They’re strong independent women who want some lovin’ too
As a fandom dweller since ’05, I’ve lurked the depths of LiveJournal and FanForum.com, jumped from one fixation to another, and seen my fair share of “gates.” But nothing may be as jarring as my knee-jerk reaction when coming across the term “strong female character.” Typically used as a misnomer forof a weapon-wielding woman, whose dialogues are made up of snappy comebacks and a stoic regard for those around her.
Maybe it’s time we stop hindering the female gaze, and confining their desires in a tightly closed box to let it shrivel away in shame. “So, male superheroes could have Lois Lane. They can have love, they can have vulnerability, they can have complexity. But women superheroes or strong women characters had to be, ‘I don’t need anyone, I’m the toughest person in the world.’ That’s not fair to anybody. No human being is an island like that,” Patty Jenkins [director of Wonder Woman] explains.Superheroes get the girl. It seems like a natural part of their narrative.
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