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So I had this entire grumpy post, and now I do not.
This is why.
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thefourthvine sees girls lining up to watch the three AM premiere of the movie Eclipse.
I wish this could be handed out on embossed cards. And not just to teenage girls.
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This is why.
thefourthvine sees girls lining up to watch the three AM premiere of the movie Eclipse.Oh, and girls? Please don't laugh along with people you think are laughing at you. Nothing you're doing is stupid or embarrassing. You care about something. You love something. It's important to you, and that makes it valuable. If people think that's funny? Please, please: just tell them to go fuck themselves.
I wish this could be handed out on embossed cards. And not just to teenage girls.
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I understand porntestpilot's point
Pop culture *does* seem to be offering more girls who are defined by their romantic attachments and less by self-confidence, competence, and independence. Bella is the poster child for this, and I can understand why people find that... problematic. I'm not sure what to make of it myself, since the fans just seem to be enjoying the OTT romance *without* necessarily internalizing Bella's moody mopey co-dependence.
And it's not just that Bella is a bad role model; it's that she doesn't have much competition for the position.
Up to a couple years ago, valiant and powerful women were all over the place. There was Starbuck and Six and Laura Roslin; there was Zoe from Firefly, the metas from Birds of Prey, and practically every female on BtVS and Angel; Ivanova and Delenn from B5, Kira and Rho from DS9 and Janeway on Voyager.
What happened?
Where are today's female heroes? Where are the women who take control of their own destiny; who are fearless and adventurous and heroic? Are they no longer interesting? no longer relevant?
I'm not hating on Twilight. I'm just saddened that Twilight seems to be all there *is*.
Re: I understand porntestpilot's point
Up to a couple years ago, valiant and powerful women were all over the place. There was Starbuck and Six and Laura Roslin; there was Zoe from Firefly, the metas from Birds of Prey, and practically every female on BtVS and Angel; Ivanova and Delenn from B5, Kira and Rho from DS9 and Janeway on Voyager.
Babylon 5 - ended in 1998
Battlestar Galactica - ended in 2009
Firefly - 2002, 2005
Buffy/Angel - 2003, 2004
DS9 - 1999
Voyager - 2001
That's a fairly spread out group with overlap between them. You left out first season Veronica Mars, off the top of my head, the women of Gilmore Girls (some), True Blood's Tara Thornton...
Where are today's female heroes? Where are the women who take control of their own destiny; who are fearless and adventurous and heroic? Are they no longer interesting? no longer relevant?
...I have no idea how you assume that one year since Starbuck went off the air that this is the end of strong women on television. I mean, wishing there were some on TV, yes, waiting for another good show with a strong female character, yes, but--I'm not quite ready to lower the flag to half-mast.
I'm not hating on Twilight. I'm just saddened that Twilight seems to be all there *is*.
Well, you sort of are, otherwise I have no idea what part of porntestpilot's rant against Twilight and apparently Stephanie Brown and Sookie you're agreeing with. I just don't see what that particularly has to do with people being openly fannish, tbh.
Re: I understand porntestpilot's point
Movies however wow just wow. Alice in Wonderland, Shrek 4, Inkheart, Sherlock Holmes (in addition to amazing slash), Zombieland, Wall-ie, Inglorious Bastards (Okay they had one for the win and one fail, but still the one that wins, really wins) and lots of others.