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[kaikias]

One challenge, now, is to begin to see men as "same" and women as "other" as well as the other way around, depending on other, more important factors in their personalities. To stop automatically identifying with the women in songs and folktales. To stop automatically leaping to the defense of women, but rather try and take a look at all sides of

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[tansu]

Seeing people as people and seeing women as people aren't so very opposed.

To be honest, and you'll totally hate me for being a smug bastard, I'm always surprised that people do automatically identify with the same sex characters in songs and stories.

Anyway. I like what you're doing. Go you! Onnea! Forza!

[nightstalker]

I identified very strongly with the "Lady of Shalott" as a teenager.

But all the characters I wanted to be like were male, now that I think about it.

[kaikias]

Smug bastard. :P

It probably doesn't help that in a lot of my favorites, the female protagonists are kick-ass and getting one back against the person or society that wronged them.

[kaikias]

That's...interesting. In the circles I run in, "patriarchy hurts men too" is very nearly a cliche.

[kaikias]

Well, 25 years of "you are female, therefore the female characters are like you and the male characters are not" is going to be a bit of work to overcome.

[dimloep_suum]

I was just talking about this the other day with some friends. We were discussing Disney villains, and I said until Aladdin came out, I wanted to be Ursula from The Little Mermaid; then I kinda wanted to be Jafar.