[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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

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Comments

[saturnofthemoon]

I don't understand how she's a stereotype.

[(Anonymous)]

I was trying to figure that out as well...maybe the whole "hooker with a heart of gold" trope? I know Pretty Woman didn't start it, but that's all I can think of as an example.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it probably comes up a lot in old Westerns and crime novels and other pulp fiction and things like that. And that's probably why Inara got made into that type of character to begin with, because obv Whedon was in large part messing around with the trappings of Westerns in Firefly.

However funnily enough I don't think Inara does actually fall into that category - the specific nature of Companions in the Firefly universe actually removes a lot of the fundamental parts of the "hooker with a heart of gold" thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Theoretically it wasn't Whedon's fault - Fox wanted him to have a "space whore." I fault him for a lot of things, but that was Fox.

(Of course, he might as well have refused, as they cancelled it anyway. And for all I know that's an excuse his fangirls made up...)

[(Anonymous)]

That's interesting and I didn't know that!

Man, you gotta wonder about those executives - "space whore" is a really bizarre thing to demand.

[cassandraoftroy]

That's what I came here to ask too. "Sophisticated, well-respected Buddhist prostitute" doesn't read as a stereotype to me.

[(Anonymous)]

My thought is that she's closer to the stereotype of the [female] saloon owner since they tend to be respected in westerns in a similar way to how Inara is, but also usually have a healthy trade in prostitution [Though it varies to if it's them or the girls who work at the place].

And, at least in Westerns, religion very rarely factors into the stereotypes.

[cassandraoftroy]

Yeah, I could see that, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen the whole series but she reads to me like that tragic beauty character whose conflict is that everyone is so terrible to her because she's so damn beautiful. I don't really know how to describe it better than that.