R.O.H.G.E.

[captlebubbles]

Okay so you’ve got these five high school girls, right?

Rachel is your typical Alpha Bitch. She’s the head cheerleader, the most popular girl in school, all the boys want her on their arm, she probably sleeps around, she’s always stylish. She doesn’t see herself as “not like other girls”, she sees other girls as not like her- but obviously she’s

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[wolfy_writing]

I like this! And I very much like that includes girls who are all "Feminism! That means judging girls as individuals for not doing what I think is best, right?" (which I think is a big problem with how way too many people handle feminism and social justice in general - they take a magnifying glass to individuals looking for any variation from an imagined ideal, while ignoring the great big social institutions that are the driving force behind a lot of actual damage).

[captlebubbles]

Yeah, they're very much baby feminists who have a lot to learn, and are prone to preachiness and judgment, and will use buzzwords without really knowing what they're really saying or implying.

It'd be a tricky story to handle writing, because it's a story all about girls empowering each other and girls being more than the 2d caricatures that fiction often paints them as and subverting expectations about stories about girls, but it also starts off with five of the most common female character stereotypes being blatantly that stereotype and there needs to be some way of getting the audience to be willing to stick it out for that long.

The story may need to start off with a flash forward to some huge battle where they all have to work together, and then it fades out and picks up at an earlier point like "this is the beginning of that story".

[wolfy_writing]

That might work. Non-linear is really in.

You could start with a scene full of jump-cuts between them engaging in bad behavior and them heroically supporting each other, and then go back to the beginning of the story?

[captlebubbles]

It also gives a taste of what the story is working for and makes it clear that the author is probably aware that the starting points are shitty.

Hmm, maybe. I'm not quite sure I understand what you're suggesting, though.