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Fandom, it has often been noted, doesn’t appreciate women enough. Women characters, women writers, actresses, directors... In many cases, it feels like you can wander around fandom and only hear about women through the endless barrage of complaints against uppity female characters and the comments about each other’s bodies.
Rather than belaboring the point or trying to blame another faction of fandom as being ‘worse’ than one’s own-- Show your pride. Show your love. Show us the women you love and the women who have changed your life. Who spins your world right round, baby? Whose writing has changed your life?
The point isn’t to show how much better you are than others, or to make other fans feel bad. There are sharp fans doing good meta that will lead us onto wiser paths. The point of this meme is to spread positivity towards women in fandom, to squee with other fans over your favorite characters, actresses, authors, and musicians, and to look at other people’s lists for new sources of enjoyment.
Answer the following to the best of your memory, with as much detail as you want to, including women from every walk of life that you can think of. If you need to add another category, do so. And yes, transfolk count. ♥
I actively fangirl/squee for THESE female characters:
Chloe Sullivan (fuck you, she’s awesome)
Kara Zor-El (in Smallville and DC Comics/the DCAU)
Wonder Woman
BARBARA FUCKING GORDON BITCHES OMFG
Catwoman :D (the only woman I ship with the Bats)
Harlz & Ivy
Needy Lesnicki
Willow Rosenburg
Tara Maclay
Faith Lehane (FUCK YOU SHE’S AWESOME)
Echo/Caroline (hbic)
Sierra/Priya (soooob, Priiiyyaaaa)
Dr. Saunders
KAHLAN!!!
Quinn Fabray
Mercedes Jones
Tina Cohen-Chang
Neytiri (the best thing about Avatar)
Bonnie Bennett (ohhh, my witchy needs fullfilled)
Jane (Deb) Bingum from Drop Dead Diva
I have roleplayed (sympathetically!) or written from the perspective of these female characters:
Chloe Sullivan
Mercy Graves
Lana Lang (believe it or not)
Lois Lane (fuck yes, I did. a couple of times.)
Barbara Gordon and Dinah Lance (not published yet)
Quinn Fabray
Santana Lopez
Sora Takenouchi
Miyako Inoue
Hikari Kamiya
Cho Chang
(I restricted this to other people’s characters only. Of course, I enjoy my OCs, but it’s hard for other people to fangirl them.)
I actively follow these actresses, aka, I get excited about their projects, squeal about their successes, and will probably try something they are in, even if it doesn’t look that good:
Charlize Theron (she’s just fucking amazing)
Amanda Seyfried
Allison Mack
Dianna Agron (god, look at this. i’m sorry, i have a thing for blonds o.O)
Jenna Ushkowitz
Eliza Dushku
Dichen Lachman (guise, even if you didn’t see Dollhouse, she’s AMAAAAZING)
Kat Graham
Kristin Kruek (don’t judge me. she’s an awesome person.)
Zoe Saldana (I want her to play Catwoman, since Jolie and Theron are probably too old for the part, and I'm not sure Eliza Dushku could do it.)
Gina Torres (She’s just kind of awesome no matter what she’s doing, from evil goddess, to warrior woman, to hippy mom, to fat camp warden. She could also be Catwoman.)
Margaret Cho (there are no words for how delightful and brilliant she is. loved her since her short lived sitcom)
Idina Menzel (Just you and I, defyyying gravity!)
Without these women authors-- including fiction, memoirs, theorists, scientists, script and comic book writers and bloggers-- my life would be POORER:
Tanya Huff (Omfg. Vicki Nelson series, and the Bardic voices where where everyone is bisexual.)
Mercedes Lackey (I can’t read her much anymore, but she gave me my first significant GAY male character, and it was only a big deal because his father was already a dick about so many things. Vaaaanyel!)
Diane Duane (Young Wizards!)
