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OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5hr ago
The writers are a husband-wife pair (I think they said the wife is mostly responsible for the story, the husband mostly responsible for the art), the title literally has "Girl" in the name, and the main character is a woman.
That said, it does have the old-style male adventure feel. Sometimes as parody, sometimes seriously.
I think we can say it has broad-spectrum appeal. I went to their Facebook page and looked at the names of the people who liked the latest comic page, it seemed about 50/50 male-female split.
I guess it all depends on what a "girl" story is. If girl story is only defined as a story that men avoid then of course we won't find any "examples of "girl" stories that aren't cringe pandering softcore-relationship-porn wish fulfillment only (lame) women find appealing"
philosoraptor
5hr ago
receive an equity stake in Intel in exchange for cash grants
How does this differ from just buying shares?
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
5hr ago
I've been keeping tabs on that one. Ex-Combat Extended modders from Rimworld, one of the mods I simply can't play without. It turns the combat in the game from two retards with bent muskets shooting each other in a greased room after sunset into something with a semblance of realism. Unfortunately, the game had had a very rocky development. The previous publisher went bankrupt, the new one was only able to provide partial funding. They were forced to release into EA in a very barebones state, and it's simply not a very good day circa today. I remain cautiously hopeful, the idea has great potential.
Jiro
5hr ago
I would not count Girl Genius as a girl story. It isn't aimed at a female audience, at least I don't think it is.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
5hr ago
You can't shoot then move, even if you use only half your movement range. Once again, in the absence of specific perks.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
The default for secular western women is an obese woman too unpleasant to hook the men she does manage to attract, but that's ok because she has no way of knowing if she can trust him anyways.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5hr ago
Girl Genius perhaps. Though there is a romantic subplot, the main female character explicitly chooses the well-being of her people/land over and above romance.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5hr ago
Christopher Ruccio is doing a pretty interesting job.
chooky
6hr ago
Greenwitch won the Newberry, so the series would be a pretty common read for 1990s kids.
erwgv3g34
6hr ago
She just has to avoid failing; she wins by default. It's completely different from a man, who can be nice, safe, reliable, and still end up completely overlooked.
There is a reason Fluttershy is the most popular of the mane six. Butterscotch would have ended up FA.
It's amusing how online women will complain about "men writing women."
Yet, the archetypal outcome of a male author writing a female protagonist for a male audience is an unrealistically strong and independent badass female protagonist, like Samus or Lara Croft.
The archetypal outcome of a female author writing a female protagonist for a female audience is a realistically passive, hypoagentic female protagonist, like Bella from Twilight or Anastasia from 50 Shades of Grey.
A 2008 British study of about 4,000 children aged 4–16 found that only 5% of boys preferred books with a girl protagonist, while 22% of girls were comfortable with male protagonists.
I didn't read the article or the paper. However, those aren't parallel statements, as currently written. The percentage of boys comfortable with girl protagonists could be higher than 5%. The percentage of girls who prefer boy protagonists could be lower than 22%.
Heroism generally involves some combination of self-sacrifice, self-improvement, hyper-agency, hyper-competency, physical and/or mental strength. Based upon their Lived Experiences of interacting with boys/men and girls/women, it'd be sensible that readers (whether it be boys, girls, men, or women) would more easily suspend disbelief for a male hero than a female heroine. And that girls/women would find a male hero more plausible than boys/men a female heroine.
It's like how preteens will more readily accept teenaged or adult heroes than vice versa, teenagers will more readily accept adult heroes than vice versa. And adults are usually disinterested in works where the protagonists are preteens or teenagers (sometimes even young adults)—a common gripe is that even kid side characters are a negative value-add to a story, just a source of annoyance, "idiot plot," and plot armor.
gattsuru
6hr ago
You've got a strong skill for explanations available to outsiders, so I've got a pretty decent number in that category. Here you also go into both the appeal of the genre and a lot of its weaknesses, and how they could be much stronger if writers engaged with them more critically, in ways that even a lot of strong fans of the genre (and even some Digimon fans!) tend to overlook.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6hr ago
I mean other than that congress would get even less done with thousands of members? I think the size limit is needed simply because there’s no way that a 3000 member house is going to get any useful work done. 500 members is already pretty big, and the current congress hasn’t passed a proper budget in over a decade. Adding more people to the body isn’t going to fix the inertia.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
6hr ago
There were lots of hot Indian girls in my New Jersey high school. But Indians aren't very popular on 4chan's /gif/ and /s/ boards, so I haven't seen many hot ones since leaving high school.
Checking Pornhub, I am somewhat astonished to see that, if I search for "bikini" and filter by the Indian category, there are only 89 matching videos on the entire site (versus 1712 in the Asian category), and most of them are not particularly appealing.
Searching for "india pageant" on YouTube reveals Miss Universe India 2025 Grand Finale, which is five hours long. You could use that as a guide for what the subcontinent's exemplars of beauty look like.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6hr ago
Phones.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6hr ago
Interestingly, also seems to be a Kickstarter in progress right now.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6hr ago
I think a lot of modern writers directors and producers are simply unaware of why a given decision was made, so they end up copying the look and mannerisms without understanding why it worked or why it doesn’t work in their context.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6hr ago
I can't really say; it just didn't grab me. Part of it is that frankly, the Napoleonic era is just not a setting that has ever interested me much.
erwgv3g34
7hr ago
Big Fat Liar (2002). Surprisingly good for a kid's film; the "Hungry Like the Wolf" pool scene is very memorable, as is the "I Wish" warehouse montage, and, of course, the "Right Here, Right Now" helicopter ride. And, yes, very 2000's; right up there with Shrek (2001) and Digimon: The Movie (2000).
Well, uh... awkward. And a bit embarrassing. But glad it resonated, and thank you for answering.
Cheers!
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