Female-Driven Genre-Fiction Wishlist:
Girl teams, all girl teams.
Female characters of color who actually represent their culture.
Less self-sacrificing, martyr girls more girls and women who do things for themselves without feeling bad about it or people judging them for it.
Mothers who do things other than parent and cook.
Mother and daughter characters who don’t hate each others guts.
No more “I’m not like the other girls”.
Girl characters who are good at math and science.
More poor female characters, who come from nothing, and exploring how that effects their heroism. And I don’t mean like middle-class poor, I mean, like having to chose between food and paying bills poor.
Girls who don’t like each other, but can still respect each other.
No more girl heroes/villains whose tragic backstory is getting raped.
No more female characters of color dying or sacrificing themselves for white female characters.
More fat girl characters in fantasy and other genre fiction who are the ones kicking-ass and taking names and being haled the hero. That are defined by something other than their weight.
More girls of various body-types other than “lean.”
More disabled characters in stories that aren’t necessarily about their disability.
More unattractive girl characters.
Girls that are not looking for relationships or losing their virginity.
More non-binary female characters.
More LGBTAQ+ female characters.
“Strong” female characters who actually do things other than fight all the time and have a personality.
More “strong” female characters whose “strength” is something other than fighting.
No more stories sold as “feminist” in which only the leading character is female and everyone else is man, and only other female characters are minor or antagonists.
No more using “like a girl” or being a girl as an insult.
Stop making female characters be “bitches” just because. Unlikable characters are still supposed to be likable, meaning: love to hate, hate to love. Just look at Scarlett O’Hara, she’s a godawful awful person, but she’s a fantastic character.
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