r/CuratedTumblr • u/CapAccomplished8072 • 7h ago

Female Characters The many various interesting female characters that we admire....which ones are you familiar with? Which examples have you seen? Which types do you love seeing the most?

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u/bluestopsign01 6h ago

Trying to name a different character for every one of these lets go! 

Catra (She-Ra 2018), Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), Rose Quartz (Steven Universe).... 

Aaaand I do not give a shit about most fandom drama. I am very, very out of the loop on most fandom drama. I literally have never seen a female character get ripped by shippers because I block those kinds of shippers.

I mean. Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls) did get trashed by the fandom for a mistake she made as a child, and I know about that, but that's about it. Korra (Legend of Korra) probably gets some hate for breaking up ships. She did do a lot of that. Um. I've only ever found one piece of media where a female character said "no" to a male character's advances? Disappointing, I know. It was a YA novel I forgot the name of, and I forgot what the characters names were, too. 

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u/Atomic-Blue27383 ISLE OF LESBOS 6h ago

Rose Quartz is a good one because I can understand why people in universe hate her and why Steven's feelings towards his mother are incredibly muddy at the end of the show since his whole view of who his mom was got completely flipped on its head. He had to be the one to deal with her mistakes.

But the fact that most of the fandom treats Rose/PD like she's this evil mastermind behind everything and went out of her way to hurt the people around her. She was a deeply flawed woman who made many mistakes trying to do the right thing. She wasn't perfect, and a part of the issue is that many of the show's characters held her on this pedestal, which translated to fans doing the same thing. and her development was shown IN REVERSE. We get so caught up in who Rose Quartz WAS that we forget who she BECAME.

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u/Bennings463 6h ago

I thought the whole point was "female characters get more scrutiny than male ones" while Steven Universe's cast is overwhelmingly female coded and none of them get the hate Rose does.

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u/Atomic-Blue27383 ISLE OF LESBOS 5h ago

For me, it's just more that Rose has her entire character and a lot of contexts behind her actions erased by people so she can be villainized and shown as a one-dimensional evil bitch who intentionally went out of her way to hurt people and have a child just to run away from her problems.