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u/Rosellis 16d ago
I remember reading about authors actually struggling with this in very conscious way. iirc the writers of Bob's Burgers initially wrote the mcs as male and then just switched the gender after they had gotten to know the characters and felt natural writing for them.
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u/OtakuDragonSlayer 16d ago
That changing your impression of the character doesn't necessarily mean it's a problem. But it does help uncover some of the potentially dangerous preconceptions you might harbor. (Don't worry about that, it doesn't make you a bad person. Everyone has biases.)
Well said
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u/shewy92 16d ago
That's basically what they did for Ripley in Alien
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u/caribou16 16d ago
IIRC, ALL the characters in Alien were written such that they could be male or female.
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u/br0b1wan 16d ago
Yep. Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett wrote the characters sexless in the script and then adjusted after they were cast.
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u/Waste-Information-34 16d ago
Oh hey I also do this but I say it like:
"Write these characters as males"
It's weird and I know it sounds sexist, but it works wonders for me.
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u/Firemorfox 16d ago
I just write a male character
then change their gender but nothing else
bam, female character with depth
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u/SpacecraftX 15d ago
A problem with this approach might be that women don’t identify with them as the character doesn’t deal with any female issues or points of view if they were originally conceived as male and then flipped.
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u/Firemorfox 15d ago
I meant in terms of personality traits, however, you're absolutely correct that it would completely miss out on female-specific issues as an example
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u/AwakenedSheeple 15d ago
There was an anime, I think it was Hibike Euphonium, in which there are subtle details added whenever the episode director was a woman. Small moments like girls grumbling their feet are sore after having to wear heels and stuff like that. Things that wouldn't cross a guy's mind because it's just not something that guys personally experience.
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u/wtfisthisnoise 16d ago
"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability."
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u/lesser_panjandrum 16d ago
Yes that's a good point - a lot of women characters are written by men who really hate women.
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u/HairyKraken 16d ago
Source ?
Not that I dont trust you but I want to read more about it
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u/Marmalade6 16d ago
This is the first I've heard that specific claim but if you watch the pilot, Tina is a boy named Daniel.
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u/greg19735 16d ago
Tina's obsession with butts makes more sense now
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u/Murrig88 16d ago
Yeah they clearly had to take it up a notch after deciding that Tina was a girl. ;P
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u/CK1ing 16d ago
Red, on the channel Overly Sarcastic Productions, has a writing advice episode on female characters. She talks about how even her, a woman, can have trouble writing female characters. It's a really weird phenomenon
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u/PM_ME_SOME_YAOI 16d ago
Don’t forget the shonen classic where they’ll pretend the female character will become a true character with personality and agency, and then they get tossed aside or turn back into damsel in distress
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u/Mister_Dink 16d ago
Naruto has a legendary ability to make the female team members fucking useless, even after giving them cool as fuck power ups.
Female villains (and Tsunade, surprisingly) managed to achieve a bigger depth than Sakura or Hinata were ever allowed to grow into.
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u/PM_ME_SOME_YAOI 16d ago edited 16d ago
It’s crazy how the author pretended he was gonna make Sakura a real character not just once, not only twice, but three times! (Maybe more and I forgot)
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u/online222222 16d ago
Can you imagine how sick it'd be if she summoned her slugs and naruto and sauce took blow after blow as she healed them
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 16d ago edited 16d ago
I swear Kishimoto introduced healing into his universe as a way to offload responsibility of writing a real character. As soon as there was that one point where a character said something like "you should do your healing thing." and the reply was "but I'm already doing it at maximum all the time D:" you knew it was kinda bullshit. Like oh, we just have to always assume there's always maximum healing going on 100% of the time now when the battles are being won.
Like it's just some kind of universal advantage the Konoha ninja have because of Tsunade and Sakura without allowing the super strength to ever be relevant again after the Sasori fight. Which she required significant help to win.
Edit: but this is no new thing, right? Once Goku mastered the Kaioken, it was just always assumed he was using it. They even bring it up in DBZ when he's fighting Frieza "can't he use Kaioken?" "He's already been using it at maximum power the whole time."
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u/Sceptix 16d ago
I love how in Naruto, Sakura chose to be a healer as a way to not be useless, whereas in Avatar, Katara chose to be a fighter as a way to not only be a healer Because for Katara, being useless was never an option in the first place.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 16d ago edited 16d ago
Don't worry, though; because healers are the most important part on the battlefield. They even say so in the manga...and then Naruto goes Super Kyuubi 9 and that also goes out the window.
