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The most hilarious thing I have ever read in relation to Joss Whedon
Nodaisho:
And of course, it seems like she survived the war more through skill (sneaking up behind an alliance soldier and cutting his throat, on rubble, in boots), where as mal just got very lucky (running, yelling, and shooting not even bothering to take cover).
I think that the writer of the blog thinks that a woman shows empowerment by hating men. That is all that she seems to do, hate everything that men do. I kind of feel sorry for her, she can't be a happy person with that much hate going on.
Ozy, how about Honor Harrington? She is kind of a mary-sue, but she is an authority figure. Not the leader of the whole navy or anything, but only subordinate to a few people. Granted, some of those are males (at least one of them is a woman), but she is usually given free reign within her assignment to do as she sees fit.
muteKi:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 27 Mar 2008, 21:17 ---I'm trying hard to find female authority figures in sci-fi, particularly.
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Depending on how strict your definition is, maybe Princess Sally from the old Sonic the Hedgehog Saturday morning cartoon?
She was capable, smart, cool-headed and could definitely take care of herself, and really did have a legitimate leadership position while Sonic did most of the grunt "hero" work, though that said she certainly also put herself in the front lines quite regularly.
LordNagash:
Samus Aran, from the sci-fi games series collectively called Metroid. As mentioned before, Ripley from Aliens. Dr Crusher from Star Trek next generation. While not the captain herself, she had athority over Picard if she needed to. Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell (more Stand Alone Complex than the first 2 movies.) I am sure there are more.
Jackie Blue:
Sally Shears/Molly Millions from Gibson's early work. That girl did not take shit from anybody and she would (quite literally) cut you if you tried anything wise on her.
Scruffy:
I was going to write an individual retort for each of the four main female characters, but I decided that replying to a feminist saying Firefly was sexist is like removing wallpaper with handfulls of sand.
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