{"id":4065,"date":"2016-03-20T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T21:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2016-03-20T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T21:33:05","slug":"why-its-so-difficult-to-write-disagreeable-women-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Where Are Our Female Sherlock Holmes & Dr House? Why It\u2019s So Difficult to Write Disagreeable Women Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u00a0\n

M<\/span>y <\/p>Uber rating<\/span><\/a> is 4.21. I\u2019m reliably informed that that puts me barely a notch above serial killers and kidnappers. I must be a horror to ride with. <\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s true, I am. <\/span>\n\nMy time on the road is sacrosanct \u2013 I tackle most of my thinking, daydreaming, and imaginary conversations during the 40-minute drive to my regular caf\u00e9 three kilometres away. So barring the mandatory \u201cGood morning \u2013 chaliye bhaiya \u2013 thank you, trip stop kar dijiye\u201d salutations, I have little to say to the undoubtedly wonderful people driving me to my <\/span>destination<\/span><\/a>. I speak only when I\u2019m spoken to, and unless it is something that <\/span>must<\/span><\/i> be communicated, I discourage any attempts at small talk. That instantly makes me unlikeable. I\u2019ve watched dozens of drivers discreetly knock a star off of my rating, as if silently berating me for treating a service like a financial transaction and not an opportunity to swap life stories. <\/span>\n\nThe point I\u2019m trying to make is, women bear the burden of niceness in every <\/span>relationship<\/span><\/a> or random interaction, like my stoic silence with drivers I might never see again. This pressure to be affable is so immense and widespread that even fictional women can\u2019t escape it. <\/span>\n\nLet me explain. Like half the clientele of Starbucks, I\u2019m writing a novel. My <\/span>protagonists<\/span><\/a> are three women. I\u2019ve spent a significant part of the last two years trying to build and mould their characters in a way that is compatible with the central and the sub-plots of my book. And now I\u2019m thoroughly fed up. You see, I want my characters to display their own individual brands of neuroses \u2014 be rude, mean, selfish, snarky, and behave like jerks because people sometimes act like assholes simply because they can. The problem is, I don\u2019t yet know how to.<\/span>\n\nLike most fiction writers, I learned \u2014 and am still learning \u2014 writing through observation and imitation, and surprisingly (or maybe not) I\u2019m hard pressed to find references for fictional female characters that are are unlikeable. Overwhelmingly, the women I\u2019ve encountered in <\/span>literature<\/span><\/a> and pop culture are defined by their niceness, rarely with any other aspects to their personalities. It doesn\u2019t matter whether she is a doctor in a high-pressure life-or-death environment, or a teenager braving high school, the central character must have entire episodes\/chapters devoted to underlining her empathy and compassion. And on the rare occasion that the said character might step out of line, there is always a good rationale to explain away the transgression. Extenuating circumstances are created, or a situation developed to justify her out-of-character behaviour. But a central female character who is inherently a prick just because that\u2019s how she is wired? Rarely, if ever. \u00a0<\/span>\n

Overwhelmingly, the women I\u2019ve encountered in literature and pop culture are defined by their niceness, rarely with any other aspects to their personalities.<\/blockquote>\nCan you imagine a Shirley Holmes as smugly arrogant as Sherlock Holmes was? Her career would be over before it ever took off: There would be no grudging respect from a Dr Watson or Inspector Lestrade. A Miss Darcy as aggressively disagreeable as Mr Darcy wouldn\u2019t have a chance in hell of getting her happily-ever-after. And while Mr Rochester is voted the most romantic hero in literature by Mills and Boon readers in 2009 \u2013 despite treating Jane Eyre like dirt, and proposing to her while keeping his <\/span>wife<\/span><\/a> locked up in the attic<\/span><\/i> \u2013 Daisy Buchanan\u2019s single-minded devotion to self-interest is a cautionary tale about how the love of the \u201cwrong\u201d woman can destroy even the mightiest men, like Jay Gatsby. \u00a0<\/span>\n\nWhile male characters can be disgusting, evil, abrasive, depressed, depressing, women characters are mostly pretty, passive, and perfect, barring a few outliers. Sometimes, they\u2019re allowed to be fiesty and strong too, but very rarely at the cost of their niceness. Because let\u2019s face it, in an equal world, a girl as sharp as <\/span>Hermione<\/span><\/a> would dump Ron\u2019s sorry ass for being the bumbling, blithering idiot that he so clearly was. <\/span>\n\nBut every once in a while, literature and pop culture produce women that are delightfully wicked and self-serving, to the point that you\u2019d want to cross the road to avoid them. Scarlett O\u2019Hara (<\/span>Gone With The Wind<\/span><\/i>) and Estella Havisham (<\/span>Great Expectations<\/span><\/i>) are both <\/span>selfish<\/span><\/a> and self-serving, bordering on cruel. The problem is they\u2019re too few and far in between. <\/span>\n\nWorse than not having casually unlikeable female icons who are not vamps, is the avalanche of \u201c<\/span>rebellious<\/span><\/a> heroines\u201d. You know them \u2013 the ones whose recklessness is peppered with just enough cuteness to make the transition from Poo to Parvati not seem jarring, as soon as there is a man in the picture worth giving up their personalities for. Case in point, <\/span>Manmarziyan<\/span><\/i>\u2019s Rumi; refreshingly irritating, rude, and a rebel without a cause, but her impetuousness is merely a plot device that makes her irresistible to a man. Same for <\/span>Gilmore Girls\u2019<\/span><\/i> Lorelai and Rory, both of whom would be so much more intriguing if their exploitativeness and selfishness were acknowledged as core parts of who they were, instead of cute character quirks. \u00a0<\/span>\n
When you undertake the masochistic task of creating a work of fiction, it changes the way you interact with fictional characters.<\/blockquote>\nWhen you undertake the masochistic task of creating a work of fiction, it changes the way you interact with fictional characters. You don\u2019t just devour the stories \u2014 you scrutinise and dissect every single character and compare it to your own. After almost 24 months of picking apart every book I\u2019ve laid hands on within the genre I\u2019m attempting, I\u2019ve realised that men \u2014 even fictional ones \u2014 tend to fall in love with clueless women. The level of cluelessness in a women varies \u2014 either these female characters are unaware of how heart-stoppingly gorgeous they are or indifferent to how refreshingly interesting their opinions seem to the men observing them. Some are an odious combination of both: They are blessed with beauty and intellect, but are also \u201cnice\u201d enough to be unaffected by any of it. It is this serene state of eternal obliviousness that the heroine exists in instantly attracts her <\/span>Prince Charming<\/span><\/a>. Think Anastasia Steele (<\/span>Fifty Shades of Gray<\/span><\/i>) and Bella Swan (<\/span>Twilight<\/span><\/i>). After all, what good are any of these traits if there is no man around to admire them? <\/span>\n\nAs a woman who has a firm grasp on reality, I don\u2019t see why I need to get behind a literary tradition that thrives on this forced ignorance of seemingly smart women. This cognitive dissonance necessitated by two such starkly contradictory states of existence boggles my first-time (<\/span>feminist<\/span><\/a>) writer\u2019s mind. After all, it is the absence of human female characters and icons in literature and pop culture that contributes to the grand tradition of women feeling the need to constantly minimise their achievements, downplay their strengths, knowledge and expertise, and reject the jagged, unique edges of their personalities that make them, <\/span>them. <\/span><\/i>I hope my women are nothing like that.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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