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Any one want to suggest how we perspective writers can minimize this debate while still utilizing this trope? It's good character developing drama (in Little Woman [haven't wanted to watch GOT]) but I wouldn't want the drama to divide the fandom and continue after the book (or other media)

In the endless discussion of female gender presentation in fiction pop culture, I've noticed a slight trend.

When a fictional tomboy and girly girl are portrayed as foils to each other – especially if they're sisters – the majority of fans will claim that the girly girl is "privileged" while the tomboy is the underdog. But a decent number of other fans will backlash against this idea and claim that the tomboy is the real "privileged" one.

I've definitely seen this in discussions of Little Women's Jo and Amy, and if I'm not mistaken, it's common in discussions of Arya and Sansa in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones too.

This is the gist of the debate:

Fans of the tomboy see the girly girl receive the social rewards that are won by performing femininity and ladylike manners, while the tomboy is socially punished and shamed for not being ladylike. They empathize with the tomboy's jealousy of the girly girl, and they resent the girly girl for it, viewing her as the one who has all the luck and gets all the love and respect.

The counterargument is that the tomboy actually receives more love and respect than the girly girl does. If not from society in general, then from family members and friends, especially male ones. They adore the tomboy and find her boyishness and wildness endearing, whereas they judge and ridicule the girly girl for her "silly," "vain" feminine tastes, even if they love her too. They don't give her as much attention or understanding as they give the tomboy, which must be very hard for her, and which the tomboy fails to appreciate.

It's an interesting debate, because there's always truth on both sides.

In a pre-20th century setting, and maybe today too, there is no "privileged" gender presentation for girls. Tomboyishness might be seen as endearing in a child or a teenager, but even among the people who love the tomboy the most, there's an understanding that can only be temporary; as a woman, she'll need to be "tamed" and learn to perform femininity. Meanwhile, girly girls are mocked as "silly," "vain," "prissy," etc., but it's also understood that they're behaving exactly the way they're supposed to behave. Young men in period settings might have more friendships with tomboys, but it's the girly girls whom they usually favor romantically. Both forms of gender presentation are punished in some way or other. Misogyny makes it a no-win situation.

The claim that girly girl characters get less attention from their families than their tomboy sisters is probably subjective, though. I'll let individual readers decide whether or not they think Ned Stark neglects Sansa, the March parents favor Jo over Amy, etc.

We also tend to see the claim from fans of the girly girl character that the author is biased in the tomboy's favor. But that's another issue for another post.

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The age of superheroes finally arrives. Your power is that whenever you step into a room, it is immediately cleaned to perfection. At first you think it’s useless but you realize that by cleaning people’s rooms you get paid and thus gets funding to buy tech to match other heroes and villains.

When humanity enters the galactic stage we find that our history of violence is quite unusual, but not because we wreaked unimaginable death and destruction upon each other, but rather because we stopped eventually.

You can time travel at the snap of your fingers. You mainly use this ability to get gas for your vehicle at $0.50 per gallon.

This was fun and it didn't hurt too much ;)

Hey everyone! I’ve got this assignment for school, and for one of the parts I need to get some statistics. 

It’s about character building, and if any writers seeing this could fill out this form, I would very much appreciate it. It shouldn’t take too long.

If you’re not a writer, please don’t fill this out.

And like with polls, please share for a bigger sample size.

Not sure if AJ was the the worst but absolutely despise him and a lot of the policy changes he brought into our country in a lot of different areas.

Worst US president: Andrew Jackson. Made the policy switch by which the US stopped viewing Native American nations as foreign states to be dealt with diplomatically and started viewing the their land as up for the taking, paving the way for 150+ years of genocide.

Best US president: Abraham Lincoln. Freed the slaves.

Very sad but SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS THE OCTOPUS STORY. Don't jeopardize your grades or anything but We Need To Know!! Find one of your classmates hopefully one that can repeat a story well and find out. We will be waiting right next to our screens until you get back

“Walrus on your doorstop” this “fairy’s more unrealistic” that my professor just uttered the sentence “there was one day I found a real octopus in my backyard” this man hasn’t left Utah his entire life. How was there an octopus in his backyard in Utah. He then said “I do not have time to elaborate we need to cover a lot today in class” GIRL WHAT DO YOU MEEAN

The villain stares, confused. This was the hero destined to kill him. This was the hero destined to ‘save the world’. This was the hero who trained their whole life to kill him. So why… why did he surrender to his guards? He should know that he’ll be imprisoned forever, with no way out…

Thanks for the resource

After reading it I was wondering about Mia

I am basically monolingual (English) with Canadian core French (fairly useless) and some Korean. I lived in France for 3 months and spent the whole time hearing my name pronounced wrong because it has a "th" sound. This made me wonder, what would be a universally pronouncible name?

From what I know: can't be an L/R name because some languages don't distinguish that boundary, no J because some languages don't have that sound, no TH obviously, really avoid H in general. So I think, heavy on the vowels, what about Adam? My colleague who speaks Japanese informed me that in Japanese M must be paired with a vowel sound, so Adam was impossible but Aiden would work.

So I was thinking, Miyo, maybe Eve? I know that sometimes a word will have a different meaning in another language, but let's ignore that. What name would be easily pronouncible in the most languages? It doesn't have to follow name rules in every language, just be a normal name from a language that other people can say without distorting. Is there a chart somewhere that shows sound overlap for languages? Does every language have M? I'm so curious.