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[surrealistdreamer]

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Just a silly meme that sounds fun.

Comments

[gryphonsegg]

*nods* That's another thing I like about you as a writer: You have the good sense to use character death sparingly and thoughtfully.

[surrealistdreamer]

Thanks! I'm glad my ideas are good.

[gryphonsegg]

Seriously, though, we totally need to write it. After you're finished with Desert Grey, of course.

[surrealistdreamer]

That thing I talked about on your journal post?

[gryphonsegg]

Yes, I meant to post that as a reply to your comment over there. *facepalm*

[surrealistdreamer]

Hehehehe. That's okay. We should totally write that though.

[gryphonsegg]

I've been thinking about how it would make sense in terms of natural selection for at least low-level psychic abilities to be very common among women in such a world. I mean, most of the monsters in those kinds of stories disproportionately kill women at the beginning of their prime childbearing years. The demographic imbalance is even bigger for cases where the monsters don't kill their victims outright; female characters are much more likely than male characters to be rendered magically infertile, enslaved and isolated from other humans, or left insane and unable to take care of any existing children they or their relatives might have. And many of these stories have worldbuilding features such that monsters are basically compelled to be violent towards women. So a family that carries a mutation which gives daughters a the ability to sense superpowered misogynists and stay the hell away from them would have more descendants than a family without that advantage.

[surrealistdreamer]

Ooooo~ Neat. Your world building abilities are great you know that?

[gryphonsegg]

Thank you. *blushes* Your idea about the real villain being some kind of demon that feeds on (specifically) women's misery would fit right in too. This type of story usually doesn't make it quite that blatant, but there's often some contrived explanation for why various magic-powered creatures have to dominate/hurt/enslave/preferentially kill women, like the horrifically uber-patriarchal werewolves in the Mercy Thompson series and the "male badass warriors/female cloistered broodmares" set-up of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and the "Brides of Dracula" nonsense in the Anita Blake books where a lot of bitchy jelly haters get turned into vampires and 90% of vampires of both sexes are Depraved Bisexual stereotypes but the ultimate form of magical/psychic enslavement is something that only male vampires can do to female victims (except for Anita, who can do it despite being neither male nor a vampire because she's just so much better than all other female and/or living beings). Your misery-feeder idea takes what is already implicit in the texts (that a lot of these supernatural phenomena are caused by forces that specifically hate women) and makes explicit.

Also, I've been thinking that this stuff provides some fridge logic for how Ms. Snowflake is so often the Only Girl In The Room even though the surrounding human society has been through three waves of feminism and the supernatural creatures are so much stronger than any human that even the beefiest purely human guy wouldn't be able to fight them using brute strength. Women are disproportionately avoiding jobs in the "vampire slayer/magic detective" field because a woman who goes into that field is actually in much more danger than any man who does the same kind of work-- not because she's fragile or weak (physical differences between the sexes are insignificant compared to differences between vampires or werewolves and ordinary humans) but because the creatures she'd have to have contact with would treat her like a Designated Victim rather than a professional doing her job.

[surrealistdreamer]

She'd walk around with a shirt that reads "Live Bait" basically. And no one wants to fill that position. That position sucks.

Though...maybe this All Girl Team can literally use the combined strength of all their powers and start up their own demon hunting agency where they all go out and fight patriarchy demons.

[gryphonsegg]

Exactly.

YES. This is another good idea. Somebody needs to do something about patriarchy demons, and the men and the typical heroines of the genre certainly don't try to solve this problems in any kind of systematic way.

[surrealistdreamer]

This is a good idea.

Also I made another post. About junk.

[gryphonsegg]

I'll go read it now. I am sure your junk will be better than 98% of the serious posts out there.