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Originally Posted by barryem
There was a time when I was younger that I enjoyed occasional stories about macho guys. Shell Scott and Mike Hammer novels, for example. In those days there weren't many stories about macho women although a few later ones such as Kinsey Milhone were fun to read. But the really masculine women's stories such as Jessica Jones are kind of boring to me.
Barry
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It's a bit funny, because while I generally dislike macho women as protagonists, Jessica Jones is one of the few I actually liked. The reason is that they did not attempt to make her a Mary Sue (another pet peeve of mine). She was kick-ass, but so messed up and dysfunctional at the same time. She was interesting to watch.
What especially grates on me is the protagonists (male or female) who have the best characteristics of both men and women heaped on them in abundance and few or no faults. Who are intelligent, self-confident, courageous, kick-ass, gentle, caring, compassionate, good with kids etc. etc.... all at the same time. That's boring as hell. Unfortunately there are a lot more female characters suffering from this than there are males.