omg I saw that the other day and I got so angry over it. That flowchart is IMPOSSIBLE to actually... not get a "stereotype" on. Apparently all females are stereotypes of something.
I mean... I can understand that some female deaths in literature and television, IN SOME AREAS, have been merely to advance the plot/feelings/ect of the male character... but to say that ALL FEMALES who die are just FRIDGE STUFFING and immediately written off and "weak" is so fucking pathetic and wrong.
SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE DIE. IT'S THE GENERAL PREMISE OF EVERYONE'S STORIES. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. It's not a threat, it's not something evil. You Are Going To Die.
And yes, sometimes many authors do terrible things with that premise, but DUDE. It doesn't translate to 'if a woman dies then everything she might have accomplished during her life and what she fought for and who she stood for is meaningless'.
I blame the 'Ariadne is Labyrinth!Sarah's daughter' on chocolaticida.
She draws labyrinths before she learns how to speak, and she's building them when she still has troubles walking. Ariadne draws labyrinths with chalk on the garage's floor and she walks with her mom around the stiks she put that become a maze.
She will, she thinks as she grows up, make it up to her namesake. Ariadne will grow up and she will build the best labyrinth that has ever existed, a labyrinth that can't be defeated.
I'd say 'Being an action hero' was probably the only way to be a 'Strong Female Character', but Ripley is a Final Girl on the chart so... I guess no SFC exists.
Gah, that flowchart is so incredibly stupid. It also seems like she hasn't seen half the canons - dude, the fiancee in Enchanted was ANYTHING BUT BITCHY! And if motherfucking Usagi Tsukino - she of the irrelevant love interest - can't carry a story, then who can? And Lucca is far more developed than Heroic Mime Chrono. And EVE is amazing and also non-stereotypical (I mean, the sensitive, soft one there is Wall-E, not her). And being a mother is not bad. And Marge is as realized as any Simpsons character.
Yes, female characters have issues. But that chart smells of 'Oh, I just write about dudes because the girls are so badly written!' and fuck, that's not feminist.
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DYING. DYING MEANS YOU'RE NOT STRONG. I just. I JUST.
THERE ARE NO WORDS.
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And yes, sometimes many authors do terrible things with that premise, but DUDE. It doesn't translate to 'if a woman dies then everything she might have accomplished during her life and what she fought for and who she stood for is meaningless'.
JUST. NO.
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She draws labyrinths before she learns how to speak, and she's building them when she still has troubles walking. Ariadne draws labyrinths with chalk on the garage's floor and she walks with her mom around the stiks she put that become a maze.
She will, she thinks as she grows up, make it up to her namesake. Ariadne will grow up and she will build the best labyrinth that has ever existed, a labyrinth that can't be defeated.
She's patient. She will make it work.
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Yes, female characters have issues. But that chart smells of 'Oh, I just write about dudes because the girls are so badly written!' and fuck, that's not feminist.
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There is so, so, SO much wrong in that chart that I want to print it just so that I can physically tear it to pieces.
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I checked your tags, you wrote a fic with her in it. Therefore you're mildly knowledgeable about her.
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I watch that movie so many times as a kid it's not funny. Ah, the memories! *_*
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