The only kind of women who tend to hide what they're feeling are ones who are doing it to be manipulative, deceptive, or to conform to fluttery feminine stereotypes. They're strategically disguising their strengths or motives, not bottling up their fears.
I, the, what? Reality aside, even in the Anglo-American narrative tradition referred to elsewhere, this isn't true. I mean, Jane Eyre? Most of the women in worthwhile post-1970s genre fiction?
Maybe by having the color come from spunk, sass, irreverance instead of from suppressed angst?
I think this is the kind of thing that makes female-character-avoidant people avoid female characters in the first place. And again, it's not at all realistic - numberless hordes of female teenagers don't latch onto angst and angst-ridden people because it's a foreign emotion to them (us)!
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Re: I'm not really a writer
Date: 2006-07-07 12:40 am (UTC)I, the, what? Reality aside, even in the Anglo-American narrative tradition referred to elsewhere, this isn't true. I mean, Jane Eyre? Most of the women in worthwhile post-1970s genre fiction?
Maybe by having the color come from spunk, sass, irreverance instead of from suppressed angst?
I think this is the kind of thing that makes female-character-avoidant people avoid female characters in the first place. And again, it's not at all realistic - numberless hordes of female teenagers don't latch onto angst and angst-ridden people because it's a foreign emotion to them (us)!