Aehsassy • Sep 23, 2024
Article The Kawaii Factor in J-Dramas: Female Leads
the problem in pretty much all industries is that (fictional) women are only allowed to exist within pre-set boundaries and stereotypes, they're either cute subservient etc or girlboss mean etc. they're not given the same leeway that their male counterparts are given. humans are complex and containing these characters within certain behaviours, emotions and even thoughts is, like with all bigotry, a form of stereotyping. i feel like when u see a show u can tell which characters the writers/directors considered important enough to explore and which ones they half-assed and in most dramas female characters are the latter. they seem like a collection of tropes over a real person ifykwim? like i said they're either the damsel in distress or highly ambitious and it's irksome. not many realise that depicting different women in diverse situations, including bad/sad ones is not misogynistic but the issue is they're *only* ever depicted in one of those situations. it makes them feel less 3 dimensional, less human, less capable of understanding the range of human experiences and that is the problem. (this happens with all minorities across industries β women, people of different races/ethnicities, lgbt communities all get reduced to a set of usually extremely opposite stereotypes.)
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