Strong female character - Revision history

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Lquilter: Strong female characters moved to Strong female character: standardizing to singular

2007-10-21T13:57:11Z

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	Characterizing people on attributes other than gender stereotypes is a critical aspect of characterization and good writing. While failing to characterize gender stereotypes is sexist, moving beyond gender stereotypes is but the first step in non-sexist writing: other pitfalls include, for example, gendered plotting, or unnoted acceptance of sexism on both the part of characters and the authorial voice.		Characterizing people on attributes other than gender stereotypes is a critical aspect of characterization and good writing. While failing to characterize gender stereotypes is sexist, moving beyond gender stereotypes is but the first step in non-sexist writing: other pitfalls include, for example, gendered plotting, or unnoted acceptance of sexism on both the part of characters and the authorial voice.

	Avoiding all pitfalls of sexist writing may render a work non-sexist, but it does not necessarily render a work ''feminist'' or ''anti-sexist''.		Avoiding all pitfalls of sexist writing may render a work [[non-sexist]], but it does not necessarily render a work ''[[feminist]]'' or ''[[anti-sexist]]''.


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Lquilter: Strong women characters moved to Strong female characters: adjective!

2007-09-19T11:42:28Z

Strong women characters moved to Strong female characters: adjective!

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Some people consider that '''"strong female characters"''' are sufficient to define a work — particularly SF or other genre work — as feminist. This is no doubt in response to a standard that focused work on male characters, with female characters poorly characterized or entirely absent.

Characterizing people on attributes other than gender stereotypes is a critical aspect of characterization and good writing. While failing to characterize gender stereotypes is sexist, moving beyond gender stereotypes is but the first step in non-sexist writing: other pitfalls include, for example, gendered plotting, or unnoted acceptance of sexism on both the part of characters and the authorial voice.

Avoiding all pitfalls of sexist writing may render a work non-sexist, but it does not necessarily render a work ''feminist'' or ''anti-sexist''.

[[Category:Feminism]]
[[Category:Characterization]]