I like this meme.

[lizbee]

There's this Female Character Flowchart out there that I'm sure most of you have heard of already. If you haven't, let me sum it up for you: basically, all fictional female characters fall into stereotypes and aren't "realistic." [Or, Liz posted about it yesterday!] Also, this flowchart is done in a way that basically anyone can be crammed into one of their categories, as long as you ignore the more three-dimensional aspects of her characterization and focus on the most two-dimensional details available.

Seriously, people who are much more articulate than me have ranted on this subject and explained why it's such a bad thing. That's not what this post is about. You see, this post? Is simply a chance for me to go through my DW/LJ icons and post the ones that I have that feature female characters, whether by themselves, with other women, with men, or simply as part of a group (which wouldn't be whole without them).

Why? Because the thing is, these women are all awesome, in their own unique ways.

Hilariously enough, Dreamwidth's random icon chooser kept trying to select icons with male characters.





Originally posted at http://lizbee.dreamwidth.org/1103785.html. Reply here or at http://lizbee.dreamwidth.org/1103785.html?mode=reply as you choose. comments at DW.

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[infiniteviking]

Of course the natural corollary to this meme would be a complicated algorithm for selecting two or more icons and then writing fic where the characters meet. XDDD *agrees with this meme and glomps shiny shiny girl characters*