What is a strong female character?

So, " a strong female character is a stereotype used in fiction for independant, courageous or resilent women. Sometimes simplified to only be strong in fights to enter the stereotype. The strong female character is most of the time is an heroine able to defend herself with capacities not reduce to only her physical strenght: she's the complete opposite of a damsel in distress in fairy tails or in cartoons at the start of Disney." is the defintion I have found on the net.

Let' s be honest, no one likes a Mary Sue (nor a Gary Sue), they're boring and it feels like they're just some emotionless mannequin who does what they're being told, like a robot. 

On SNS, I often see people (yes, people in general) confuse "feminism" and "misandry", feminism is when you believe in equal rights between es, misandry is the equivalent of mysogine for women: women who hate/despite men. 

Being an independant women doesn't mean you're going to hate men, an independant woman will do well without a man financially or whatever you want but that doesn't mean she can't be with a man, those women who work, studies to get a job are independant yet can have a man. 

In movies, I'll take kickass for example, you see that pre-pubert/teenager girl who can take down men twice her size without having anything supernatural in her strenght, even if she was trained her whole life, in a hand to hand combat she'd be on the floor and I think in literature it doesn't change that much when it comes to this.

I've seen people talking about writing/making a strong female character was the same as doing a strong male character but with s, well no someone writing a strong female character would take in consideration her physical strenght disadvantage, basically while a male could handle a hand to hand fight against another man and woman, a female would have much more struggle for the man (I'm still talking about a hand to hand fight) 

I want to introduce a youtube video I've seen a while ago but I think say all what I think on this matter really welll! 

When I was younger (lmao, just seven-five years ago), the strong female character truly became a trend within movies (Hunger games mostly) and books and I started to think that taking interest in such stereotypical things as make up, clothes and such was not enough female empowering etc, but as of today, I think about how in the past all the nobles, men and women wore make up, took great care of their appearances even if it was to show their social statues, they must have enjoyed all of this in both side. 

Male star/actors all wear as much make up as female, take great care of their skin and pick their clothes carefully but I never saw "This is not manly enough"

While being too feminine had been seen as a stereotype, but isn't that whole thing femininity/masculinity isn't a part of our nature and identity as a woman or man? (Yes, there are people who enjoy the typical masculine things/toys and reverse for feminine) 

In Fashion, clothes patrons are made to be embracing how our body was made (though it isn't perfect as mode for round people is still neglected and the body image issues are not close enough to be stopped) 

Anyway, will let you with that video!

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MissMinew
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I haven’t watched the video but I just wanted to say that I personally really like a feminine “strong” character. Like, not actual physical strength but a female character who’s comfortable with being feminine. She likes flowers and dresses and make-up and she’s confident in who she is. I really like the stereotypically feminine things which is probably also why I really want more feminine characters that aren’t “damsel in distresses”. You don’t need to be a “tomboy” to be confident or independent >.>”

When it comes to romantic relationships I think it’s important (in general, homoual or straight relationship) to know the difference between “need a partner” and “want a partner”. A good independent character /wants/ her partner because they enrich her life but she doesn’t /need/ her partner to survive. That’s a huge difference and well, one I think is super important :3

Good blogpost!