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100_women challenge today, which is another one of those challenge coms to get people to write fics based on their fandom's female charecters. Then I realized the lack of female charecters in most of the fandoms I can really be say to be involved in besides Buffy, and now that I think of it Portal. I would count Doctor Who as well, but it's not worth my sanity to figure out when I should be doing the counting from on that show.
So, in no particualr order:
MST3K: Gypsy, Pearl, and Magic Voice. With the extrmely minor reoccuring charecters of Sylvia and Flavia, and the occasional showing up of folks like Jan in the Pan and Nueva.
Portal: VAL, Gardenia, Dr. Hopkins, Yoodle, the female half of the husbend and wife mercenary team, that giantes whose name I'm also blanking on, and the horror of Snuggy Dove.
House: Drs. Cameron and Cuddy, and Stacy.
Buffy: Buffy, Willow, Cordelia, Joyce, Dawn, Anya, Tara, Drusilla, Darla, Faith, Glory, Ms. Calender, Amy, Dr. Walsh, Hamony and the host of Baby Slayers (Ronda, Molly, Amanda, Cho-Ann, Chole, Vi... and the rest. Yes, I suck.)
Xander, Giles, Oz, The Master, Spike, Angel(us), The Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Adam, Andrew, Warren, Jonathan, Caleb, Larry, Clem.
But, there are a few shows where I think the female cast outweighs the male, but very rarely. Buffy tilts just a nice 50/50 balence barely tilting one way or another depending on the season until the baby slayers arrive. Charmed is female heavy, and possibley Gilmore Girls? There's some animes, like Salior Moon, that are almost completely made of female charecters, but since I haven't been really keeping up with it, I can only really say Salior Moon and the Tenchi series.
And then there's the shows that I understand why they're almost completely made up of male cast, like Stargate SG-1, as I'm pretty sure the military is dominated by the male of the species.
And then we get to Eureka. Eureka, Eureka, Eureka. The fine posters over at the the Television Without Pity thread keep bringing up the lack of female charecters, and the woman who talks about sex is of course evil. Then again, most of the hard sciences are filled with men - for instance 9 out of 10 doctorates for mathamatics is guy - and it drifts to about sixty percent of social scientists are female. So, yes, there's a good odds that the evil psycholgist - and yes, it would make the most sense for the psychologist to be the main bad - would be a woman. So it's not the evil television exes keeping the woman down, it's acutal reality in the scientific fields.
BUT it's like my sister explained to a group once, media doesn't appear out of thin air, and it wouldn't be made if no one was watching it.
And that's not even getting into the agument whether or not the male charecters are more interesting.
100_women challenge today, which is another one of those challenge coms to get people to write fics based on their fandom's female charecters. Then I realized the lack of female charecters in most of the fandoms I can really be say to be involved in besides Buffy, and now that I think of it Portal. I would count Doctor Who as well, but it's not worth my sanity to figure out when I should be doing the counting from on that show.So, in no particualr order:
MST3K: Gypsy, Pearl, and Magic Voice. With the extrmely minor reoccuring charecters of Sylvia and Flavia, and the occasional showing up of folks like Jan in the Pan and Nueva.
Portal: VAL, Gardenia, Dr. Hopkins, Yoodle, the female half of the husbend and wife mercenary team, that giantes whose name I'm also blanking on, and the horror of Snuggy Dove.
House: Drs. Cameron and Cuddy, and Stacy.
Buffy: Buffy, Willow, Cordelia, Joyce, Dawn, Anya, Tara, Drusilla, Darla, Faith, Glory, Ms. Calender, Amy, Dr. Walsh, Hamony and the host of Baby Slayers (Ronda, Molly, Amanda, Cho-Ann, Chole, Vi... and the rest. Yes, I suck.)
Xander, Giles, Oz, The Master, Spike, Angel(us), The Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Adam, Andrew, Warren, Jonathan, Caleb, Larry, Clem.
But, there are a few shows where I think the female cast outweighs the male, but very rarely. Buffy tilts just a nice 50/50 balence barely tilting one way or another depending on the season until the baby slayers arrive. Charmed is female heavy, and possibley Gilmore Girls? There's some animes, like Salior Moon, that are almost completely made of female charecters, but since I haven't been really keeping up with it, I can only really say Salior Moon and the Tenchi series.
And then there's the shows that I understand why they're almost completely made up of male cast, like Stargate SG-1, as I'm pretty sure the military is dominated by the male of the species.
And then we get to Eureka. Eureka, Eureka, Eureka. The fine posters over at the the Television Without Pity thread keep bringing up the lack of female charecters, and the woman who talks about sex is of course evil. Then again, most of the hard sciences are filled with men - for instance 9 out of 10 doctorates for mathamatics is guy - and it drifts to about sixty percent of social scientists are female. So, yes, there's a good odds that the evil psycholgist - and yes, it would make the most sense for the psychologist to be the main bad - would be a woman. So it's not the evil television exes keeping the woman down, it's acutal reality in the scientific fields.
BUT it's like my sister explained to a group once, media doesn't appear out of thin air, and it wouldn't be made if no one was watching it.
And that's not even getting into the agument whether or not the male charecters are more interesting.
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