I'm looking at this article looking for weaker women characters in movies and TV, and I only kind of agree with her. Because I can't let go of my Zoe love. I think that they often cripple an otherwise strong woman with a neurosis so she can't be too capable or too cool. Oh, she can kick your ass, but ha-ha, look what she can't do.
The idea of making more female characters neurotic like Elliot on Scrubs or fall down like Lucy on I Love Lucy makes me shiver. But I totally get the point that Megan Fox's character in
Transformers
is just a marionnette ideal and not even a character at all.
my jaw for being propped open for 90 minutes
Oh yeah, that's by far the worst part.
Reading the Firefly thread with mieskie now. He's just asserted that the New York Times "is not a big paper nationally."
Good times, good times.
Also, wow, reading the whole thread all at once (I mean, not the whole thread, but you know), it's so incredibly obvious that mieskie and schmoker/Anathema are the same person.
I admittedly only skimmed that "strong women" article but boy did she miss the point. If you think the solution to the problem of how women are presented on tv is just to create them with one flaw, you've missed all feminist criticism.
A much shorter article is "create well-rounded female characters, huh?" I disagree with most all of the specific suggestions as trivial and unhelpful. Some of the characters she mentions are well-rounded, some are horrific.
Wow, Dana, you had more than one instance of one person/many characters on the board? I thought Gus was the only one.
I mean, apart from me/megan and juliana/Smonster.
Once your female characters have some depth to them, it doesn’t really matter if the male hero saves them or not. For instance, Batman saved Rachel Dawes a couple of times, but I never saw her as only a Damsel in Distress
I agree with the first sentence. But to use Rachel Dawes as an example of a movie character with depth...makes my brain hurt.
Wow, Dana, you had more than one instance of one person/many characters on the board? I thought Gus was the only one.
Gus was actually only one "person" on the board. I mean, unless you count the girlfriend who showed up to announce his pseudicide.
mieskie posted in the Firefly thread, got himself suspended and then banned for two months, and came back under another name.
I mean, apart from me/megan and juliana/Smonster.
And me and shrift.
