give you my first born as a sign of respect for this comment, but idk I'm pretty sure there's laws against that.