I love a really good well-rounded queer villain, one who's smart and who's cruel without being petty (or at least without seeming so). I love a woman with intimacy issues who doesn't really know how to talk about her feelings and who tends to be very guarded about showing strong emotion. I love a really hardcore Mama Bear. I love it when a story shows a woman who's a capable leader.
A trope that needs to die in a fire: the woman who's drunk on power and has become dangerous. Also the unwritten rule that if you're a feminine female character, even if you're involved in a physical fight with someone, you won't ever actually throw a punch. Especially not if your combatant is relatively masculine compared with you. Also, as a visibly queer woman who's just naturally a fairly quiet and reserved person, I'd like to see a little less of the lesbian who's only gay because she's had bad luck with men or been sexually assaulted or something. Because I can tell you from experience, people are dumb enough to buy that shit as an accurate depiction of what lesbians are really like, and it's extremely annoying.
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Date: 2011-08-07 03:47 pm (UTC)A trope that needs to die in a fire: the woman who's drunk on power and has become dangerous. Also the unwritten rule that if you're a feminine female character, even if you're involved in a physical fight with someone, you won't ever actually throw a punch. Especially not if your combatant is relatively masculine compared with you. Also, as a visibly queer woman who's just naturally a fairly quiet and reserved person, I'd like to see a little less of the lesbian who's only gay because she's had bad luck with men or been sexually assaulted or something. Because I can tell you from experience, people are dumb enough to buy that shit as an accurate depiction of what lesbians are really like, and it's extremely annoying.