Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is LIVE! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
Buffy's legacy
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6236730" data-attributes="member: 17106"><p>The female character thing is really a tip of the iceberg. There isn't much point in expecting male directors, producers, and writers to do female characters as often or as well as they do male characters. There doesn't seem to be a huge push of women into the production side of the business; a slow trickle if anything. If anything, women are better represented in front of the camera than behind it.</p><p></p><p>As to Buffy, I always thought the namesake character was the weak link of the show, and the supporting characters and some of the more innovative writing was what made it work. It seems to me that if anything Hollywood learned the wrong lesson from this show, which was that martial prowess is important. Now we see tons of frequently waiflike women beating up on much larger men (sometimes with supernatural powers for justification, sometimes not), an image that could be seen as cool and subversive when Buffy did it, but is now badly overdone. What we don't see is more reality-based images of violence <em>against</em> women, because it would be too upsetting for the mass audience. We also don't see any really interesting and well-developed female leads who do things other than gratuitous violence, which again I suspect is due to the people writing them.</p><p></p><p>I thought BSG tackled gender issues much better (despite an almost exclusively male creative team behind the scenes), and every significant female actor on that show has had a lot of success since then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6236730, member: 17106"] The female character thing is really a tip of the iceberg. There isn't much point in expecting male directors, producers, and writers to do female characters as often or as well as they do male characters. There doesn't seem to be a huge push of women into the production side of the business; a slow trickle if anything. If anything, women are better represented in front of the camera than behind it. As to Buffy, I always thought the namesake character was the weak link of the show, and the supporting characters and some of the more innovative writing was what made it work. It seems to me that if anything Hollywood learned the wrong lesson from this show, which was that martial prowess is important. Now we see tons of frequently waiflike women beating up on much larger men (sometimes with supernatural powers for justification, sometimes not), an image that could be seen as cool and subversive when Buffy did it, but is now badly overdone. What we don't see is more reality-based images of violence [I]against[/I] women, because it would be too upsetting for the mass audience. We also don't see any really interesting and well-developed female leads who do things other than gratuitous violence, which again I suspect is due to the people writing them. I thought BSG tackled gender issues much better (despite an almost exclusively male creative team behind the scenes), and every significant female actor on that show has had a lot of success since then. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
Buffy's legacy
Top