Ladies, Please (Carry On Being Awesome)

[sarahtales]

So I was walking home from the new Star Trek movie, which I have previously indicated I found to be awesome. I was pretty surprised by this, as the Star Trek TV shows had not caught my fancy, and expressed this surprise to my friend, who was a fan of the TV show

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[sarahtales]

Nobody is obligated to love Mae: in fact everyone unanimously liking her would be weird, as she is a flawed person and her traits may get up some people's noses just as much as Jamie's or Nick's might another person's.

I do think that female characters get judged more harshly, especially when they're main characters (more minor characters don't take time away from the guys - like how Uhura in Star Trek was better liked as a minor character in the TV show than a major character in the movie) and are dismissed as 'perfect' more easily.

Naturally the comparison between Mae and Nick's not a perfect comparison, since, yes, they're very different people.

Mae had both boys at her feet, top of the love pyramid. Nick had one girl after him, and a boy who sent him a single glance and recognized him as attractive. Mae for one might be surprised to hear she had Nick at her feet? She's the one who makes moves on Nick, mostly, so Nick has two girls who make no bones about fancying him. Plus Liannan, plus Cassie from his London school. Plus more

[iamintroversion]

Thank you so much for your reply. I do have to think about it, and I may have jumped the gun a bit, and there were things I had forgotten about (the other wimminz) or not thought of -- Mae and Jamie's traits balancing each other out, for one -- but I certainly hadn't seen Mae as kinder, but I read it twice quickly and then kept it changing hands pretty constantly since then. ;] So I'll think about it, but one thing I had to respond to RIGHT AWAY OMG

[sarahtales]

I kind of felt that she was the posterchild for onlygirl!feminist. Like, there was no room in the cast for other awesome ladies, so you had to have her channel all of their traits into her.

Well - Olivia and Liannan and Sin and Merris are all there, even though they don't get as much pagetime as Mae, and I think they all have their awesome (and not-so-awesome) aspects, so I didn't see Mae as having to do all the awesome spadework by herself. They were in the cast too