I just meant your typical TV female character, who worries about boys and needs to be rescued, etc. Not your atypical ass-kicking women.
Ah. I tend to drop a show if I find that the women are written purely as love interests/lust objects/rescue goals for the male characters, so I don't see them in the wild very often. I also don't watch much TV. ;)
(Though to be fair, I think you can have a well-developed, strong female character who both worries about boys and needs to be rescued sometimes--Olive on Pushing Daisies comes to mind--but it's a hell of a lot harder. Sometimes I think "ass-kicking" is becoming too stereotypical a trait for people who don't want to bother developing their female characters but are canny enough to know audiences will notice if they make them too "girly"...sorry, this wasn't directed at you; representations of women in media is kind of my hobby-horse, and I tend to ramble.)
Now I have this horrible fear that I've talked it up too much, you'll watch a few episodes and hate it, and hate Olivia. "Lies! Everything she said was a lie!"
Nooooooo! ;) I'll give it at least two DVDs worth before I bail, anyway.
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Date: 2010-09-21 04:02 pm (UTC)Ah. I tend to drop a show if I find that the women are written purely as love interests/lust objects/rescue goals for the male characters, so I don't see them in the wild very often. I also don't watch much TV. ;)
(Though to be fair, I think you can have a well-developed, strong female character who both worries about boys and needs to be rescued sometimes--Olive on Pushing Daisies comes to mind--but it's a hell of a lot harder. Sometimes I think "ass-kicking" is becoming too stereotypical a trait for people who don't want to bother developing their female characters but are canny enough to know audiences will notice if they make them too "girly"...sorry, this wasn't directed at you; representations of women in media is kind of my hobby-horse, and I tend to ramble.)
Now I have this horrible fear that I've talked it up too much, you'll watch a few episodes and hate it, and hate Olivia. "Lies! Everything she said was a lie!"
Nooooooo! ;) I'll give it at least two DVDs worth before I bail, anyway.