LOLZ! BE VERY AFRAID, THERE'S ALWAYS MOAR THINKY WITH FANNISHLISS AROUND. :D
Het. I do know some writers who have no problem at all with het. My favorite het queen is azephirin --- and it's super interesting to me that most of her recent women are genderswapped boys, like girl!Johnny Weir, girl!Kirk, etc. By switching the character from boy to girl, she's able to create fantastic, nuanced woman characters, because she explores what being a girl really MEANS. The best het is like that. :)
I can almost GUARANTEE you that Slashgirls are incredibly uncomfortable with the way woman characters are portrayed. So much so that in supernatural fandom, the fans have actually been accused of internalized misogyny for their strong antagonistic reactions to the women characters on the show (though, of course, some of those critics just have legitimately high standards for women characters: BUT a show about two brothers is NEVER going to pass the Bechdel test -- how could it?) I personally have always indentified with the men characters -- I'm not Scully, I'm Mulder (or perhaps Krycek); I'm Pippin and not Arwen or Galadriel; and I'm certainly Dean rather than Bela!! :)
I like stories about women characters that don't focus too hard on their femininity. I'm not a big Joss booster, but I think his shows do a good job first building a great character and then giving her a woman's problems, instead of the other way round. (Buffy is FIRST A SLAYER, and only tangentially Angel's girlfriend or whoever's). It bothers me when characters become ESSENTIALLY a girlfriend or a mother. Ben Edlund's friends, Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, have the Venture Brothers foreground this with two great characters -- Dr. Girlfriend, now known as Dr. Mrs. the Monarch, and Molotov Cocktease. --In my humble opinion, their show does a great job mocking stereotypes by writing them large... it's the type of humor that Edlund uses all the time, and it really pisses some people off! :P
I've been HIPDEEP in supernatural fandom for several years now, so I can't even comment on what other fandoms look like right now. :)
Het. I do know some writers who have no problem at all with het. My favorite het queen is azephirin --- and it's super interesting to me that most of her recent women are genderswapped boys, like girl!Johnny Weir, girl!Kirk, etc. By switching the character from boy to girl, she's able to create fantastic, nuanced woman characters, because she explores what being a girl really MEANS. The best het is like that. :)
I can almost GUARANTEE you that Slashgirls are incredibly uncomfortable with the way woman characters are portrayed. So much so that in supernatural fandom, the fans have actually been accused of internalized misogyny for their strong antagonistic reactions to the women characters on the show (though, of course, some of those critics just have legitimately high standards for women characters: BUT a show about two brothers is NEVER going to pass the Bechdel test -- how could it?) I personally have always indentified with the men characters -- I'm not Scully, I'm Mulder (or perhaps Krycek); I'm Pippin and not Arwen or Galadriel; and I'm certainly Dean rather than Bela!! :)
I like stories about women characters that don't focus too hard on their femininity. I'm not a big Joss booster, but I think his shows do a good job first building a great character and then giving her a woman's problems, instead of the other way round. (Buffy is FIRST A SLAYER, and only tangentially Angel's girlfriend or whoever's). It bothers me when characters become ESSENTIALLY a girlfriend or a mother. Ben Edlund's friends, Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, have the Venture Brothers foreground this with two great characters -- Dr. Girlfriend, now known as Dr. Mrs. the Monarch, and Molotov Cocktease. --In my humble opinion, their show does a great job mocking stereotypes by writing them large... it's the type of humor that Edlund uses all the time, and it really pisses some people off! :P
I've been HIPDEEP in supernatural fandom for several years now, so I can't even comment on what other fandoms look like right now. :)
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