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[chocolatepot]

It's really funny to me that I love Sansa so much and am so interested in her story when this seems to be a minority opinion even among people who are not hostile to the female characters, especially because when you look at the YA historical fantasy I've read, I tend to get very annoyed at the young noblewomen even when they aren't the Arya type. I don't know if I'd say that Sansa's a subversion of what I dislike, exactly, but it's interesting to see where she differs from them - mainly in that she's in actual danger and doesn't solve things by being ~feisty~. You know? Instead of her parents threatening to marry her to someone old and unpleasant, she's actually engaged to a total asshole and has to find out the depths of his assholery herself, and then later. Instead of being kind of petulant and rebelling against her parents/guardians, she's completely on her own. Instead of her actions having token consequences, she accidentally helps to get her father killed (although let's be serious, people who complain that it was all her fault - that probably would have happened anyway). Instead of all of the antagonists being strangely sexless or only menacing in a sort of vague way, there's a lot of real threat.

This is sort of like my Empowered issue, only the opposite - apparently I prefer a character who gets less narrative time but has real Bad Things going on to a protagonist who's always there but whose danger I don't believe in. Or something. I'm kind of tired.

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[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

"Not feisty for shit" is a perfect descriptor for myself as well. I definitely think it's pretty sexist to hate on her the way I always see people do it.