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[nighteevee]

Fanon decrees that India and Ireland are both women, with India being England's guilty infatuation who quite possibly taught him the pleasures of the flesh while Ireland is his not-as-pretty, kickass sister. Mexico, normally also a buxom lass, might or might not have been in and out of America's bed a number of times throughout the years, and might

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[duokai]

With that in mind, shouldn't Norway (and Finland) be female too?

Postcolonial critique, or feminist one, that's the question.
(Speaking of this, does Sapmi exist in fanon by the way?)

[nighteevee]

Eh, the one book I had to read on it had a chapter dedicated to how postcolonial and feminist critique overlapped. As for the gender question: Certainly not Norway, since orientalism relies on an assumed polarity between the colonizer and the colonized, and Scandinavia = pretty damn monocultural. Finland might have qualified, tho.

(I have seen Sapmi discussed, but never written about)

[nighteevee]

It does strike me that there was more variety in those characters in the early days of the fandom, and I think I liked it better that way. I kind of hope that any future characters are female because of how few girls there are around, but from the revoltingly academical perspective that I no longer can rid myself of: it really does not give that great an impression to cast all leading powers as male, and the few female characters as secondary nations of lesser significance (EVEN IF THIS IS HOW SHOUNEN ROLLS YES I KNOW THIS GOD).

Bottom line: I agree that the fandom needs to be a bit more inventive about the OCs.