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[astridv]

At least a dozen times in the past few weeks I came across the tired argument that "female characters are all so crappily written and the male ones are always so much better developed and interesting and that's why they get all the attention." I really wish these people could just own up to preferring guy characters, instead of defending their preferences by dissing the women in the same breath.

In light of this, I updated my collage No Interesting Female Characters My Ass with Sophie Devereaux, Parker, and Black Widow. Been meaning to do that for ages. Fuck you, fandom, these chicks are awesome.

(This is not a discussion post so if anyone feels compelled to drop in and make a case why any of them don't meet some criteria for awesome: keep it out of my journal. I had that discussion, at length; I won't any more.)

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[ratcreature]

Maybe eventually people will realize that when it comes to sexism (as with other oppressions) the key to do better is controlling the own voluntary actions about which you can do something fairly easily rather than trying (and failing) to control the own involuntary thoughts (like character preferences), that are really hard to change, and then attempt to escape the uncomfortable internal dissonance of falling short of the own ideal by arguing the own sexism away to deny it.

I mean, as you say, writing apologia-meta denigrating female characters is a sexist action that would be easy to control and to stop, whereas changing the own sexist, idiosyncratic character preferences is not as simple.