http://rodentfanatic.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] rodentfanatic.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts 2009-01-11 12:36 am (UTC)

Haha! I've never seen that, but it sounds awesome. Well, that part does. My friend has an RP character who is very glamorous, beautiful, and sexy, and I consider her a really feminist character, since just because she's "feminine" in no way makes her a pushover. She's a diva, a queen, and she enjoys sex for herself instead of just being there to inspire desire in others. She's girly, glitzy, loves rhintesones and feather boas and dressing up as Marie Antoinette, but she's also no-nonsense and kickass. I think replacing Anita with her would make for better books. Except, you know, she's blond and thus eeeevil *eyeroll*

I've also always wanted to see an over-the-top "queen" of a gay man being powerful, a strong fighter, etc., and fleshed out into a whole personality in a work of fiction, since too many times I've seen that stock character simply pulled out too many times to serve as comic relief and painted as weak simply because of his femininity and sexuality, and as being nothing more than his orientation. I know this seems kind of a tangent, but I think the need for genuinely strong female characters is superseded only by the need for strong gay male characters, be they Brokeback Mountain manly-men or The Birdcage queens, or somewhere in-between like most that I know are, and not written as "wussy" because of it or as strong "despite" their sexuality >:I

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