Starry Nights: Random Book

Feminist Characters

I feel like modern authors have a really twisted idea about what a feminist character is.

To look into that, we need to start off asking what feminism itself is, and what it is is the idea of equality for women, to see women as human people.

Female characters in books written before the 1960's tend to either crash and burn or totally excel as phenomenal feminist characters, and there's a reason!!! The reason is because back then the belief that women were not equal or not people was way more common, so portraying women as people was risky, and the authors who did it anyway wrote truly and beautifully human characters.

In the modern day, authors don't feel the need to prove women are people, because we all know that. So they write stories with the SOLE INTENTION of proving that women can be the best. They portray a feminist experience at the cost of portraying the HUMAN experience, and what we get is a shell of a character.

The human experience is to love and to hate, and to laugh and to cry, it couldn't matter less if she loves pink and hates bugs or if she loves wrestling and hates dolls, as long as she loves and she hates and goes through good and bad then that's the human experience!! Too many authors think a feminist character either only loves (Mary Sue love interest) or only hates (edgelord who does everything alone, talks about "all men" and "girl power" and is a massive butt). Those aren't humans and therefore aren't women or feminists