Maybe we don't have many stories about "believable, competent identifiable" women because as soon as a woman becomes competent she becomes less believable? Just a sad thought. Oh yes, and as soon as she becomes identifiable perhaps then she is a Mary Sue?
Then again, perhaps the Mary Sue is not so much a negative phenomena as a positive one, redressing (in times not so long past) how women couldn't do anything and so perhaps writers made their somen do the interesting things they were always too scared to do. The bite back was when people got sick of those stories because they weren't so important anymore, but now everyone is still "looking" for Mary Sue's and if you're looking for things - well, you often find them, whether they're there or not :)
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Date: 2009-02-06 11:48 am (UTC)Then again, perhaps the Mary Sue is not so much a negative phenomena as a positive one, redressing (in times not so long past) how women couldn't do anything and so perhaps writers made their somen do the interesting things they were always too scared to do. The bite back was when people got sick of those stories because they weren't so important anymore, but now everyone is still "looking" for Mary Sue's and if you're looking for things - well, you often find them, whether they're there or not :)