I've been pondering all the ways girls and women are seeing female protagonists they can relate to: strong, capable and accepting their call to adventure, and how often boys and men are treated as set-pieces in those stories.
I get that this is correcting an imbalance. I celebrate stories that are giving women glimmers of their potential.
But if women know the cost of hollow, cardboard-cut-out representation, are they really comfortable with boys and men being treated this way?
@sumpnlikefaith
Should have quit before the word, "But."
@sumpnlikefaith
Because every word after undermines your previously worded support.
@ArcturusSaDiablo No, I don't think it does.
I want this cultural revolution for men, too. I want men to be invited to live into their complex, complicated, intellectual and emotional realities just as fully as women are being invited to.
I want characters who model this for men just as much as I want characters who model this for women (and I want this for non-binary and trans people, too.)
I think it's a profound cultural failing that this is perceived as an either/or.
@ArcturusSaDiablo Why?