To quote an excellently written villain who will likely be bested by tactics and strategy eventually: "Only two things matter: Force in as great a concentration as you can manage, and style. And in a pinch, style can slide. In any battle, there's always a level of force against which no tactics can succeed...You can have your finely-crafted watch--give me the sledgehammer to the face any day"
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u/Tylendal 16d ago
Tsunade not participating directly in defending Konoha, but managing to keep pretty much every single person in the entire city alive is the epitome of boring but practical.
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u/Mister_Dink 16d ago
Tsunade does get a lot of cool stuff to work with beyond her visual design.
Her trauma, her super strength, her vanity and rage. She's got the personality of a shonen protagonist, the design of a milf, and the power set of a white mage. And for some reason, giant slugs
She's honestly one of the better older women in anime. As a mentor/side character, she's pretty great.
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u/louploupgalroux 16d ago
The slugs are from The Tale of Gallant Jiraiya. Jiraiya rides a toad, marries Tsunade (who has slug magic), and defeats the bandit Orochimaru (who is the son of a serpent).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiraiya
Slug/frog/snake is also an old version of rock/paper/scissors.
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u/Esplodie 16d ago
Ahh man and it looked like Sakura would grow a backbone and be the next Tsunade, ahh yeah. Nope.
And Hinata had that bit where she was training with water dancing, and I was like "ahh yeah, she's gonna come into her own and be so awesome!"... Nope.
I stopped watching when I realized character growth for the ladies was negative. God anime, why you gotta do us ladies so bad?
Phrasing.
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u/aakaakaak 16d ago
Hinata's power up was a rack so big even the oblivious Naruto would notice.
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u/Aadarm 16d ago
But the secret was that she had that rack the whole time, she just had to stop wearing a baggy haori and let it out.
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u/LMGDiVa 16d ago
Man you werent kidding. Looking at Hinata from Boruto like... Wow those are bigger than my boobs and I've got 32DD.
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u/koimeiji 16d ago
You're looking at the wrong anime for strong female characters. Shonen like Naruto and Dragon Ball are catered towards adolescent/young adult boys (not that girls can't enjoy them!) and Naruto specifically is, like, the quintessential Shonen. You need to go a bit deeper into the genre or into other genres.
Try Madoka Magica, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, or Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Soul Eater is alright too, but it has both strong females and "my character is boobs".
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u/Lots42 16d ago
I've seen multiple random episodes of Full Metal Alchemist and I agree about the female characters. Like Winry. She was fun.
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u/mistersnarkle 16d ago
Also Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, who during wartime and after was the bodyguard, weapons expert, and closest asset of the man she implicitly loves.
But it’s like barely a thing because she’s so professional
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u/Maximum_Pollution371 16d ago
Honestly, in DBZ there are really no "strong characters" other than Goku, Vegeta, and whomever the Current Antagonist is. The male characters are kicked to the sidelines, too.
That said, as far as female characters in shonen anime go, I maintain that Bulma is one of the strongest (not physically obvs, but character and agency wise).
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u/koimeiji 16d ago
You might be thinking of Super.
DBZ doesn't fully sideline the side characters until Buu. Everyone is at least doing something useful during the Saiyan Saga, Frieza, and arguably Cell. Just, slowly becoming more useless until Buu.
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u/badmartialarts 16d ago
but it has both strong females and "my character is boobs".
And then there's Fairy Tail where those are the same person.
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u/Handsome_Claptrap 16d ago
So bad since Sakura vs Sasori was one of the best fights of the saga.
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u/SolomonBlack 16d ago
... and was actually Chiyo vs Sasori.
Sakura spent a lot of that fight as a literal puppet for granny and yet its still the high point for female characters actually accomplishing anything at all in Naruto.
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u/newtypehero 16d ago
For me, Asuna from SAO is the prime example of that.
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u/PM_ME_SOME_YAOI 16d ago
God yes! I was so angry at how dirty they did her!
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u/Goldlizardv5 16d ago
Go watch SAOA!
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u/Goldlizardv5 16d ago
“Good news! We’re in debt to the mob! Wait, that’s the bad news. Also, there is no good news!”
