Like we never get to be fucking badass, but profoundly personally flawed and gross and unsexy and like a fucking mess but in a badass way not a tragic way. We’re always victims or villains when we’re a mess and it sucks.
I’m so sick of feminist media with these heroines who are just like blandly good, and like righteously badass in a nice socially acceptable way and respectable and modestly dressed and like pretty but not “too” pretty.
Fuck that. I hate that. Give me crass heroines who make dirty jokes. Give me drunks with hatchet faces. Give me women voices of a generation who are shit to be in relationships with. Give me women in “too much” makeup who are the deepest and most insightful people in the room and bitter as fuck. Give me women who are naked in a profoundly unsexy way, but aren’t humiliated or ashamed.
Fuck respectable “practical” armor that looks bland as shit, and fuck mindlessly sexy armor too. Give me shit that looks cool.
I don’t want to have to be nicer, sweeter, and less morally ambiguous than men to deserve my own story. I don’t want to have to be practical to be believable as a hero. Let me rush into battle in a fucking loincloth but not because you wanna see my titties. Respectable heroines make me gag. Give me women like the best of 90s anti-heroes. Give me gritty women. Give me complex not necessarily actually good women. Give me unlikable women who are still protagonists.
I’m so sick of women having to be angels to avoid being cast as demons.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 