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On Hating Female Characters.

For a while now I’ve been thinking about how many readers seem to hate female characters more than they hate male. Or rather that the same behaviour from a male character is okay but someone inexcusable in a female.


NO KIDDING. I read and enjoyed this post a while back, but a link popped up on my flist, and I returned to it and decided in light of some recent comments I'd read that it needs to be sung from the rooftops.

She also has a very good post here: The Advantages of Being a White Writer Highly recommended.

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Posted on Nov. 3rd, 2009 at 03:32 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]randomsome1

Oh, look, she's all about Boodith too. The thieving piece of trash really is like sand.
Chances she wrote a magical farm in upstate NY for inhuman-looking paranormal critters as a response to Boodith just went up exponentially. Fuck.
Posted on Nov. 4th, 2009 01:24 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]shiegra

Boodith?
Posted on Nov. 4th, 2009 04:14 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]randomsome1

Cassie Cla(i)re, the plagiarist/collage artist with god-awful plothole-riddled hamfisted-foreshadowed urpleicious prose to rival Meyer's.

This actually throws my reading of Liar into a whole 'nother light. If the upstate farm for non-humans in Liar is a nod to JL's best-loved writerly buddeh Clare and not an allusion to the graphic novel Fables, which Clare stole a number of points from (including said farm), then things change greatly.
Posted on Nov. 4th, 2009 04:04 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]shiegra

Oh, bleurgh. Didn't notice that bit.
Posted on Nov. 4th, 2009 06:06 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]randomsome1

Don't think I brought it up (because I don't like talking about her, she depresses me) but I had two younger readers within a week tell me that Clare ripped Meyer off, even.
Posted on Nov. 4th, 2009 06:11 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]shiegra

I...I can't muster up sympathy for her, since she in turn ripped off others. The most I can come up with is, 'scraping the bottom of the barrel, isn't she?' And deep contempt.
Posted on Nov. 5th, 2009 01:11 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]randomsome1

This is both why I need to finish a book and why I keep holding myself back--because the YA section is a gigantic incestuous circle-jerk & because I'm ashamed of it.
Posted on Nov. 5th, 2009 01:30 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply