angry feminist time!

[annwyd]

Do I really have to explain why a flowchart labeling all the ways female characters can be unacceptable and inadequate does not belong on a feminist blog? Really

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[joiedecombat]

Aaaaargh.

I just - cannot even begin to articulate the ways in which this pisses me off.

[annwyd]

I can...begin! But only begin. After that I descend into flailing.

[parasaurolophus]

Looks more like a TV Tropes flowchart than anything feminist. It's using all their categories.

[annwyd]

Except, of course, for the "Tropes Are Not Bad" category. Funny, that.

[ruxi]

I guess the chart-maker needs to learn the difference between "has an attribute" and "is defined by that attribute, to the exclusion of any other personality trait ever."

[nursemette]

iawtc

[annwyd]

But that would get in the way of trashing female characters!

[annwyd]

I don't deny that sexism informs the way female characters are created and presented, but this chart proves rather conclusively that it also informs the way they're received.

[fiddlersgreen]

I think there's probably a good premise buried in there somewhere, but, ironically not unlike the stereotypical characters it's trying to decry, the chart is poorly realized and not well-thought-out.

Also, because I am a nerd, the character they have as the illustration of the Evil Woman Without A Family is Mom from Futurama. Who HAS A FREAKING FAMILY.

[nursemette]

Which I noted as well and facedesked at.

[annwyd]

I understand the desire to point out how mainstream media is sexist and this is often reflected in the presentation of female characters in it, but...yeah. Making a chart that defines a vast myriad of ways in which female characters can Fail and including (inaccurate) examples is not a good way of going about it. Or, really, of doing anything but being flamebait.