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The three harpies discussing my most favourite trope ever: The heroines that have much more to offer than just physical beauty (and are sometimes – gasp! – outright unattractive) and the supernaturel/magical men who love them.
It’s still incredibly hard to find this kind of narrative but lately it seems to get better. For example there is a huge franchise that features a very capable heroine and a troubled man in possession of mysterious powers….yes I’m talking about Star Wars.😉 (I’m aware that Daisy Ridley is a beautiful woman, but Rey isn’t framed as typical pretty girl or femme fatale.)
When I watched TFA for the first time I almost couldn’t believe that of all franchises out there my old love Star Wars would give me this kind of story. It felt surreal and I felt vindicated because after I (or all media consuming women) had to suffer through so many male self insert hero fantasies where women were mere accessories or prizes finally a type of story which is very apealing to women is presented to a huge (HUGE!) audience. And since almost two years I’m hoping for Reylo to be successful not only because I’d love for Rey and Kylo to truly find each other but also because I hope that after Reylo we get more and more narratives like this one in all kinds of media.
Anyway, great podcast!!! Very insightful, funny and full of awesome recommendations.
Monsters and Villains 