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The "not like other girls" trope is pretty common in young adult fiction, arguably misogynistic, and usually applied to a female protagonist or love interest. Attempts to make a female character s...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T11:35:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/44254 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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weakdna says reinstate monica
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2019-12-08T11:35:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
The ["not like other girls"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotLikeOtherGirls) trope is pretty common in young adult fiction, arguably misogynistic, and usually applied to a female protagonist or love interest. Attempts to make a female character strong and unique can very easily end up in this territory, even if the author didn't intend to write their female character like that. I write superpowered female characters in YA sci-fi/romance fiction, and I want them to be strong, independent, unique girls, without straying into "not like other girls!!!" territory. I don't want them to be copy/paste characters, predictable in nature, or an acre of water an inch deep, per se. How do I keep my characters unique and avoid this trope?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-04-01T16:47:43Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 40