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- 18 Cze 2019
You also had Ripley, Janeway, Xena, Buffy, Scully, Alex Mack, Sarah Connor, Daria, Aeryn Sun, Major Kira, Sam Carter, etc etc. It's always a slow insidious process, nothing like this happens all at once. The whole "badass female protagonist", oh yeah Lara Croft, concept took off in the late 80's to early 90's and kept going bit by bit to current day.
Most of those characters may have been "badass" but they were still very much female, Ripley in Aliens and Sarah Conner's characters revolved around motherhood, Xena, Buffy and Lara Croft were sexy, the first thing anyone noticed about Lara Croft was her large breasts, which breasts are one of the main targets for destruction from our culture by the third wave feminists.
And I'm sure that all have of those characters at least had character flaws and were not the perfect at everything Mary Sues like Rey in Star Wars.
The Mary Sue type characters were born out of fan fiction, ie it was a grassroots thing, it has now been subsumed by mainstream media of course, but it was a mutation that sprung up on it's own, every creative writing class for all of human history up until now would have told you that any good character, male or female, has flaws.
I could be wrong but I just don't believe the powers that be are that clever to be able to project that far into the future.