[ SECRET POST #1943 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1943 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 161 secrets from Secret Submission Post #278.
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Comments

[intrigueing.livejournal.com]

Why should you be "happy" that the women are better than the men at everything? I thought feminism was supposed to be about equality, not female superiority. When writers try to make out that women are better than everything than men are instead of equal, it sometimes comes off as REALLY condescending, like they're going "oh yes sure honey, you're totally better than us! *nudge nudge wink wink let's humor those poor silly little ladies who actually think they're equal to men lol!*"

And also, because it's bullcrap -- i.e., it doesn't match up with real life as I know it. In my own personal experience, I fail at stuff sometimes, I'm occasionally awkward and stupid, I do embarrassing things, I become irrational, I have utterly crazy ideas that smack me in the face, I can be lazy and crude, I don't always know what's best for me, some of my jokes are lame, I have completely idiotic conversations with my friends, I have been sexually humiliated through no one's fault but my own, I have fallen head-over-heels for more than one oblivious guy, I have gotten caught up in completely bizarre mindsets that I wish someone, male or female, had been around during to smack me and yell "what do you think you're doing???", and I generally succeed in making an ass out of myself every once in a while. And I know as many guys who are smarter and more level-headed than me as I know guys who are dumber and goofier than me.

So these uber-cool-headed reasonable hyper-competent women who are always wise and poised and rational are totally unrelatable to me, meaning I prefer the male characters by default since they're the only ones who are relatable. And that annoys me because I want to have characters that I relate to who are female. I don't want to feel that I'm cut off from relatable characters because of my gender.

[darkmanifest.livejournal.com]

All of this. I want real women, not someone's idealized version of them, because god knows I'm nobody's idealized version of anything. It's also why my favorite characters are the ones who screw up a lot, yet still find ways around their mistakes and flaws to victory, the way actual people have to.