Strong female characters
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Re: Strong female characters
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YES THANK YOU... I was trying to find the words, but I don’t need to, there they are.arielkiaira_ wrote: ↑18 Jan 2020, 15:22Don't get me started on how the author botched kelly's character....ArielKiaira wrote: ↑05 Jan 2020, 18:33I agree 100% with everything you said! Kelly's character was so wishy-washy between being a strong female character and being the weak little damsel in distress that everyone needed to care for. Agatha & Sharon were portrayed as "macho women" which is just using women in typically male roles to portray some type of female empowerment that the book doesn't have.amihughson wrote: ↑13 Dec 2019, 13:16 I have to disagree. I don't feel like the female characters really did anything to define themselves as strong. While it is interesting to note that the "bodyguards" are both females in a traditionally male role, as well as the terrorists team leader, them being female came across as inconsequential. Any single female character in this story could have been swapped for a man, and there would literally be no impact on the story itself, with perhaps the exception of Kelly. Kelly was written with more female mannerisms that even LGBT male characters would feel cliched if they exhibited the same behavior. As for strength, Kelly swaps between paranoia, hysterics and general uselessness. Tom showed just as much prowess with technology as Kelly is supposed to have (ie the part where he hacks into a database using his phone) and it seemed like Kelly's only real motivation to be part of "Team USA" was to keep an eye out for Tom and contribute to the supposed "romance" part of this novel. That's not exactly what I think of when I think of a strong female character.
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Exactly, I don't like instances when women are just sidekicks. If the story is about a male protagonist, I would like it to be without any sidekick and vice-versa.
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