Sort of? There's a great post somewhere about how Hermione Potter, the Girl Who Lived, would be read as an icky old Mary Sue, even if she did the exact same things Harry does in the books. And Harry isn't called Mary Sue or Gary Stu, but a normal male teenager protagonist.
But still not quite. I'm trying to overcome 34 years of societal programming that tells me I don't matter. That tells me I'm only valuable as an accessory to a man (T&A). What I'm doing has nothing to do with men or comparing myself to men. That's what I'm trying to avoid here.
Men have nothing to do with this at all whatsoever, except inasmuch that I'm running into male privilege every three steps.
What gender are the people who are writing these comics? Just curious. Some male comic artists do a good job of writing real female characters, as opposed to cardboard cutouts, or so I hear. It's been a long time since I've read books or comics written by men (unless I already know the male writer doesn't fill his text with egregious misogyny or even run of the mill misogyny. I get enough of that shit in my daily life that I don't need it in my fiction.)
Re: A bit of feminist theory
But still not quite. I'm trying to overcome 34 years of societal programming that tells me I don't matter. That tells me I'm only valuable as an accessory to a man (T&A). What I'm doing has nothing to do with men or comparing myself to men. That's what I'm trying to avoid here.
Men have nothing to do with this at all whatsoever, except inasmuch that I'm running into male privilege every three steps.
What gender are the people who are writing these comics? Just curious. Some male comic artists do a good job of writing real female characters, as opposed to cardboard cutouts, or so I hear. It's been a long time since I've read books or comics written by men (unless I already know the male writer doesn't fill his text with egregious misogyny or even run of the mill misogyny. I get enough of that shit in my daily life that I don't need it in my fiction.)