Date: 2011-04-25 09:21 am (UTC)
meridian_rose: pen on letter background  with text  saying 'writer' (legend of the seeker: cara smile)
Well I'm only working on season one characterisation, so how everyone develops will be interesting when I do get to see season two.
I'm not offended. I think we're coming at the 'text' from different angles.
I suppose it all depends on what you see as 'typical male' and 'typical female' in media terms - the paradigm, you might say, the representation against which a character is measured.
Typical Male for me might be 'I am always right/know best, I am the hero of the story, Ends justify the means, Intellect over emotion'.
Typical Female might be 'I am mainly the love interest, I put emotions over intellect, I exist to make the hero look good, I put others before myself - or I act selfishly to secure a husband'
Since I see Alicia as being the hero and trying to secure a career and gain respect on her own merits, while Will mainly seems to chase after Alicia, I peg her as showing more 'traditionally masculine' traits and Will as more 'traditionally feminine' traits, at least as far as media portrayals go.
I don't know how old you are, but I know I grew up with more female role models than my mother, but less than I have now. It's the difference between 'Terminator' with the damsel in distress and 'Terminator Two' with a kickass heroine. Media moves on slowly; we're starting to see more fully realized female characters - 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chroicles' has a kickass heroine who is also in touch with her emotions.
I use the examples only to try and explain why I probably have particular ideas of media male roles vs female roles. Not so long back, Cara wouldn't have existed or would have been male - snarky badass is a traditionally male role - and Kahlan would have been far less a proficient fighter, needing Richard to rescue her more often :D
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