Making Lovable Female Characters
Why are so many female characters such garbage? Annoying, selfish, ungrateful--and yet those in their stories seem to love and respect them. "What a woman!" When she pulls apart a gun he needs because she can't handle weapons of cruelty--then she'd better shut her mouth, because witty shouldn't be cruelty. She better not opt for a bow and arrow, either, because those really hurt. "I can respect that" with a stupid grin on his face after she gives a spiel on modern sentiments--which, by the way belong to a small percentage of the population--in a time period where that didn't exist. "That's some woman!" Because she slaps him for saving her stupid life--ingrate, die already. Ever want to work with someone like that? What five-letter word comes to mind instead? Men and women both hate her. How about a complete wretch bringing up old news in a time and place where that issue didn't exist? Or in a time and place where that would have got...