Octavia Butler (idk i can’t even explain if you don’t know)
Judith Butler (painful, but important)
Mary Wilkins Freeman (turn of the century regionist and ghost story writer)
Kate Chopin (her short stories are best)
Anzia Yezierska (start with the short stories, then go for the novel)
Eliza Haywood (turn of the century before writer who kicked some damn ass and frustrated all those mens competing with the mad scribbling women)
Jeanette Walls (The Glass Castle, memoir)
Louise Erdritch (The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse is a good one, but she writes so many)
Paula Gunn Allen (The Woman Who Owned the Shadows)
Margaret Atwood ♥
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
Jennifer Finney Boylan (She’s Not There)
Jay Prosser (Second Skins)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
bell hooks
Carol Queen
Inga Muscio (her first book is a good intro to some important feminist concepts, although it is problematic. But her second book Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil was more influential to me)
TEMPLE GRANDIN! (OMG)
Gina Kolata (Rethinking Thin)
Linda Bacon (HAES)
Brenda Breuggemann (disability studies)
Melanie Yergeau (disability studies, particularly rhetoric and autism)
Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body)
Karen Walton (cowrote Ginger Snaps)
Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life and Huge, the latter of which she’s doing with her daughter)
Gail Simone (hilarious woman and queen of Birds of Prey)
Serena Valentino (Nightmares and Fairytales)
Lesley Kinsel and Marianne Kirby of Fatcast and Lesley’s intense explication of Lady GaGa
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (with compassionate cooks.com)
Everyone posting on FWD
Without these female voices, my world would be without song:
LADY GAGA
Tori Amos
Regina Spektor
Alanis Morrisette
Jewel
Melissa Etheridge
Jack Off Jill
KidneyThieves
Ace of Base
Luscious Jackson
Courtney Love/Hole
Poe
Lisa Loeb
Salt N Pepa
Tegan and Sara
La Tigre
Tomiko Van/Do As Infinity
Aqua
If you have love to share, copy the description and questions and post to your own journal.
Fandom, it has often been noted, doesn’t appreciate women enough. Women characters, women writers, actresses, directors... In many cases, it feels like you can wander around fandom and only hear about women through the endless barrage of complaints against uppity female characters and the comments about each other’s bodies.
Rather than belaboring the point or trying to blame another faction of fandom as being ‘worse’ than one’s own-- Show your pride. Show your love. Show us the women you love and the women who have changed your life. Who spins your world right round, baby? Whose writing has changed your life?
The point isn’t to show how much better you are than others, or to make other fans feel bad. There are sharp fans doing good meta that will lead us onto wiser paths. The point of this meme is to spread positivity towards women in fandom, to squee with other fans over your favorite characters, actresses, authors, and musicians, and to look at other people’s lists for new sources of enjoyment.
Answer the following to the best of your memory, with as much detail as you want to, including women from every walk of life that you can think of. If you need to add another category, do so. And yes, transfolk count. ♥
I actively fangirl/squee for THESE female characters:
Chloe Sullivan (fuck you, she’s awesome)
Kara Zor-El (in Smallville and DC Comics/the DCAU)
Wonder Woman
BARBARA FUCKING GORDON BITCHES OMFG
Catwoman :D (the only woman I ship with the Bats)
Harlz & Ivy
Needy Lesnicki
Willow Rosenburg
Tara Maclay
Faith Lehane (FUCK YOU SHE’S AWESOME)
Echo/Caroline (hbic)
Sierra/Priya (soooob, Priiiyyaaaa)
Dr. Saunders
KAHLAN!!!
Quinn Fabray
Mercedes Jones
Tina Cohen-Chang
Neytiri (the best thing about Avatar)
Bonnie Bennett (ohhh, my witchy needs fullfilled)
Jane (Deb) Bingum from Drop Dead Diva
I have roleplayed (sympathetically!) or written from the perspective of these female characters:
Chloe Sullivan
Mercy Graves
Lana Lang (believe it or not)
Lois Lane (fuck yes, I did. a couple of times.)
