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Apr. 9th, 2016 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsWhile I enjoy the internet, there are times when I feel I might be injuring my eyes at the amount of eye rolling I do. And worse are when I want to punch a bunch of people in their stupid g-d faces. Take the Rogue One trailer for example:
I dunno about you, but that movie looks freaking awesome. Bad-ass female lead, lots of action, Donnie Yen pulling a Syrio Forel on some stormtroopers? What's not to like? Apparently a female lead, for some people. The neckbeards are crying about "Oh great, another female lead! When are we going to get a male led Star Wars?!" Um, the first six, dumbasses?
And it pisses me off, because whenever a not a straight male figures prominently in media, you have all these punks crawling out of the woodwork about how the women/minorities/gays are taking over everything! And no, they're not! You're just focusing on it because it something you're not used to, but rest assured, the majority of Hollywood movies still skews towards the male straights.
And you also have the guys trying to be all, "Oh, I'm not chauvinist!" saying they're perfectly fine with a female lead, but wish she wasn't such a "Mary Sue"! Which is the biggest bunch of horseshit ever, and I despise that term with a passion. It gets thrown around far too often, and is used completely wrong. Do you know how the term originated? It basis is from fanfics, where the writer introduces an OC into the mix, some made up nobody who's as good as the actual characters of the work their basing their fic off of (or better!). And this new character, by virtue of their awesomeness, helps the real characters accomplish some goal. Its wish fulfillment fantasy, plain and simple, because c'mon, that OC is a stand in for the author. And its understandably derided, because like if I want to read freaking TVD or Harry Potter fan fiction or whatever, I want to read about the actual characters, not Mary Sue whoever.
But over time, that term has gotten corrupted, and now is used to describe any character in a story, mostly women, who the reader finds "too competent". You know what that's normally called? A G-D protagonist. Freaking Rambo, or John Mcclane, or any of Arnold's characters were never accused of being a Mary Sue (sorry, I hate the Gary Stu term even more than Mary Sue. Its not a fucking thing, people!), because that's the character, an ultimate bad-ass. (And whatever John Mcclane is supposed to be an everyman hero because he's not as jacked as Arnold or Stallone, but that's bullshit, let's see you try to taken on a dozen terrorists on your own, see where that gets you) I mean, yes, its "unrealistic" for farmboy Luke Skywalker to be thrust into a Galactic Civil War and become a hero, but what the eff do you want? For him to die because he's some kid from the sticks? That makes for a pretty short story.
Some will argue, well no, I just want it to be a little harder for them. Bullshit, no you don't! You really want to watch an extra half hour of movie/have to read a couple more chapters just so the protagonist has to struggle a little more? Fiction is fantasy. Why the eff would I want to follow the story of some nobody incompetent who fails most of the time?
All in all, grow the eff up. Women/minority/LGBQT folks just want a piece of the pie. Stop crapping on them because you feel threatened, you big babies.
I dunno about you, but that movie looks freaking awesome. Bad-ass female lead, lots of action, Donnie Yen pulling a Syrio Forel on some stormtroopers? What's not to like? Apparently a female lead, for some people. The neckbeards are crying about "Oh great, another female lead! When are we going to get a male led Star Wars?!" Um, the first six, dumbasses?
And it pisses me off, because whenever a not a straight male figures prominently in media, you have all these punks crawling out of the woodwork about how the women/minorities/gays are taking over everything! And no, they're not! You're just focusing on it because it something you're not used to, but rest assured, the majority of Hollywood movies still skews towards the male straights.
And you also have the guys trying to be all, "Oh, I'm not chauvinist!" saying they're perfectly fine with a female lead, but wish she wasn't such a "Mary Sue"! Which is the biggest bunch of horseshit ever, and I despise that term with a passion. It gets thrown around far too often, and is used completely wrong. Do you know how the term originated? It basis is from fanfics, where the writer introduces an OC into the mix, some made up nobody who's as good as the actual characters of the work their basing their fic off of (or better!). And this new character, by virtue of their awesomeness, helps the real characters accomplish some goal. Its wish fulfillment fantasy, plain and simple, because c'mon, that OC is a stand in for the author. And its understandably derided, because like if I want to read freaking TVD or Harry Potter fan fiction or whatever, I want to read about the actual characters, not Mary Sue whoever.
But over time, that term has gotten corrupted, and now is used to describe any character in a story, mostly women, who the reader finds "too competent". You know what that's normally called? A G-D protagonist. Freaking Rambo, or John Mcclane, or any of Arnold's characters were never accused of being a Mary Sue (sorry, I hate the Gary Stu term even more than Mary Sue. Its not a fucking thing, people!), because that's the character, an ultimate bad-ass. (And whatever John Mcclane is supposed to be an everyman hero because he's not as jacked as Arnold or Stallone, but that's bullshit, let's see you try to taken on a dozen terrorists on your own, see where that gets you) I mean, yes, its "unrealistic" for farmboy Luke Skywalker to be thrust into a Galactic Civil War and become a hero, but what the eff do you want? For him to die because he's some kid from the sticks? That makes for a pretty short story.
Some will argue, well no, I just want it to be a little harder for them. Bullshit, no you don't! You really want to watch an extra half hour of movie/have to read a couple more chapters just so the protagonist has to struggle a little more? Fiction is fantasy. Why the eff would I want to follow the story of some nobody incompetent who fails most of the time?
All in all, grow the eff up. Women/minority/LGBQT folks just want a piece of the pie. Stop crapping on them because you feel threatened, you big babies.
