Well with WoW, gender doesn’t play much of a role/aspect in many societies, outside of old Night elves and RPG headcanon lore. Among the Horde, or Thrall’s Horde particularly, it has almost no impact.
His major complain about the character/book is that a character isn’t written girly enough, because apparantly them being called a “she” by the author & characters isnt enough, they need to specifically be womanly enough for him.
I just don’t see the problem he sees with this situation. The character can certainly be poorly written sure(especially since it’s a Knaak one who is related to Broxigar) but it gives some rather shaky vibes when his complain is “feminism bad, this character isn’t being female enough to be called female!”
So is Ripley from Alien a bad character? Or any of the cast from Alien for that matter? because in the first film, they were all written so they could be either gender.
I like that Orcish woman who served under Saurfang… I forgot her name, but she was pretty awesome going out warring and genociding Night Elves while she has like 8 (?) kids at home
I agree, and that is what I found weird with his critique of the character. Because normally, lady characters get massive flak if they are too expressive about their gender/it being a focus point, but now the opposite is also equally bad somehow?
As said, there are just badly written characters on both ends of the spectrum. but to tar ALL of them with the same brush?
Like my Ripley example; Ridley Scott was originally going to make her male because Halloween had just come out a few years prior and he didn’t want a final girl cliche.
Which is why Ripley is the ultimate bad-butt when dealing with the Xenomorph.
EDIT: A good example of the other end of the spectrum here (a character written to be a woman first) is Clarice Starling, you know a bad-butt lady in a man’s world which is often pointed out in Silence of the Lambs.
after all the innocent scourge she murdered at the Wrathgate? cringe bro!
