{"id":4960,"date":"2013-08-16T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2013-08-16T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T12:44:31","slug":"response-i-hate-strong-female-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Response: “I Hate Strong Female Characters”"},"content":{"rendered":"

rachelkiley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A post came out in the NewStatesmen today by Sophia McDougall called \u201cI Hate Strong Female Characters<\/a>.\u201d A lot of you may have already seen it. It\u2019s been shared by lots of people I know, I\u2019ve seen links from several sources show up on my dash, and I RTed<\/a> it myself<\/a> earlier today.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend you read it for yourself, but the gist of it is that Hollywood has taken the call for \u201cmore strong female characters\u201d to mean that we literally want strong<\/em> female characters. That THAT is the way to combat the stereotypical female characters that have always existed in Hollywood movies (i.e. damsel in distress, sexy eye candy, etc.) and provide appropriate representation for women in films and television (though this is much more a problem you see in movies than TV). Moreover, that the public also often misinterprets the idea of wanting \u201cstrong female characters\u201d to mean this, and that male characters (protagonists in particular) are not held to this same intensely literal meaning when categorized as strong male characters. Male protagonists are allowed be a number of different, varying things, and strong in ways that may not always include or highlight physical (or mental or emotional) strength. And the post also brings up perhaps the worst offense of all, that female characters categorized as SFCs are often shown displaying excessive amounts of strength or physical aggression towards men in ways that would cause us as an audience to recoil if the roles were reversed and it was a man acting that way to a woman \u2014 the reason being that the audience assumes (or the people behind the film assume the audience assumes) the female character is \u201cweak\u201d until it is unequivocally proven otherwise, something the male characters don\u2019t have to prove.<\/p>\n

The article really covers everything, and I agree with it so very much, but this is something I\u2019ve been thinking about incessantly for the past year or two, both in my writing and in watching things, so I\u2019m gonna talk about it because it\u2019s my tumblr and I want to.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Excellent response to the ‘Strong Female Characters’ article I linked to a while past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

rachelkiley: A post came out in the NewStatesmen today by Sophia McDougall called \u201cI Hate Strong Female Characters.\u201d A lot of you may have already seen it. It\u2019s been shared by lots of people I know, I\u2019ve seen links from several sources show up on my dash, and I RTed it myself earlier today. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[362,3399,2106,346,131,137,565,3398,3397,429,3395,3400,3396,3401],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-character-development","tag-characters","tag-feminism","tag-lbd","tag-lydia","tag-movies","tag-plot","tag-sfc","tag-strength","tag-strong-female-characters","tag-the-lizzie-bennet-diaries","tag-weak-female-characters","tag-weakness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}