Birds of Prey - 82% RT, and good audience reception

[Jaicee]

shikamaru317 said:

And again, you judge me, saying that I’m a certain type. You might have been in arguments with somebody else here on VGC, but it sure as shoot wasn’t me, so please stop labeling me and lumping me in with others.

For your information, I’m no more a fan of Gary Stu’s than I am of Mary Sue’s. Bad writing is bad writing, designing a character with too many unearned strengths and few or no weaknesses is bad writing. As a writer myself, I will always call our bad writing. Good writing is building up a character over time, showing their struggles as they overcome them, so that the readers/viewers can relate to them, not building some all-powerful character whom everything comes easy to without them having to work at it.

Perhaps in the future try not to judge or label others quite so readily based on a few sentences over the internet. This will be my last response to this, I usually avoid discussions about this sort of thing but you called me out for some reason or other.

This will be my final reply on this subject as well because I'm tired of having this same conversation on every film-related thread.

The "some reason" for which I called you out was because you dedicated a whole response to complaining about the existence of what you called "girl power" movies, which I couldn't help but feel had sexist undertones because the people who write like that are usually the same ones who have also spent the last decade or so participating in misogynistic online activist movements like #GamerGate, #StarWarsFans, etc. Maybe, maybe I have lumped you in with those sorts of scenes incorrectly based on preferred lingo and convenient, typical selection of film highlights...but if so, you can forgive me for reaching that conclusion given the tone and context of the post in question, no?