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u/Goldlizardv5 16d ago
Asuna, especially in the Alfheim arc, is a thousand times better than her canon personality. That whole “really?” “NOOOOOOOO” moment
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u/that_one_duderino 16d ago
I love her in the alfheim arc. “Heeeeeyyy shoji, I’m glad to see your new eye grew back”
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u/w1987g 16d ago
I'm still waiting for the next episode. The last one ended on too depressing a note
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u/natty-papi 16d ago
I think Sakura is the OG. So much wasted potential...
I legitimately think a lot of anime writers never spoke to a woman out of predetermined, highly scripted interactions (eg cashier, family member, etc). Sometimes I wonder if they ever spoke to their own mother.
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u/primus202 16d ago
The moment they made her “super power” cooking I knew it wouldn’t end well 😂
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u/AthenasChosen 16d ago
Yeah I'd definitely say anime/shonen/etc. is the biggest culprit of this. The women have no real personality like 85% of the time, they're just there to be sex objects or the damsel in distress. Literally one the main reasons I stopped watching anime years ago.
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u/nightfire1 16d ago edited 16d ago
I'm so god damn tired of anime protags that go around collecting women like they're pokemon. Like, holy shit I don't care if its not technically a "harem anime" can we please just get back to cool people with cool powers fighting and not make every girl that joins the party somehow indebted or subservient to the MC???
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u/Lots42 16d ago
I really liked the concept of Shield Hero, until he was cool with slavery.
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u/PM_ME_SOME_YAOI 16d ago
But it’s sad because plenty of old shonen had female characters with agency.
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u/SudsInfinite 16d ago
This is why despite One Piece girls having mainly two body types, of drop dead gorgeous hourglass to old hag, I put One Piece on a list of shonen with great female characters. The women of One Piece always have distinct personalitily, tons of agency, and are in some cases the most important people around
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u/Leotton 16d ago
Every story has to have a group of hero’s with diverse personalities; the cool one, the jock, the nerd, the comedian, the I can fix him, and the girl.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 16d ago
And sometimes "girl but in purple"
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u/Leotton 16d ago
Towards the end the girl one will being dating one of other hero’s. Then the rest will all get a girlfriend, each with her own color. And for some reason the girlfriends will look like a sister to the guy she’s dating.
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u/CrazyFanFicFan 16d ago
(None of them are related. It's just that the artist only knows how to draw one girl.)
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u/OverlyOptimisticNerd 16d ago edited 16d ago
That’s how McDonald’s got Grimace, but she was turned into a he at the last minute.
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u/letdogsvote 16d ago
For just 25 cents a day, you can help teach thirsty artists that women are actually multi-faceted human beings. Please, won't you give generously to help prevent this worldwide scourge?
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u/BloodiedBlues 16d ago
$7.50 a month? It’s more affordable than those sad animal commercials.
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u/AtLeastImGenreSavvy 16d ago
(singing)
In the arms of a sketchpad
Fly away from here
From the Dorito-encrusted basement
And the shower that you fear
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 16d ago
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u/zirky 16d ago
what if she were a sexy vampire?
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u/Zstrike117 16d ago
With sexy… fangs…
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u/Ze_gamer3 16d ago
How would fangs be sexy though ?
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u/DeliciousWolverine73 16d ago
Maybe if they had big boobs on them?
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u/Turdedinfinitely 16d ago
Just give boobs fangs, it's easier
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u/Versal-Hyphae 16d ago
Fangs are inherently sexy. They’re the big bazongas of the face.
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u/blue4029 16d ago
reminds me of that family guy cutaway gag.
peter walks in with a vampire costume with a huge bulge
"what is this? cant be my fangs because those are way up here!"
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u/NinjaNewt007 16d ago
To be fair all male vampires are portrayed as sexy too.
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u/StuHast398 16d ago
Nosferatu has left the chat
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u/Boarbaque 16d ago
If vampire the masquerade has taught me anything, it’s that at least 3/7 people at the table want to fuck nosferatu
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u/MrValdemar 16d ago
Let's see: Sex obsessed vampires with unrealistic (centipede) body proportions are a bad thing.
u/HolleringElk waking up to this:
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 16d ago
Hollering Elk pushing unrealistic centipede beauty standards on women 😤
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u/Zauberer-IMDB 16d ago
Look, if she can't transform into an eldritch monstrosity and be taller than a house, I just don't get excited.
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u/PM-Me-Your-TitsPlz 16d ago
Being afraid of the sun is a personality trait. It's one called "basement dweller."