Barbara Gordon and Dinah Lance (not published yet)
Quinn Fabray
Santana Lopez
Sora Takenouchi
Miyako Inoue
Hikari Kamiya
Cho Chang
(I restricted this to other people’s characters only. Of course, I enjoy my OCs, but it’s hard for other people to fangirl them.)
I actively follow these actresses, aka, I get excited about their projects, squeal about their successes, and will probably try something they are in, even if it doesn’t look that good:
Charlize Theron (she’s just fucking amazing)
Amanda Seyfried
Allison Mack
Dianna Agron (god, look at this. i’m sorry, i have a thing for blonds o.O)
Jenna Ushkowitz
Eliza Dushku
Dichen Lachman (guise, even if you didn’t see Dollhouse, she’s AMAAAAZING)
Kat Graham
Kristin Kruek (don’t judge me. she’s an awesome person.)
Zoe Saldana (I want her to play Catwoman, since Jolie and Theron are probably too old for the part, and I'm not sure Eliza Dushku could do it.)
Gina Torres (She’s just kind of awesome no matter what she’s doing, from evil goddess, to warrior woman, to hippy mom, to fat camp warden. She could also be Catwoman.)
Margaret Cho (there are no words for how delightful and brilliant she is. loved her since her short lived sitcom)
Idina Menzel (Just you and I, defyyying gravity!)
Without these women authors-- including fiction, memoirs, theorists, scientists, script and comic book writers and bloggers-- my life would be POORER:
Tanya Huff (Omfg. Vicki Nelson series, and the Bardic voices where where everyone is bisexual.)
Mercedes Lackey (I can’t read her much anymore, but she gave me my first significant GAY male character, and it was only a big deal because his father was already a dick about so many things. Vaaaanyel!)
Diane Duane (Young Wizards!)
Octavia Butler (idk i can’t even explain if you don’t know)
Judith Butler (painful, but important)
Mary Wilkins Freeman (turn of the century regionist and ghost story writer)
Kate Chopin (her short stories are best)
Anzia Yezierska (start with the short stories, then go for the novel)
Eliza Haywood (turn of the century before writer who kicked some damn ass and frustrated all those mens competing with the mad scribbling women)
Jeanette Walls (The Glass Castle, memoir)
Louise Erdritch (The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse is a good one, but she writes so many)
Paula Gunn Allen (The Woman Who Owned the Shadows)
Margaret Atwood ♥
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
Jennifer Finney Boylan (She’s Not There)
Jay Prosser (Second Skins)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
bell hooks
Carol Queen
Inga Muscio (her first book is a good intro to some important feminist concepts, although it is problematic. But her second book Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil was more influential to me)
TEMPLE GRANDIN! (OMG)
Gina Kolata (Rethinking Thin)
Linda Bacon (HAES)
Brenda Breuggemann (disability studies)
Melanie Yergeau (disability studies, particularly rhetoric and autism)
Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body)
Karen Walton (cowrote Ginger Snaps)
Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life and Huge, the latter of which she’s doing with her daughter)
Gail Simone (hilarious woman and queen of Birds of Prey)
Serena Valentino (Nightmares and Fairytales)
Lesley Kinsel and Marianne Kirby of Fatcast and Lesley’s intense explication of Lady GaGa
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (with compassionate cooks.com)
Everyone posting on FWD
Without these female voices, my world would be without song:
LADY GAGA
Tori Amos
Regina Spektor
Alanis Morrisette
Jewel
Melissa Etheridge
Jack Off Jill
KidneyThieves
Ace of Base
Luscious Jackson
Courtney Love/Hole
Poe
Lisa Loeb
Salt N Pepa
Tegan and Sara
La Tigre
Tomiko Van/Do As Infinity
Aqua
If you have love to share, copy the description and questions and post to your own journal.
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