Rough time for characters ladies

Looks like that this saturday is March 8th-- The International Womens Right or something like that. Except, that in current times, the womens' rights around the world and our relationships with them stays murky. The world of fiction have striking hard in the last year by not only, a return to old business with a male-centered corporative mind (Remember Barbie and everything spurred for more movies starring and made by womens? You don't seen this now.) and that past Box-Office failures like the very pointless Mean Girls remake (A musical film, SERIOUSLY?) or the stand-alone Furiosa picture that serve nothing, but mere fanservice and a bitter reception to an audience who are become picky to any "feminist" characters-roles. Now, the traits of heroine become a cliché in and on itself and this is not ready to get the good days back.

The newer Flavor Girls (Too hard to found a French title?) for example, from Loïc Locatelli, is another France thing that made me thinking of another cartoon from the creator of Bravest Warriors, Pentleton Ward. It all started by a webseries that ran fewer seasons before that Nelvana and Corus ordered a much traditional 26-episodes season in 2018. Because the characters are way too much Pentelton Ward, which he was a creative genius who was able to made such minimalistic characters designs with strong arc, likable personalities and mature and provocative themes, but now everyone have started to copying him. Like another series, Elliot au Collège by be like a clone of Ollie's Pack, most French authors have encapsulate and framing the fewer Canadian TV cartoons by thinking to giving it a favor. Like the very derivative Les Héricornes that looks too much a wannabe Mysticons (As very bad it was) rip-off.

Not helped by AI and that the creative world have more womens than mens nowadays, leads-characters who are women or girls become the newer hot thing, althought it wasn't new at all. In the older days, it was a males club, but was still very respectful with the inclusion of females in the writing. That does happening to Jidéhem by his Sophie character, Quino with Mafalda after that. Then, does Walthéry with Natacha and Roger Leloup for Yoko Tsuno. That went the hilarious question if all this were made today, if these guys would be blamed of gender appropriation if in some mentalites like mine's, a content about a women character made by a man (But not the opposite) is like discrimination, sexism and a steal to real-life womens to raise their voices in drawings. This is something that would came up from a hysteric feminist who make stigma to all normal people, but not to a BDs fan.

If it weren't for Anime that raise an authentical voice for all womens at authors and cartoonists all around, womens never would make this job nowadays, no matter how tough the whole artform's future is by the streamings, social medias popularity and when everything on the medium is turning on woke!

2025 remains bittersweet for making the inclusion of female-leads character of such credibility. It need real diversity in face and skip away with fanservice and Rule 34. A genre that is become too stubborn when Internet made the life of riley with characters that are the same, white-Christian/Catholic females ones.

And that in Anthro, it's even worse! You can't be serious to others if all your characters are like the generic Saturday Morning-style of Furries that are sadly looks all the same.

The Kim Possible-heroine mold is sadly a thing from the past. Many people seems to forget that probably one of the greatest animated works of all-time is about make a picture of the Texan residents that are not the tiring Hollywood trope of them saying HEE-HAWW by wear a cowboy hat: King of the Hill.

This is why it is important to made the females characters we've made on at normal people with their own self-interests, issues and traumas. It worked for the original Sailor Moon Anime (The remake, not too much.) because someone seems to have thought deeply of all the repercusions this herd of girls would struggled of their superheroines duties with the ones from the real world. This is also why the creation of Brandy Harrington remains at an alternative of the trope, by be describing like one girl protagonist from normal issues.

But forced heroines from comitees (Like Flavor Girls it seems) become automatically a point of no-return of the many issues of womens in society face to a hatred, savage and nefarious USA President and all the Alpha Influencers from social medias who share the same dated insight that womens have to stays in the ovens. Something that in the case of the Furiosa's movie flop, it went obvious that people have no more tolerance for any stock-rebellious protagonist who been in the real-life a sort of spoiled-brat.

Looks that wer're in a long ride before the inclusion of characters stars at females made by women would gains better publicity and respect to the mainstream market, without all that just went to the elites.