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Discororoboros (@discoroboros) recently made a post about how nobody wrings their hands about if Harry Potter or Iron Man are Good Role Models for boys, but every last female character has to be empowered, tough, and never a victim to get the stamp of approval.

And honestly, this is a lot of what bores me about "strong female characters", or really, just female characters period these days. The man can make mistakes, be wrong, be victimized, have a breakdown, choose to prioritize family over career and still be the lead, still be a person who's story is worth telling.

But Female Characters? Female Characters must be Strong. They can't have flaws, can't make mistakes, can't be weak. And because female characters can't be wrong, can't be weak, female characters can't grow; a Strong Female Character is a static character.

A male character can model enduring suffering, or learning from his errors, or growing up. A Strong Female Character can't.
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I've got some stories that I've had sitting around for a while that are pretty much flat out PWPs and I cannot sell them for various reasons. Mostly because nobody likes noncon, underage, or incest due to legality issues (even though it is technically legal to write and publish [almost] anything in the United States because it's Free Speech.) and possibly the squik point of the general public.

So, as much as these started as my pet jerk-off stories, I can't seem to manage to write "masturbatory" stories, to put it the way my most incompetent writing prof did. She meant writing purely for one's own amusement, not sex per se, but you get the idea. I'd have to polish them a little, but I don't think it'd be too much work. I might post the oldest one up untouched so you can laugh at my jr high sex scenes.

This also brings up another question; I can think of three published authors off the top of my head who are publicly known to have written fanfiction. Presumably, this has not caused them to be sued because I'm pretty sure I would have heard about it. At this point, is there any *legal* reason keep your RL name from being associated with your fic writing activities?
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The bad news is that I couldn't watch tonight's episode of Supernatural on account of being on a stupid overnight field trip. Said field trip mostly involves going to a lot of very boring places that with shinny statues, smell of incense, have very thick carpet, and make you take your shoes off. Blerg. Religion is interesting, but at this point it's interesting as the opiate of the masses rather than for any real philosophical reasons.
If you care... )
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Ok, last semester I was forced to take Newspaper, so I had to do some articles for the blasted student paper. I got to do the national news section once, and it just happened to be for the edition right after the election, so I actually got to be the one to say that Obama won. I'm sure that'll be one for the grandkids (grandnephews more like). I'm pretty proud of that column, except there was about one word and a comma that I wanted to take out, but I guess that's not bad. Still proud of my opportunity to slant the news the way *I* thought it should go for once.
If you care... )
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Wow I haven’t been on here in a while. But I’ve been lured back… because of fanfiction. Yes, one by one my moral qualms have been worn away and by now, there isn’t that much left that I won’t do. I won’t do RPS, but even that I’m not going to stand up and scream about, because trust me, last time I did something like thatStep into my parlor )

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