Now, I don't have any problem with asking for good quality stuff, but I feel like this argument is asking for female creators and characters to be that much "better" than their male counterparts in order to make up for the fact that they're female.
I. . .I have to disagree with you here. Yes, I'm more of a quality over quantity person. But I don't think it's a matter of making the women characters better than the male characters, but making them equal. Male characters, I feel, can get away with more stuff than female characters. An audience is ready to accept a male anti-hero and even root for him (see: Walter White) over a female character that plays the same role (see: Amy Dunne). (Generally, though, it seems like the "rooting for" aspect is divided among the gender lines. Obviously the male fans are more prone to root for Walter and call Amy a "monster" and vice versa.)
As for your second point: Get them into the rotation in the first place, and we can worry about whether they're awesome enough to deserve their places later.
I find this sad. If fans get into complacency about "okay, there's 4 women in this thing and they're all one-note but that's okay because there are 4 women and we could've been stuck with only one", then that becomes acceptable to the creators and they rarely will strive to make things better. Again: I'm not asking for women to be better; but to be EQUAL to the men. If you can make a goddamn male character multi-layered, it shouldn't be hard to do the same to a female character. Screw the noise that it's "hard" to make women interesting like their male-counterparts. Just NO.
Alice surprised me. I didn't realize she was so well-loved, since she's the relative newcomer to the lineup here.
There's been a lot of Resident Evil movies--I think they're up to 5 now--so that may help keep her in the forefront of people's minds. Plus the built in audience with the Resident Evil games. I'm honestly surprised that Sidney Prescott from Scream didn't make the cut, as those movie re-energized the horror business in the '90's.
I also thought Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, Terminator) would get more votes
See, I think of Sarah Connor as more of an "action chick" than "scream queen"/"horror heroine", so that's maybe why she didn't get much love. Still, she's a badass no matter what category you put her in.
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Date: 2015-01-29 07:16 pm (UTC)I. . .I have to disagree with you here. Yes, I'm more of a quality over quantity person. But I don't think it's a matter of making the women characters better than the male characters, but making them equal. Male characters, I feel, can get away with more stuff than female characters. An audience is ready to accept a male anti-hero and even root for him (see: Walter White) over a female character that plays the same role (see: Amy Dunne). (Generally, though, it seems like the "rooting for" aspect is divided among the gender lines. Obviously the male fans are more prone to root for Walter and call Amy a "monster" and vice versa.)
As for your second point: Get them into the rotation in the first place, and we can worry about whether they're awesome enough to deserve their places later.
I find this sad. If fans get into complacency about "okay, there's 4 women in this thing and they're all one-note but that's okay because there are 4 women and we could've been stuck with only one", then that becomes acceptable to the creators and they rarely will strive to make things better. Again: I'm not asking for women to be better; but to be EQUAL to the men. If you can make a goddamn male character multi-layered, it shouldn't be hard to do the same to a female character. Screw the noise that it's "hard" to make women interesting like their male-counterparts. Just NO.
Alice surprised me. I didn't realize she was so well-loved, since she's the relative newcomer to the lineup here.
There's been a lot of Resident Evil movies--I think they're up to 5 now--so that may help keep her in the forefront of people's minds. Plus the built in audience with the Resident Evil games. I'm honestly surprised that Sidney Prescott from Scream didn't make the cut, as those movie re-energized the horror business in the '90's.
I also thought Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, Terminator) would get more votes
See, I think of Sarah Connor as more of an "action chick" than "scream queen"/"horror heroine", so that's maybe why she didn't get much love. Still, she's a badass no matter what category you put her in.