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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Generally, I don't resonate with identity in media - race/sex doesn't matter as long as it's a good story. But I did feel this for the first time watching Wonder Woman. The movie wasn't even all that great but I felt weird secondhand pride cause the protagonist was female.
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@Aella_Girl
I completely did not expect that the movie would make me feel the part of my character that's 'woman' shaped so strongly, and also made me feel for the first time the lack of that shape in that particular main role in other scifi/fantasy media.
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@OfficialAPoD
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@Aella_Girl
It might be one of the first big-name films that highlighted the protagonists' femininity without it falling into a zero-sum game of "woman good/man bad". There have been some positively badass female protagonists out there but their womanliness wasn't part of the movie's theme.
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@Aella_Girl
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Maybe so? I'm a bit confused why I didn't get the 'woman pride' thing from other female-led movies. It's possible that it's just the superhero genre, which has been very male dominated. Other media that made me feel 'woman pride' has been Firefly and Star Trek Voyager and DS9.
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@Aella_Girl
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To clarify, I said WW was the first time, but I think it was first time I felt it that consciously. The Firefly and ST gave me feelings which in hindsight I'm identifying as the female pride thing.
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