I love the Awesome Women meme, and I'm seriously tempted by it (despite having failed miserably to complete the HP 30 Days meme /g/).
But about that flow chart: I've seen lots of people on LJ and DW getting really angry at it, and I'm thinking I must have misread it. I initially thought it was a highly ironic critique, a demonstration of how popular storytelling, especially in films and TV, is reductive and simplistic when it comes to depicting women (and often when depicting men, too, but that's a separate issue). I didn't see it as the author's straightforward belief about female characters. I thought she was criticizing the stereotyping, not supporting it.
But evidently my reading is significantly in the minority, so I'm willing to accept that, cynical postmodernist that I am, I see irony everywhere, even where it apparently isn't. /g/ But yes, if this chart is meant to be taken at face value, then it's depressing.
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Date: 2010-10-14 02:40 pm (UTC)But about that flow chart: I've seen lots of people on LJ and DW getting really angry at it, and I'm thinking I must have misread it.
I initially thought it was a highly ironic critique, a demonstration of how popular storytelling, especially in films and TV, is reductive and simplistic when it comes to depicting women (and often when depicting men, too, but that's a separate issue). I didn't see it as the author's straightforward belief about female characters. I thought she was criticizing the stereotyping, not supporting it.
But evidently my reading is significantly in the minority, so I'm willing to accept that, cynical postmodernist that I am, I see irony everywhere, even where it apparently isn't. /g/ But yes, if this chart is meant to be taken at face value, then it's depressing.