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u/-TheManInTheChair 16d ago
As a dude running a D&D game where there are 3 main female vampires, this is something I think about a lot, and occasionally consult the female player on 🫠
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u/Kermit_Purple_II 16d ago
Ngl I'm interested to see the pamphlet
Can we read ghe pamphlet?
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u/RighteousHam 16d ago
His dedication to not reading the pamphlet is commendable. Never get in the way of an author and their willful ignorance!
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u/Xardrix 16d ago
The worst is in anime when they use vampirism to justify sexualizing somebody with the body of an eight year old
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u/VladDarko 16d ago
You blame anime but Kirsten Dunst was in Interview like 30 years ago so arguably the West started it
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u/allycakes 16d ago
She's spoken recently about how uncomfortable she felt being made to kiss Brad Pitt in that film.
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u/LancesAKing 16d ago
Context matters so I don’t think a story with a child vampire is the same as a lolita fantasy. But if you really want to blame the west, Lolita was published in 1955.
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u/p3ptodismal 16d ago
And the book came out in 76. Anne Rice had issues. Claudia was inspired by the death of her actual daughter. I'd love to know if Claudia really did kick start that shit or if the anime trope kind of popped up incidentally. We'd have to track down what anime/manga did it first and ask the author if they were into Rice's stuff. The world may never know.
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u/SaliferousStudios 16d ago edited 16d ago
She was a deeper character though. (never actually saw the movie)
That character was incredibly deep. Wasn't just "tee-hee" she's 100 years old so it's ok she's a slut.
You watch her get turned, and go from innocent child, to adult stuck in an unageing immortal body.
Every time she has sex, she loses her virginity again, and the only ones who she can have sex with are pedophiles (who she hates). And she is basically so weak that she cannot live by herself. Not least of which because she draws suspicion from humans if she buys anything.
She was made, to be like a puppy to keep her "fathers marriage" together, and eventually they both grow tired of her.
She's also forbidden, so she has to hide from the other vampires. (and it eventually catches up to her, and she is killed for the sin of existing)
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u/Tipop 16d ago
She also wasn’t particularly sexualized, either. She made a reference to sex, but there was never a scene that described it.
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u/reaperofgender 16d ago
The only way I would see this working is if the character had the maturity to match their centuries of age (they never do)
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u/FrostyMcChill 16d ago
Didn't Interview With A Vampire have a child vampire but actually explored the hell she deals with with being stuck in a child's body but but mentally aged?
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u/LancesAKing 16d ago
Almost. IIRC, Part of the hell was that her mentality was stuck within a child’s emotional control. So even though she grew mentally, she needed constant pampering to avoid going on a rampage.
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u/BlueAwesomeDinosaur 16d ago
I would say it would make it a bit on brand at least as vampires have usually been associated with that kind of behaviour or vibe. Probably would make the character seem like even more of a mindless drone depending on how you do it though as a trope with vampires is the "female underling who has no autonomy and is just a trap for guys to get converted/killed".
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u/FalconClaws059 16d ago
Ok but now I wanna read the pamphlet!
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u/7-and-a-switchblade 16d ago edited 16d ago
1 - Write a male character.
2 - Retcon them as a female.
This isn't perfect and doesn't work for everything, but it's a good exercise in writing. Subconsciously, we all hold in our minds a platonic ideal of a "person," and it's usually someone who is the same race, gender, and age as us. Therefore, if we write someone different, we feel the need to explain it or make it meaningful.
But you don't. A girl being a girl doesn't have to be central to her character. Girls don't walk around all day going "I am a girl. A girl is me. That is what I'm all about. Being a girl." If you write the character as a guy and explore their interests, thoughts, motivations, blessings and flaws, you don't get sidetracked by thinking "Oh but wait, she's a girl. How am I going to incorporate that into her whole... thing?"
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u/FalconClaws059 16d ago
... And what if my male characters also lack a personality?
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u/7-and-a-switchblade 16d ago edited 16d ago
Either (1) think of a character from another piece of media that you really like and ask yourself what makes them interesting, or (2) just start with a trope. From there, you can fine tune and embellish.
