Actually the comments weren't directed at me at all (it's too cold to be barefoot! ;) ), they were just comments I found on other blogs-of-people-I-don't-even-know, nearly all related to the portrayal of females in fiction, though one was related to women who WRITE fiction (I think that was the one that actually said "just mommys who have traded in their power" or something like that, accusing writers of refusing to write "Strong Females" because they had given up being "Strong Females" themselves). Hah, instead of Too Many Female Characters Who Settle Down To Become Mommies, this just makes me think that there aren't enough Strong Female characters who ARE mommies. Have you seen the new Indiana Jones movie yet? Anyway, in that movie I love seeing Marian, who is without a doubt a strong female character, I love seeing that SAME character as a mother-- you see how she has GROWN but you also see that she is Absolutely Still Herself, a very Strong woman who happens to be, well, a very strong mother too. There are other great unique and strong female characters out there who've embraced motherhood, usually later in a series about them-- Thursday Next is another one that comes to mind. But apparently there aren't enough of them if people still think characters ought not to settle down with BABIES.
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Date: 2009-01-22 06:54 pm (UTC)From: