As a matter of fact, I do have a magical effing library

[mcjulie]

So, I read this thing on Tumblr about why a particular blogger over there doesn't like female characters, and she got quite self-righteous about her right to dislike them, and I started to feel all ranty, and this is the result.

Comments

[molly_may]

Seriously, what genre is she reading in? I work in a bookstore, and when I look at the scifi and fantasy sections, I see a lot of female characters and female authors. In a post-Katniss and (sigh) Bella world, the Teen section is popping with female protagonists, and while yeah, a number of them might be considered cookie cutter attempts to replicate the success of The Hunger Games or Twilight, there's also a lot of original, exciting voices out there. Then if you want to get into non-speculative fiction, again, there's a ton of great writers out there, writing diverse, interesting women.

Even Superhero comics have The X-Men and the Avengers, both of which have several female characters, Wonder Woman of course, Batgirl, etc. I would agree that it's probably more of a challenge to find really rich female characterization in superhero books, but I genuinely think that there are characters out there for anyone who wants to find them.

My guess is that she just prefers male characters, which would be fine if she didn't try to wrap it up in an argument suggesting that all female characters suck and/or only deal with sexism.

[mcjulie]

Seriously, what genre is she reading in?

Your guess is as good as mine! But the only characters she mentions by name are Superman vs Wonderwoman.

Edit:
My guess is that she just prefers male characters, which would be fine if she didn't try to wrap it up in an argument suggesting that all female characters suck and/or only deal with sexism.

The attempt to take a personal preference and turn it into some sort of grand, unifying, and above all objective theory of art is one of my pet peeves.