I think there's gender parity in most kinds of archetypes (hero/heroine, villain/villainess, antihero/antiheroine). But there seem to be 10x more male "comic fool" archetypes (buffoon, sadsack, windbag,...) than female. The only female one I can actually think of is "ditz".https://twitter.com/vgr/status/983516188163506176 …
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They don’t have to be, but they often are, and are immediately understood by the culture to be, which is part of how archetypes function.
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The buffoon characters you’re talking about work because they have so much power that the other characters have to tolerate them (ala the Duke with his wealth, or the Doctor with his arcane knowledge in commedia del arte)
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Wherever you have female dominated spaces, that’s where those characters emerge.
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