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I know there's some issues with the series, but I love the abundance of female characters on Once Upon a Time!! The fact that there are so many great female characters, both good and evil is excellent. Plus, so many of the women on the show are badass; Emma wielding a sword last season? Snow pulling a sword in the first moments of the show, as well as a bow and arrow this season? Say what you will about the show, but this alone is part of what makes it one of my favorite things on TV right now, the variety of female characters in positions of power.

I really like how it is the women who are almost always saving the men's butts. With the exception of Rump, the men are always getting themselves into trouble and need rescuing.

Don't get me wrong, I love all the physical ass-kicking the women in OUAT get to do! But I really, really love that a lot of the strong women in OUAT are strong without picking up weapons and some of them (Belle and Aurora for example) are shown as not great with weapons but they still show how strong they are. And I love so many other things about the way the show plays with gender and other stereotypes: there are multiple female villains and heroes, men who need rescuing, a single dad who plays tea party with his kid, a pair of disabled villain tricksters who hate each other, strong family as well as romantic relationships, the OUAT version of Beauty and the Beast has the Beast's human form as old and crippled and Beauty still loves him (hey, Disney finally did right by Robin McKinley's Beauty and had the Beast turn into an old guy with long grey hair!), and even with all the hot guys in tight leather, the fandom is still full of femmeslash. If the writers manage to iron out an overarching plot and include more POC and some canon LGBT people next season I will stan it even harder than I already do. I love non monster-of-the-week fantasy shows and fantasy classic lit kitchen sink stuff and silly soap-operaish plots, and I will cheerfully babble about OUAT all day long.

Oh, for sure! I love how emotionally strong they are, or even when they're not emotionally strong how they work at it. The female characters are well-rounded, Snow and Charming save each other and both need rescuing, etc. It's not so much strong female characters, but strong written characters period, regardless of gender.

The lack of POC characters is one of the things I find problematic tbh (even though Sidney Glass, Mulan and Lancelot were great, they weren't there for all that long), and I'd love for there to be some canon LGBT characters (I really hope they can get Disney to OK a great LGBT character). If they fixed that I would be an even bigger fan.

(apparently Lancelot is supposed to come back and I'm honestly super jazzed for that.)

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