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The hero's journey (for women):
1. Be born awesome and amazing
2. Horrible men/the patriarchy hold you back from realizing how awesome and amazing you are
3. Push back against the barriers that those horrible and oppressive men have imposed on you and discover that you were amazing all along without having to put any real work in.
See how bad that type of story is? That is why so many female main character stories suck.
@WashedOutGundamPilot @houseoftolstoy Its a good thing i've always preferred lord of the rings
@WashedOutGundamPilot @houseoftolstoy At least in Harry Potter they give the initial setup as "He was miserable, with people who didn't fully appreciate him" but I guess that can go into the "Your family and traditions are just holding you back!" A bit.
Harry Potter is weird because some of it is progressive and other parts of traditionalist and it never makes up its mind (as a story written by a woman would)
Harry Potter is weird because some of it is progressive and other parts of traditionalist and it never makes up its mind (as a story written by a woman would)
@WashedOutGundamPilot Looking back at those books, I found that they did not age all that well. Reading them as a (literal) child was fine, but there are quite a few issues that just do not work all that well as an adult.
They rarely think of anything other than a Mary Sue.
@houseoftolstoy 4. Marry your dog
@houseoftolstoy Always been interesting to me that they did the same for boys too.
“yer a wizard harry, look, yer actually a millionaire!!!” and all.
Written by women, yeah, but there are so many spiritual women running around that they don’t even need to provide an alternative. The few male-skewed movies we get now are an aberration. John Wick and Top Gun is all I can think of getting for the average normie.