FUCK YOU! She's awesome!

[allira_dream]

GROSSGROSSGROSSSOFUCKINGSTUPIDRAGEAAAAAAAAAH.I. I don't have the words to express how much RAGE this causes me. So instead of raging, it's been a while since my last 'FUCK YOU! She's awesome!' meme

Comments

[buddha_loves_me]

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.

[allira_dream]

I just.

DYING. DYING MEANS YOU'RE NOT STRONG. I just. I JUST.

THERE ARE NO WORDS.

[buddha_loves_me]

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.

[allira_dream]

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'.

JUST. NO.

[berseker]

ARIADNE

[allira_dream]

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.

She's patient. She will make it work.

[berseker]

Eeeeeeeh ♥♥♥ I love it. Ariadne is so focused and serious and fricking AWESOME.

[allira_dream]

SHE IS. Oh, my crush on her, let me show you it *_*

[fujurpreux]

...So, how does the chart's author go from "doesn't have flaws" to all the stereotypes and how is Azula sexualized? o.o

[fujurpreux]

Oh, and now that I mentioned her (I got stuck there, I don't want to read any further), gimme Azula?

[fujurpreux]

...also it seems that being in a committed relationship is bad. I'm so. Confused '___' /closes the damn tab

[solesakuma]

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.

[solesakuma]

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.

[allira_dream]

EXACTLY. One of the things I've always been sort of frowny in Enchanted is the fact that the fiancée was completely nice!

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.

[solesakuma]

The essay makes some interesting point, though, and ironically enough, *uses the same examples*... but as GOOD ones

[solesakuma]

Oh, and for characters... Amy from Who.

[anarchicq]

....Toph.
I checked your tags, you wrote a fic with her in it. Therefore you're mildly knowledgeable about her.

[fujurpreux]

OMG YOU HAVE A FLIGHT OF DRAGONS ICON *___*

[anarchicq]

BREYOG LAUGHS AT YOUR SQUEE AND WILL EAT ALL YOUR EGGS!

[fujurpreux]

I DON'T CARE AS LONG AS I CAN SQUEE. OR I CAN JUST ADMIRE HIM IN SILENCE. OR SOMETHING.

I watch that movie so many times as a kid it's not funny. Ah, the memories! *_*