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firstfrost ([personal profile] firstfrost) wrote 2020-02-25 10:36 pm (UTC)

I don't know if we have really moved on from the tropes; I am definitely still reading books which have a lot of characters plus some women characters. (It is a running... point of commentary... that I notice this a lot more than [personal profile] mjperson does, and I have less patience for it than I used to. (Bobiverse, I am looking at you.) Or books which are feminist because the main character treats the women well even when he doesn't have to.

Hmm. I think "woman who is awesome and also traditionally femme and also sexual and that's TOTALLY OKAY" is the default replacement strong female protagonist trope. A lot of the places that we're making advances now I feel are not yet common enough to be tropes, though the people who make lists of tropes probably have them catalogued. :)

(like "person whose pronouns are they/them but it's not a plot point at all")




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