So as the permanent antagonist to your arguments, I have to wonder why the proportion of women and men in a story must always be 50/50 for the story to pass the test. Yes, women are always there, in reality, but there are any number of stories wherein there are good, character-driven reasons for a gender imbalance. Should this, then, automatically disqualify that story? For that matter, there are plenty of situations in the real world where there won't be a gender equity for all kinds of reasons, some of which aren't even based on discrimination. Should one not be allowed to write about those?
Why should the scenes/lines be split 50/50? Doesn't this enforce artificial constraints on a story of exactly the kind you want to see eliminated?
Then, you say women "who have not only substantive, important, relevant conversations with each other..." and I have to wonder by whose definitions? Because now you're coming dangerously close to defining substantive and important by the historical male rules, which are the very ones that say that women talking about babies and sewing aren't substantive or important. Shouldn't the women in the story be the ones who determine what conversations are meaningful to them?
OK. That's enough for one night. Have you recovered from Christmas yet? :)
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Date: 2009-01-09 07:03 am (UTC)Why should the scenes/lines be split 50/50? Doesn't this enforce artificial constraints on a story of exactly the kind you want to see eliminated?
Then, you say women "who have not only substantive, important, relevant conversations with each other..." and I have to wonder by whose definitions? Because now you're coming dangerously close to defining substantive and important by the historical male rules, which are the very ones that say that women talking about babies and sewing aren't substantive or important. Shouldn't the women in the story be the ones who determine what conversations are meaningful to them?
OK. That's enough for one night. Have you recovered from Christmas yet? :)