fictional women in fandom

[escritoireazul]

I am trying to gather my thoughts on some very interesting discussions (and kphoebe, I think you'd have some things to say about these, too), but I'm so far into my writing I can't shake the plots from my head. Instead I'll collect the links here and try to come back to them later.

These are just in the order I found them, not necessarily the order they were written or any other order, for that matter.

twinkledru expands on her thoughts on femslash and whether women are underrepresented in western media (which was actually sparked off by her shorter post why is femslash the redheaded stepchild of fandom?). She makes a lot of good points, and then in response to both posts, there are dozens of thoughtful and thought-provoking comments.

Edited to Add: twinkledru has a follow-up post.

inlovewithnight talks about her favorite female characters and if her favorites aren't the women who carry the physically strong label, does that mean she doesn't like strong women?

fox1013 asks what makes a female character interesting, and what people think some female characters are missing which makes them less likeable.

And there it is, the conversations which are starting to distract me from my writing, but the writing has to come first.

Why does the thoughtful mood fox look so upset? Thinking is good.

Comments

[cadence-k.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for these links! I really enjoyed the first and really look forward to the others. Except I have to go write fic first :)

Wow, I love good meta/rants about femslash...