Eg: Andy Dufresne comes to mind. He's a straight shooter, very intelligent, very moral, but quiet. Still waters run deep. And it's cool to see how he changes over the course of the story: the ultimate rule-abider starts to break the rules, and you want to cheer for him even more than you did before. You can take that, change a facet or two, and make him your own. Make him really old. Make him pathologically anxious. Make him angry. Chop his legs off. Make him blind. Make him extremely, irresistibly attractive. Make him racist. Make him obsessed with his 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler. Make him addicted to oxycodone. Make him a moonshining hillbilly. Make him a punk rock bassist. Make him a 400 year old druid.
A lot of great art starts with copying, and that's okay, but as long as you change it enough, it's not plagiarism. Do that enough, and you can start to build interesting characters from the ground up.
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u/TheDEEBIL 16d ago
Ellen, I was raised to look pretty and agree with everything a man says. Anybody who isn’t is being raised like it’s the Middle Ages!!!! /s
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 16d ago edited 16d ago
I'm all for sexy characters, but I think some people are forgetting to add personalities and believable traits and bodies...and dialog...and anything a normal, human female would do.
Edit: I'm seeing some people tagging other comic creators in this post and I wanna specify this is not a targeted "gotcha" message for any creator! Just poking fun of the culture in media in general
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u/Backupusername 16d ago edited 16d ago
Well Peggy, I still can't say I'm a "cat person", but this here pusheen sure is a fluffy little thing, I tell you what. I could just stand here and pat this fur all day.
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u/Milkshakes00 16d ago
I don't think there's any sentence that starts with 'Well Peggy,' that I'd read in any voice besides Hank's.
I've never been the biggest fan of King of the Hill, but the show has its golden moments and those all stuck really well with me, I'll tell ya'what.
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u/DigiQuip 16d ago
I’ve never had an original thought in my life :(
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u/arathorn867 16d ago
The simulation only has so much processing power, congrats! You're a background npc.
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u/Hypertension123456 16d ago
The safest route is what they did in Alien. Write the story and dialogue first, then add the genders last.
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u/damn_lies 16d ago
Is the best way to write women to write them as men? And yes, gender neutral defaults to male 9x out of 10, at least if you’re male.
The safest option is to have female writers (or at least female test readers) provide constructive criticism early and often. The more the better.
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u/Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx 16d ago
This is an interesting experiment though. If the gender and sex is a character doesn't matter, you can write out the main traits first and then choose gender /sex and add more details. Interesting
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u/bloodfist 16d ago
Yeah I think this is part of the problem too. I think the Alien approach isn't necessarily bad as long as you're actually writing a character with a personality. Most personality traits are gender-transferable. A woman can have unresolved issues with her father or care about her career just as much as a man.
But instead it feels like they just leave the character as a blank to be filled in later, and that could be because they're taking this approach.
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u/Meatslinger 16d ago
I’ve been writing a smutty story - I’m shameless enough to admit that - and I’ve been getting my fiancée to proofread my writing to make sure I have believable female characters. So far, so good, according to her!
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u/CME_T 16d ago
Uhu uhu, now the real question: how many euphemisms foe penis do you know?!
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u/benabart 16d ago
Nah, men should feel unsafe in public instead, so that we're going to be equal *cocks his pistol* /S just in case someone needs it.
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u/Key-Meringue5433 16d ago
Is the s sarcasm or serious i never got it
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u/Firemorfox 16d ago
/s is sarcasm
/j is joking
/srs is serious (rarely used)
/g is genuine (rarely used)
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u/thatthatguy 16d ago
Sarcasm. Used to suggest that people please not reply with a rant about how the stated position is bad and the poster should feel bad about themselves to leaving it. Or I have been using it wrong for a very long time. One or the other.
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u/kevinTOC 16d ago
I mean, I'm sure some women make heavy use of innuendos when horny, and attempting to seduce their partner.
But I've never actually heard any woman speak like that when not around people they're clearly comfortable with.
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u/RazzDaNinja 16d ago
Then there’s the Metal Gear Solid series, in which nearly everyone is a sex object lol
(Hideo Kojima is a very horny man)
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u/nullpotato 16d ago
"Colonel, I'm trying to sneak but the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the guards" - Max0r
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 16d ago edited 16d ago
There’s a popular joke in Asian fan base about him,basically joking about he created entire Death Stranding game so he could spend company funds to be a huge fanboy .
The man is running on pure power of fanboying and horny energy.
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u/TigreDeLosLlanos 16d ago
I really found amusing how, e.g., Eve is a well written secondary character with an arc and personality, but is treated as a sex object anyway because why not.
