I know what you mean. And the worst part is, if you look hard enough at ANYTHING, you could find evil implications in it.
Take, for example, female characters. It seems like these days if a female character has any sort of love interest or is at all close to a male character (friend or relative), it nullifies anything useful she might do because hey, it implies that women can only be tough to protect their kids/save their husband/fight alongside their boyfriend. And then there's the argument that if a girl does something remotely "girly" like cooking or sewing, it's also a horrible blow to feminism. It doesn't matter if it's only one part of her personality or if it's something she *has* to do (cooking because she lives alone, for example).
On the flip side though, if there's a female character that kicks men in the nuts and is a jerk to everyone, it leaves the implication that all women are psychos who are permanently PMS-ing and aren't capable of being rational or thoughtful.
Or heck, look at Allecto's stupid arguments about Firefly. When a black person was a villain, she called racism. When a black person was a protagonist, she also called racism because he was helping a white guy and thus was an "Uncle Tom". Right.
"On the other hand Bella IS a bad rolemodel because she supposed to be a rolemodel. Not sure if Edward is supposed to be a rolemodel and since no one judges male characters anyway (and a large part of her fanbase is crazy) it doesn't trigger anything in people."
Bella, yes, in the worst possible way. Apparently people have argued that she's some sort of liberated woman because she badgers Edward for sex in "Breaking Dawn". Granted, it's the most assertive she is, but it's still uncomfortable and once he puts out, she doesn't want to do anything else. And in a way, yes I think Edward was meant to be a role model of sorts, if only because Meyer wrote him and all but said "See him? He's the Ideal Man. He's the sort of guy that every woman ought to go for". So we get a bunch of idiot girls who moon over this guy. And then, we get some guys who are told "Why don't you be more like Edward", and...yeah.
"In the end it's all very scary to me. I just wanna see characters as characters and I feel this kinda stuff gets in the way of my enjoyment of thing. [sigh]"
I know what you mean. Seriously, sit back and enjoy things, for heaven's sake!
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Date: 2010-12-19 03:52 am (UTC)Take, for example, female characters. It seems like these days if a female character has any sort of love interest or is at all close to a male character (friend or relative), it nullifies anything useful she might do because hey, it implies that women can only be tough to protect their kids/save their husband/fight alongside their boyfriend. And then there's the argument that if a girl does something remotely "girly" like cooking or sewing, it's also a horrible blow to feminism. It doesn't matter if it's only one part of her personality or if it's something she *has* to do (cooking because she lives alone, for example).
On the flip side though, if there's a female character that kicks men in the nuts and is a jerk to everyone, it leaves the implication that all women are psychos who are permanently PMS-ing and aren't capable of being rational or thoughtful.
Or heck, look at Allecto's stupid arguments about Firefly. When a black person was a villain, she called racism. When a black person was a protagonist, she also called racism because he was helping a white guy and thus was an "Uncle Tom". Right.
"On the other hand Bella IS a bad rolemodel because she supposed to be a rolemodel. Not sure if Edward is supposed to be a rolemodel and since no one judges male characters anyway (and a large part of her fanbase is crazy) it doesn't trigger anything in people."
Bella, yes, in the worst possible way. Apparently people have argued that she's some sort of liberated woman because she badgers Edward for sex in "Breaking Dawn". Granted, it's the most assertive she is, but it's still uncomfortable and once he puts out, she doesn't want to do anything else. And in a way, yes I think Edward was meant to be a role model of sorts, if only because Meyer wrote him and all but said "See him? He's the Ideal Man. He's the sort of guy that every woman ought to go for". So we get a bunch of idiot girls who moon over this guy. And then, we get some guys who are told "Why don't you be more like Edward", and...yeah.
"In the end it's all very scary to me. I just wanna see characters as characters and I feel this kinda stuff gets in the way of my enjoyment of thing. [sigh]"
I know what you mean. Seriously, sit back and enjoy things, for heaven's sake!