I mean, it's logical (which is something that frequently escapes fandom discussions). The body of fic with the largest ratio of strong female characters has something to start from. Buffy, for example, or Xena, or Voyager, or Sailor Moon, for pete's sake. Getting good female chars to play with in many fandoms is a matter of inspiration and hard work in gathering up the sops thrown and weaving them into something believable and compelling. Some fandoms have done an excellent job of this: Harry Potter, for all its myriad flaws, provides us with shreds of good female characterization dropped like chaff among the bad, with which some people pull together completely awesome Hermiones and Ginnys, etc. But one of my favorite anime series, Yami no Matsuei, gives us nothing in terms of female characters unless you happen to read the manga as well, and then one only has a few threads here and there.
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:24 pm (UTC)I mean, it's logical (which is something that frequently escapes fandom discussions). The body of fic with the largest ratio of strong female characters has something to start from. Buffy, for example, or Xena, or Voyager, or Sailor Moon, for pete's sake. Getting good female chars to play with in many fandoms is a matter of inspiration and hard work in gathering up the sops thrown and weaving them into something believable and compelling. Some fandoms have done an excellent job of this: Harry Potter, for all its myriad flaws, provides us with shreds of good female characterization dropped like chaff among the bad, with which some people pull together completely awesome Hermiones and Ginnys, etc. But one of my favorite anime series, Yami no Matsuei, gives us nothing in terms of female characters unless you happen to read the manga as well, and then one only has a few threads here and there.
Blah blah blah, sorry, didn't mean to go on.