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[lady_ganesh]

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[kansan_entrails]

The "YOU FAIL" icon is very appropriate. XD I have a fuck ton of icons...maybe I should post them. Or maybe not.

[lady_ganesh]

It's fun! I...kind of forgot I had some of them.

[kansan_entrails]

LOL Nice.

[lady_ganesh]

This one is new...:D

[robowolf]

I assumed "Yoko Ono" meant the "breaks up the band" kind of character, not the woman herself. Although having read up on John Lennon, I personally think Ono >>>>>>> Lennon.

Also, Uhura is so not useless. It's not her fault Shatner was such an attention hog that all the good stuff went to him or sometimes Nimoy and Kelly; nothing ever really gets to happen for any of the other main cast.

[rosehiptea]

Also, Uhura is so not useless.

I was really ticked off to see her on that chart.

Not that I really bought into the chart in the first place.

[robowolf]

If it were just a tropes chart, it'd be kinda spot on in a lot of places ("does she get an abortion?" --> "haha of course she doesn't" - SOB), but the part where she implies that all of these are not STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS...conforming to a few tropes != not a strong character.

Also, Azula is sexualized? Um. And I don't know if I'd call the mom from Arrested Development a villain. It's not really a show with a villain...

[rosehiptea]

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that Azula is not sexualized.

I'm kind of wondering who is left over when you get rid of all the female characters who conform to tropes.

[nina_vendredi]

I have an unfortunate lack of women in my icons. I believe I will fix that this weekend.

[lady_ganesh]

I had more than I thought I would, which made me happy.

[jaina]

I gave that chart a "lol no" when I saw Azula on there. Apparently she's not sufficiently layered and nuanced.

[lady_ganesh]

And as I've said in other places, I think we should reserve "Hitler" as a descriptor for Hitler.

[jaina]

A+ comment

[lady_ganesh]

Newsflash: Genocide is not just the realm of German assholes!

[gaisce]

I had a moment of confusion just looking at the flowchart and going "okay I can see how some of the tropes come off awkward but eh" and then I noticed it was apparently judging "one and two dimensional characters," countering any of the others listed were not strong female characters and I just. What. By what standard is this person basing it on, how they were formatted? Because that's the only way I can see them coming off. Otherwise why would you list Usagi, Ripley, Hit Girl, Harley Quinn, Azula, Dorothy from the blessed bastion of female awesome Golden Girls, Angelica, Faye Valentine--DO THEY EVEN KNOW HOW STUPIDLY COMPLICATED MYSTIQUE'S MOTIVES AND LOYALTIES ARE?

Do her fictional females need to be able to tesseract before they are qualified as worthy of being multidimensional?

[lady_ganesh]

THERE WERE TWO GOLDEN GIRLS ON THERE did they ever watch the fucking SHOW?

Apparently! Backward and in heels....

[gaisce]

Everything about this chart is awful. I didn't even notice how they included real women and the terms like Hitler and Noble S--word which is somehow more offensive than Savage. Ugh.

Urge to essay...rising...

[lady_ganesh]

And they called an Asian girl 'vanilla'! SO CLASSY.