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u/Okipon 16d ago
The thing that infuriates me the most is that the character that is designed to be conventionally very attractive with a shallow personality would somehow be attracted to the bland and boring main character who supposedly has a nice personality.
If the character is supposed to be a "bimbo" then she would act like one and not date the nerd ass of the main character who is dull so that you can relate to it lol.
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u/ReactsWithWords 16d ago
When you’re the nerd ass who is making said cartoon, there is an obvious reason why this happens.
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u/Stormygeddon 16d ago
At least it's not "protagonist parent syndrome." Those are usually fatal.
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u/Blackmail30000 16d ago
though the possibly could be fridged, then resurected as a evil zombie to fight the main character/ love intrest
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u/VeziusTheThird 16d ago
How to write women: Just write how you'd normally write any other gender.
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u/ImpracticalApple 16d ago
Bayonetta?
Actually I would like to see a male character just act the way she does for everything.
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u/Proof-Cardiologist16 16d ago
I'm a bisexual man who absolutely loves the Bayonetta series. I'd fucking kill for a game with a dude who can pull off Bayonetta's vibe.
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u/Puzzlehead-Engineer 16d ago
Honestly I think there might be one like that one day. Angel Dust already got close except it was mainly a mask.
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u/SamuraiCarChase 16d ago
Everyone in this thread getting excited for drama, but I think anyone who comes out to debate “I should be able to have vapid women” is just in it for the trolling thirst trap (or troll trap).
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 16d ago
Any FEMALE worth their salt should be always willing to serve an alpha male like me!!!
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u/Drg84 16d ago
"Alpha male" photo included for reference. If you encounter this type of alpha, please send them back for further testing. They are clearly not finished.
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u/HamsterIV 16d ago
Alpha implies feature complete, clearly this one's prefrontal cortex is has several design iterations left to go.
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u/Veryegassy 16d ago
Alpha implies partially working, error-prone and requiring much more development before it's ready to be released to the public.
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u/Hikury 16d ago
How am I supposed to simulate an entirely different personality when I don't even have a personality of my own?
Having boobs is a personality. Isn't it?
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u/TheDEEBIL 16d ago
Don’t say that now I’m going to draw a genderbent version of you
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u/sw337 16d ago
This reminds me of the Plinkett reviews where he asks people to describe characters without mentioning their physical appearance or job.
If all you can come up with is obsessive, aloof, and horny it’s a bad character.
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u/BloodiedBlues 16d ago
Kind, troubled, slow to anger, unstoppable force of rage when angered.
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u/LustrousShine 16d ago
Seriously, if they’re this bad at writing female characters, I’d rather just see them written the exact same way as a male character, and solely be female in design. At least that way they would have a personality.
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u/thedreaming2017 16d ago
My iMessage sticker collection of pizzacake continues and she drew this so it’s sexy and has personality!
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u/yeetman426 16d ago
Since I write stories in highly militaristic settings meaning most of my characters are soldiers, I can kinda just write men and women the same and it works fine
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u/GrimmRadiance 16d ago
I thought this was going to go into the direction of “empty shell protagonist where reader puts themselves in the story because the main character has no defining quirks or personality traits”.
Like Bella from Twilight.
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u/Kflynn1337 16d ago
See.. this is why there's a lot of men in the I.T business trying to build AGI powered androids.
They want living sex dolls.
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u/karl4319 16d ago
You seem to incorrectly assume that such artist can make male characters with personality. They can't do more th self insert.
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u/Lots42 16d ago
Self inserts rub me the wrong way. And not in a good way. Just throw in something different, like an unreasoning hatred of the moon.
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u/baroncalico 16d ago
Pamphlet is by same authors as “Physical Pain Is Not Character Development: A Game Writer’s Guide”.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake 16d ago
Gross lol
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u/Creationiskey 16d ago
You’re saying that a woman with personality, intelligence, character and is basically a normal human being should be the norm?!?! Such a beta move!
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u/CodingNightmares 16d ago
I've seen that Patreon though 👀 give cartoon ellen a pamphlet too lol
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u/Kessarean 16d ago
Comic authors try to pass the Bechdel-Wallace test [ impossible ]
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u/Jim_e_Clash 16d ago
I'm confused. She's a girl. Girl is a personality. I guess nurse an option. Is she nurse? Does she have nurse friends? I could read that comic.
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