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yonmei I wandered to ide_cyan's compilation of links about feminism and femmeslash. An interesting read, bouncing around to different slash writers opinions about why femmeslash is underrepresented in the slash community even though the community is mainly women who are bi. It's one of those issues which I poke at in my own life every now and then, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, and has come up again in the past few weeks. Various posters brought up the points that it's not that strong female characters are impossible to find, it's more that A) we can't identify with them (either because they're a little too 'normal' or because they often become flawlessly perfect), and B) there's usually only one female character among the overwhelmingly male cast.
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yonmei I wandered to ide_cyan's compilation of links about feminism and femmeslash. An interesting read, bouncing around to different slash writers opinions about why femmeslash is underrepresented in the slash community even though the community is mainly women who are bi. It's one of those issues which I poke at in my own life every now and then, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, and has come up again in the past few weeks. Various posters brought up the points that it's not that strong female characters are impossible to find, it's more that A) we can't identify with them (either because they're a little too 'normal' or because they often become flawlessly perfect), and B) there's usually only one female character among the overwhelmingly male cast. ( femmeslash and female characters )