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Women hard-asses are “bitches”… until you find the chewy soft center underneath.
by Ifritah
February 15, 2006
I’m currently watching season one of La Femme Nikita with one of my friends. (My first time through.) Madeline’s been my favorite female character since the first episode. She’s cold, unwavering, calm, collected, and all sorts of other stuff. But one thing she’s not is soft.
Then I watched episode 14, “Gambit”. UGH. The episode starts out with her wondering if she’s cut out for the biz of torture and killing for the greater good. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, she’s emotionally cut-off and bad-ass, so of course that would need to stop. I mean, who wants to watch some chick be all kick-ass when we all know what women really want is to be sheltered and buy their naturally desired dream children lollipops?
*Raises her hand* Uh, I do.
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June 15, 2006 at 9:30 am
[...] Ifritah recently wrote a piece about La Femme Nikita where a perfectly good female assassin got a crises of conscience and wonders if she should act like more of a soft, caring woman. I was thinking of it as I threw beer bottles at the TV screen while I watched an episode of All Saints which did a hatchet job on a perfectly good realistic-if-not-saccharine-sweet female character. [...]
September 23, 2006 at 5:40 pm
[...] We’ve done softies, with Ifratah’s piece on La Femme Nikita. We’ve done pathological self-serving bitches, with All Saints. Now I’ll do the complete loonie with Sharon Stone’s character Sheila Carlisle from The Practice. [...]