We’re Losing All Our Strong Female Characters To Trinity Syndrome

[Winchester]

Those points are too simple for me. The characters are too simple for me. She does not exemplify anything meaningful other than she loves her sister and understands her sister is cray and probably shouldn't have random people around. 

Maybe if you spent less time bitching about other people's work and more time writing, you could accomplish the goal for yourself.

[CrossCuT]

Maybe if you spent less time speaking with an unpleasant disposition about other people's work and more time writing, you could accomplish the goal for yourself.

 

 

 

I was also referring to the reasons they gave..,I was expecting such a dry response. 

Nihil offered me something I could mull over, and I appreciated it. 

Edited July 8, 2014 by CrossCuT

[Anastasia13]

I don't see what is the big deal if a woman character needs a little saving every now and then. We all need a helping hand every now and then. I think that is the bigger point. Even women helping women is a normal part of life (as long as we aren't competing for the same man).

 

I like traditional gender roles. I'm a also chick who believes every woman should own a hammer and a screw driver and know something about basic car maintenance.

 

In the movie The Jane Austin Book Club the only thing one woman is saved from is only saved from a man by her desire to be so strong and independent that she misses out on romantic love.

[Lil Red]

http://www.pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/funny-Frozen-Disney-movies-did-it-before-1.jpg

 

cool story bro

[Winchester]

Everyone in this thread needs to read Regine Pernoud. 

[Perigrina]

Everyone in this thread needs to read Regine Pernoud. 

 

I just googled her.  Does that count?

[God the Father]

women: even when it's all about us, it's not all about us enough.

[Semper Catholic]

women: even when it's all about us, it's not all about us enough.

I know right? We need some more middle aged white male characters.

[Anastasia13]

Legally Blonde had a strong female character.

The Devil Wears Prada had a strong female character.

Because I said so had a strong female character.

Edited July 9, 2014 by Light and Truth

[Credo in Deum]

Ellie Fredricksen

 

[John Ryan]

I don't see what is the big deal if a woman character needs a little saving every now and then. We all need a helping hand every now and then. I think that is the bigger point. Even women helping women is a normal part of life (as long as we aren't competing for the same man).

 

I like traditional gender roles. I'm a also chick who believes every woman should own a hammer and a screw driver and know something about basic car maintenance.

 

In the movie The Jane Austin Book Club the only thing one woman is saved from is only saved from a man by her desire to be so strong and independent that she misses out on romantic love.

 

I tend to believe that too many feminists reify macho-masculinity as the ideal type and then criticize females (and female portrayals) that do not live up to that ideal type. My point is to criticize that macho-masculinity as a patriarchal aberration and with then Joseph Ratzinger say:

 

"It is appropriate however to recall that the feminine values mentioned here are above all human values: the human condition of man and woman created in the image of God is one and indivisible. It is only because women are more immediately attuned to these values that they are the reminder and the privileged sign of such values. But, in the final analysis, every human being, man or woman, is destined to be “for the other”. In this perspective, that which is called “femininity” is more than simply an attribute of the female sex. The word designates indeed the fundamental human capacity to live for the other and because of the other"

 

—Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World

Edited July 9, 2014 by John Ryan

[chrysostom]

Honestly some of my favourite female "characters" are some of the women I know.  They have human struggles but they're strong in character and intelligence and passion.  Some wouldn't fit the worldly standard of "strong" but they are much stronger than I am. 

 

One friend G was criticized at her women's college for liking cooking because it was too "heteronormative".  What stupidity!  She does what she likes, she's extremely witty, smart, and hard-working, and she's wise to boot.  Let her be her own strong woman, not the cardboard variety that is apparently in fashion!

 

Another example: A dear friend C, who is especially devoted to the Virgin Mary, has a heart of service that I wish I had and pursues the Little Way as easy as breathing. The strength of her love for God is palpable in her love for her neighbour. She definitely doesn't fit the "strong" stereotype.  But her kindness is a strength little valued or even seen as strength.  Would that I were strong like that!  And is not that the strength that we should all desire?  The strongest men I know - priests, in fact - have this same strength of charity and self-giving.  It's magnetic and it's wonderful.

 

I guess I wish there were more movie characters who exemplified this.  (:

[John Ryan]

One friend G was criticized at her women's college for liking cooking because it was too "heteronormative". 

 

Because gay people don't cook? Haha...  :smile3:

[Gabriela]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF6sAAMb4s

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8JuizIXw8

 

 

[Socrates]

Oh My Gosh!  There's insufficient radical feminism in Hollywood movies!

 

No doubt Big Oil's behind this.

I think Congress needs to pass some bills to fix this terrible crisis immediately!

(And if Congress won't act, then, by golly, Obama should!)

Edited July 10, 2014 by Socrates