Seems to me that SFF readers are kinda like the really crazy-savvy users on the web, who want the latest, greatest, and have the newest gadgets and go bonkers over the really opaque interfaces. Partly because they're just savvy like that, and partly (I suspect, sometimes) because it's a bit of cachet to claim you 'get' that obscure/opaque steep-curved interface while everyone else is floundering. It's like the slick interface web2.0 version of, "I only use the command line" geekiness. (Or to quote someone's post about it, "she was already web3.0 when the rest of the world was on AOL.")
Now you've got me thinking of any examples of animated movies with female AND non-human leads. My area is Eastern Asia animation, and... wow. Even Miyazaki (who pretty much consistently does female leads, if not a single female as the lead) is solidly human-female, or at least mostly so. (I presume "witch" is not meant as "not human".) Female and non-human... actually, the only one I can think of are the Korean animated films I've seen (a total of two -- there's an absolutely miniscule selection of homegrown Korean anime, really). Sadly, both of those sucked, but Yobi the Five-Tailed Fox was a definite example of female + nonhuman. If I think of any others, I'll post, but... I can't, so far.
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Date: 12 Jun 2011 02:52 pm (UTC)Now you've got me thinking of any examples of animated movies with female AND non-human leads. My area is Eastern Asia animation, and... wow. Even Miyazaki (who pretty much consistently does female leads, if not a single female as the lead) is solidly human-female, or at least mostly so. (I presume "witch" is not meant as "not human".) Female and non-human... actually, the only one I can think of are the Korean animated films I've seen (a total of two -- there's an absolutely miniscule selection of homegrown Korean anime, really). Sadly, both of those sucked, but Yobi the Five-Tailed Fox was a definite example of female + nonhuman. If I think of any others, I'll post, but... I can't, so far.