[AnonymousBosch]

(07-14-2014 06:43 PM)BortimusPrime Wrote:  

Apparently the term for this is a Mary Sue. (Aptly named in this case with a gay character...) According to tvtropes it got started with female written fanfictions displaying all the properties you describe, except the fanfic author has inserted a version of herself into the story as the perfect character.

Sometimes it's a self-insert, most of the time it's an idealised version themselves that has all the qualities they wished they possess, so you end up with shit like this.



The myth is that it only happens in fan fiction, not every fucking Op Ed piece a woman writes. You end up with bollocks like that HuffPo piece the other day, where a woman is trying to gain sympathy for an apparent rejection, whilst still making it clear he desired her in every other way. (Head / heart / laughter / smile blah blah).

There is not one woman writing these media pieces who isn't writing an idealised version of herself so her female audience identifies with her and wants to be her friend. They possess no human failings and faults. They're always unique and special whilst not being unique and special enough to risk dislike. The pattern is apparent, and you obviously question whilst every writer you're reading is, by her own subtle admission, perfect in every way, yet you've never met one woman who wasn't flawed in some way in real life.

All female journalism is just wish fulfilment, status joustling and the seeking of approval, which is why the field has decayed into utter moronic solipsism now they're the majority of journalism graduates.