*tempts you* It will give you something to use for procrastination purposes! :D
I don't know. You could be right that what the creator was intending irony, but I'm not so sure about that. I don't know if you've seen the original post (http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/10/11/female-character-flowchart/) on Overthinkingit, but from the text of that it doesn't read much like irony to me.
I think she is trying to criticise the stereotyping process in general, though. The problem isn't so much saying 'stereotypes are bad', but rather that she is confusing stereotypes with tropes, and reducing a number of really awesome, three-dimensional female characters to single characteristics and saying 'ur doin it wrong'.
It just seems like more fodder for the 'all female characters are crap, and that's why we *have* to write fics about men all the time' crowd.
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Date: 2010-10-14 03:01 pm (UTC)I don't know. You could be right that what the creator was intending irony, but I'm not so sure about that. I don't know if you've seen the original post (http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/10/11/female-character-flowchart/) on Overthinkingit, but from the text of that it doesn't read much like irony to me.
I think she is trying to criticise the stereotyping process in general, though. The problem isn't so much saying 'stereotypes are bad', but rather that she is confusing stereotypes with tropes, and reducing a number of really awesome, three-dimensional female characters to single characteristics and saying 'ur doin it wrong'.
It just seems like more fodder for the 'all female characters are crap, and that's why we *have* to write fics about men all the time' crowd.