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I’ve never been able to connect to female characters in fiction and it has nothing to do with my gender. I just think most female characters are... boring...
(2) Why? Well, I’m not sure, but I have a theory: writing. Portrayal. Whether it’s written fiction or animated/visual, there’s a few categories of women that are constantly reused. +
(3) The first one is one that’s slowly dying out and it’s the preppy, cute one. Mostly seen in anime lately but it’s there in older movies too like Sex and the City or friends. They’re just so... bland... to me. +
(4) Is it social conditioning? Is it my connection with male characters?? Is it how they’re written? No clue. My theory is that writers tend to narrow down women to these categories in which the cute/feminine/girly girl one was most common before.
(5) I have nothing against girls like that, I just find them boring in fiction because they’re... just that. They don’t feel like people. They’re female and that’s it. That’s their whole character; the fact that they’re painfully ”woman”.
(6) The second category is the opposite. It’s the she-man. The one where they try so hard to go against norms that they essentially give the character all typically macho male traits and call it a day.
(7) Again, that ends up being her whole personality; the fact that she’s a tomboy, or ”not like other girls”. A sub category of this would be the ”bro girl” or the ”nerdy girl no one likes”.
(8) The third category are the emos, the females that are torn down to their tragic past and nothing else. Think Mikasa from Attack on Titan. Does she have a personality? No one knows. Let’s throw in a ”quirky scene” where she yeets Eren and call it a day.
(9) And the last category is an open category for all the gazzillion of bland, in-between female character with no real personality other than ”tits” and ”Haha you thought I was weak? (Tits bounce) Well I’m a bad bitch”
(10) This is getting long but the point is I cannot connect to these characters because they have 0 personality, I think. The one female character I like is Maggie from The Walking Dead. Splendid if you ask me but even she falls flat sometimes.
(11) and the second female character I like is Naru from Barakamon. Probably because she’s a child so she’s, you know, just that. A child. Not a sex icon, not a ”bad bitch”, nothing but a kid being a kid...
(12) In conclusion
