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Because these women are awesome.
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dsudis:
So I was adding some new interests to my LJ profile (because I, uh... have some new interests. Yes.) and found myself feeling defensive every time I typed a female name, thinking, basically, FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME, because I felt as if someone somewhere was going to be criticizing my love for them.
So, anyway, then I made a list of women who make me want to say FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME. They are far from the only women who are awesome, or the only women people need to be told to step off of, but they are the top ten I feel that way about, right now, off the top of my head.
If you want to argue with me about the awesomeness of any of these women, I am afraid I will simply be referring you to the subject line. THAT IS ALL.
In not particular order. Mostly.
1. Sam Carter
2. Dana Scully
3. Rose Tyler
4. Elizabeth Weir
5. Jennifer Keller
6. Temperance Brennan
7. Gwen Cooper
8. Helen Magnus
9. Sara Sidle
10. Kara Thrace
11. Laura Roslin
12. Martha Jones
13. Alison Cameron
14. Vala Mal Doran
15. Sarah Jane Smith
16. Sam Nixon
17. Beth Green
18. Tru Davies
19. Donna Noble
20. Kathryn Janeway
But just to say:
What I've never quite understood about hatin' characters in televisions is that the characters make the shows. If you take out a character, you take out a lot more than just the person. You take away the interactions of that character, everyone else. And therefore it changes how the characters left interact with one another in the long run because they've not learnt or been influence by the character you've taken away at all. Imagine SG-1 without Sam. It would be a completely different programme. No Tok'ra, no genius, no Tanith, so much would be different, those three guys would react differently around each other without Sam, or with a different person/woman on the team.
I mean SGA is a completely different programme without Elizabeth in charge isn't it. Just like SG-1 was different when Jack left and we got Cam. And different isn't bad, I'm just saying, people love, adore a programme but hate the characters that make the programme what it is, in the form they love it in.
It just doesn't make sense to me. And okay, I don't like every character in every programme. Actually, in The Bill, there are a lot of characters I can't stand. But it would be a different programme. And it's the passion with which people hate certain characters. The zeal, energy and effort people put into a character they don't like. When they really could be putting that energy into saving the world or hell, the pairing they do like.
Surely this makes sense to someone other than me.
Anyway.
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dsudis:So I was adding some new interests to my LJ profile (because I, uh... have some new interests. Yes.) and found myself feeling defensive every time I typed a female name, thinking, basically, FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME, because I felt as if someone somewhere was going to be criticizing my love for them.
So, anyway, then I made a list of women who make me want to say FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME. They are far from the only women who are awesome, or the only women people need to be told to step off of, but they are the top ten I feel that way about, right now, off the top of my head.
If you want to argue with me about the awesomeness of any of these women, I am afraid I will simply be referring you to the subject line. THAT IS ALL.
In not particular order. Mostly.
1. Sam Carter
2. Dana Scully
3. Rose Tyler
4. Elizabeth Weir
5. Jennifer Keller
6. Temperance Brennan
7. Gwen Cooper
8. Helen Magnus
9. Sara Sidle
10. Kara Thrace
11. Laura Roslin
12. Martha Jones
13. Alison Cameron
14. Vala Mal Doran
15. Sarah Jane Smith
16. Sam Nixon
17. Beth Green
18. Tru Davies
19. Donna Noble
20. Kathryn Janeway
But just to say:
What I've never quite understood about hatin' characters in televisions is that the characters make the shows. If you take out a character, you take out a lot more than just the person. You take away the interactions of that character, everyone else. And therefore it changes how the characters left interact with one another in the long run because they've not learnt or been influence by the character you've taken away at all. Imagine SG-1 without Sam. It would be a completely different programme. No Tok'ra, no genius, no Tanith, so much would be different, those three guys would react differently around each other without Sam, or with a different person/woman on the team.
I mean SGA is a completely different programme without Elizabeth in charge isn't it. Just like SG-1 was different when Jack left and we got Cam. And different isn't bad, I'm just saying, people love, adore a programme but hate the characters that make the programme what it is, in the form they love it in.
It just doesn't make sense to me. And okay, I don't like every character in every programme. Actually, in The Bill, there are a lot of characters I can't stand. But it would be a different programme. And it's the passion with which people hate certain characters. The zeal, energy and effort people put into a character they don't like. When they really could be putting that energy into saving the world or hell, the pairing they do like.
Surely this makes sense to someone other than me.
Anyway.
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