And it gets right to the heart of the issue: women's stories aren't often portrayed at all in mainstream media...so when they are, why is it that men are the ones telling our stories?
This is the question that I keep asking myself. Why was Xena's story told by a man? What would it have been if a woman had told it? Why is Buffy's? Or for that matter any of the female icons and heroines? Sara Connor? What would it be like if a woman were telling these tales? What would it be like if a woman were writing the story of Superman or Angel?
And then I look at fanfic, and the fact that most of it is written by women, men do write it - but most of it is by women. Why? Because we don't have the power to be writing the actual story. Angel hired one woman to hire an arc of that tale - a published author with little knowledge of comics, why didn't they try to get one of the original female Angel the series writers? Such as Craft and Fain? And Whedon only has one woman write for him in the comics - Jane Espenson. Couldn't he find any others?
It's not like there aren't women out there who want to write them.
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Date: 2010-05-01 12:45 am (UTC)This is the question that I keep asking myself. Why was Xena's story told by a man? What would it have been if a woman had told it? Why is Buffy's?
Or for that matter any of the female icons and heroines? Sara Connor?
What would it be like if a woman were telling these tales? What would it be like if a woman were writing the story of Superman or Angel?
And then I look at fanfic, and the fact that most of it is written by women, men do write it - but most of it is by women. Why? Because we don't have the power to be writing the actual story. Angel hired one woman to hire an arc of that tale - a published author with little knowledge of comics, why didn't they try to get one of the original female Angel the series writers? Such as Craft and Fain? And Whedon only has one woman write for him in the comics - Jane Espenson. Couldn't he find any others?
It's not like there aren't women out there who want to write them.