Fred, for example. She's perfect and brilliant and damaged, so every man adores her and wants to take care of her. How lame.
Or maybe it's because I'm just not a typical woman
Nah, cause I hated Fred, too. And don't get me started on my "Sex and the Shallow City" rant. Women like that are what's wrong with America, dammit.
Dunno, though - I never looked to identify with characters in movies or television or books. I guess the strongest female association I had growing up was in the ultimate boy's story - "The Lord of the Rings". When Galadriel gives her speech about how "all will love me, and despair", I got goosebumps. Strong, wise, tempered...but the story wasn't about her.
Now? ::blink:: I wouldn't expect there to be a female character like me on television - I'm not exactly mainstream. Of the female characters I like (though I don't identify with), I'd name Rita Sue Dreyfuss on Carnivale (with her unashamed sexuality and her sweet if dysfunctional marriage), the protagonist from Medium, who has a good marriage but a less-than-perfect home life and is prone to self-doubt, Lilah, natch, because she is the Queen Bitch, Zhaan and Chiana on Farscape - the priestess who still fights against her violent nature but is practical enough to be violent when called for and the nonconformist con woman who can fuck or fight her way out of anything, and continually makes bad choices...of course, I don't watch much television, so my choices are pretty limited.
And apparently I miss all the kerfluffles...cause I have no clue what you're on about. :)
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Date: 2005-01-26 01:53 pm (UTC)Or maybe it's because I'm just not a typical woman
Nah, cause I hated Fred, too. And don't get me started on my "Sex and the
ShallowCity" rant. Women like that are what's wrong with America, dammit.Dunno, though - I never looked to identify with characters in movies or television or books. I guess the strongest female association I had growing up was in the ultimate boy's story - "The Lord of the Rings". When Galadriel gives her speech about how "all will love me, and despair", I got goosebumps. Strong, wise, tempered...but the story wasn't about her.
Now? ::blink:: I wouldn't expect there to be a female character like me on television - I'm not exactly mainstream. Of the female characters I like (though I don't identify with), I'd name Rita Sue Dreyfuss on Carnivale (with her unashamed sexuality and her sweet if dysfunctional marriage), the protagonist from Medium, who has a good marriage but a less-than-perfect home life and is prone to self-doubt, Lilah, natch, because she is the Queen Bitch, Zhaan and Chiana on Farscape - the priestess who still fights against her violent nature but is practical enough to be violent when called for and the nonconformist con woman who can fuck or fight her way out of anything, and continually makes bad choices...of course, I don't watch much television, so my choices are pretty limited.
And apparently I miss all the kerfluffles...cause I have no clue what you're on about. :)