[ SECRET POST #1978 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1978 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Friending Meme if people want to add each other on DW!

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Comments

[ariakas]

Yeah, seconding what anon said above. Several of the most well-loved female characters, such as Ripley from Alien, were originally intended to be men but changed to women after the character had already been developed. Why? Because male characters tend to not only be better-developed, but also developed differently. Few authors think "okay, now I'm going to create a male character" like they do female characters. Instead they're tabula rasa, which makes for a much more exciting starting point. If you start by thinking "so what would this woman be like?" you filter in all kinds of social expectations of womanhood that rarely stack up against what women are actually like in real life. This is why I went through a phase of not finding any female characters I really cared for in most of my fandoms, but being extremely confused because there were so many awesome and incredible women I knew in real life. Where were they in the media I was consuming? Why was it always these same unrealistic, lame archetypes instead?

So by basing them on male characters, you're not only probably fleshing them out better and with fewer biases, but making them more like real life women, too.

[loki]

+10000000 to everything you are saying. This is my experience as well. And unfortunately it sucks.