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axelrod ([personal profile] axelrod) wrote in [personal profile] thefourthvine 2010-02-28 02:51 pm (UTC)

Are woobies necessarily male? Cuz I don't think I've seen a single woman mentioned? Which is very, very interesting. Possibly woobieness exists in the contrapuntal relationship of, otoh, an unambiguous masculinity and, otoh, pain and suffering which that kind of masculinity prevents a person from expressing openly. Women are stereotyped as weak (lol), and therefore their fictional representations can't bear the weight of woobiness.

But I'm open to exceptions. I just thought of one: Starbuck from BSG. But so many people on that show on contenders, I mean, the basic premise creates such fruitful ground for angstmuffins and woobies. Still, Starbuck is one of the central woobies. (btw, never got past the beginning of S03, have been spoiled for [some?] character death in S04, not really interested in further spoilers.)

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