I don't know... Maybe I'm strange for thinking this, but I can't really see what's so empowering in the action of writing a perfect female character. So, I write this character who is attractive, strong, has MENSA-level intelligence, plays seven different musical instruments, speaks ten languages fluently, makes everyone around her like her and can solve any problem perfectly. ... How does that empower me as the author? I'm not that character. I'm still homely, mousy, overweight old me. ]=
Still, I like the homely, mousy, overweight (... well, maybe not that part XD) old me much better than I would like a character like that. If I made a character like that, I would probably end up making it so that her hands would show signs of years of practicing the musical instruments, and she'd constantly mix up the ten languages she knew, and try to pass it off as if she was just showing off. She would also be very arrogant, due to the constant adoration from the people around her, and the fact that she considers herself to be more intelligent than the rest of the world, since (in her mind) she ends up having to solve all problems around her on her own. Still, she needs all the attention she gets, because to her, it's a measurement of her own awesomeness.
... Excuse me, I'm off to write a character sheet and properly work out how this one could work. XD; I kind of went off on a tangent there.
Too bad I couldn't read the entire essay (I think it would probably have made my brain implode). The quoted parts were enough for now. I don't understand the way some people think. I guess some people just want to see persecution in everything around them.
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Date: 2010-08-16 02:49 pm (UTC)Still, I like the homely, mousy, overweight (... well, maybe not that part XD) old me much better than I would like a character like that. If I made a character like that, I would probably end up making it so that her hands would show signs of years of practicing the musical instruments, and she'd constantly mix up the ten languages she knew, and try to pass it off as if she was just showing off.
She would also be very arrogant, due to the constant adoration from the people around her, and the fact that she considers herself to be more intelligent than the rest of the world, since (in her mind) she ends up having to solve all problems around her on her own. Still, she needs all the attention she gets, because to her, it's a measurement of her own awesomeness.
... Excuse me, I'm off to write a character sheet and properly work out how this one could work. XD; I kind of went off on a tangent there.
Too bad I couldn't read the entire essay (I think it would probably have made my brain implode). The quoted parts were enough for now. I don't understand the way some people think. I guess some people just want to see persecution in everything around them.