I think I saw this advertised in
game_thrones yesterday, though it took me until now to get off my butt and sign up for it.
We Love the Women That the Fandom Hates is what it sounds like: a celebration of female characters who come in for their undue share of fannish vitriol
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(SO MANY META-ISH FEELINGS ON ANNIE. I think a lot of our meta-ish feelings on her align, though. And I frown hard at those casual fan friends, because I adore Annie and will stan for her unto the death.)
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What ticks me off is when the whole "strong female character" thing comes into play when people talk about Katniss, and the idea that the trauma Katniss suffers over the course of the series makes her weak and whiny, or deprives her of agency. (I put "strong female character" in quotes because the common fannish definition of it seems to be "a woman with no flaws whatsoever." Which makes for a boring female character, if you ask me.) I've noticed people look at Katniss, look at her survival skills and combat prowess, and think that's all that counts as strength where she's concerned. There's this expectation that ( ... )
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I'm a very, very, very emotional person, and I have trouble with things and people and characters that don't immediately feel empathetic and stir up my emotions and ~make me feel in my heart. And I've always thought Katniss was a smart character in terms of writing, but as a person, to the extent that she is, I didn't get it. I didn't like her, I didn't feel worse for her than anyone else, etc ( ... )
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I found the glimpses of other characters talking about her to be really interesting in this regard.
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