gategrrl

When I write women characters (and I don't much in fic because I find the source material so flawed), I try to use the Ripley example. Ripley (from Alien) was conceived, at least according to movie lore, as a non-gendered character. It was only once they got to casting that Ripley became female. As a result, she was written based on the needs of the story, rather than as a character loaded down with 20th century American socio-gender baggage. The result is one of the coolest women characters in the movies.