Scarpia, avanti a Dio!

[incandescens]

The Strong Female Character has something to prove. She’s on the defensive before she even starts. She’s George from The Famous Five all grown up and still bleating with the same desperate lack of conviction that she’s “Every Bit As Good as a Boy”.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/i-hate-strong-female-characters

Sadly true.

I also need to work out which act of Tosca is most appropriate for dramatic byplay in an opera box. (I know Tosca was first performed in 1900, but hey.)

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Hm! (I tend to prefer "has a lot of agency" as my personal definition, but I definitely see this. Also, the over-the-top behavior of the token, "no, really, strong, honest, would these Media glasses lie to you" so-called-strong female character... Yeah...)

Hmph. I'm left nodding my head and going, "I have feels for this!"

Thanks!

[incandescens]

My pleasure.

I know we both know plenty of counter-examples in our preferred media, but let's face it, there are too many of these token "strong female characters" around.

(hugs Full Metal Alchemist, which she was recently rereading, for examples of strong female characters in a better sense of the term)

[archangelbeth]

*nodnodnod*

And in FMA, the over-the-top female characters... are just as over-the-top as the over-the-top male ones, methinks?

[incandescens]

THIS OVER-THE-TOPNESS HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN IN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY LINE FOR GENERATIONS!