I need to make my next book one you'll actually like so you can be on the reading filter for it! :) All I've been posting lately is the locked poly-romance installments. Should be finished with it by year-end at least, though.
It's impossible to get the balance to be something everyone will be happy with, of course, and it's hard even to make it reasonably nuanced. I suspect Butcher's work suffers additionally in this respect because of his subscription to the "you can never be TOO HARD on your protagonist!" method of writing. It's not like any of the other male characters are competent or fully-realized, either. Still, Dresden doesn't have to rescue any men and he rescues three women, so I don't think it's ALL in my imagination. :| Micah noted that "opposite", with the women being competent and the men useless, is common in urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
I think the anime trope of the "one average boy that all the girls are stalking" is one of my least favorites. Ugh.
I really do prefer that both male and female characters be, y'know, interesting and well-developed and not necessarily the one needing to be rescued by the other all the time. :/ One of my own personal tropes seems to be "characters alternating rescuing each other" instead. I don't INTEND to do it, it just works out that way somehow.
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Date: 2013-10-18 12:56 am (UTC)It's impossible to get the balance to be something everyone will be happy with, of course, and it's hard even to make it reasonably nuanced. I suspect Butcher's work suffers additionally in this respect because of his subscription to the "you can never be TOO HARD on your protagonist!" method of writing. It's not like any of the other male characters are competent or fully-realized, either. Still, Dresden doesn't have to rescue any men and he rescues three women, so I don't think it's ALL in my imagination. :| Micah noted that "opposite", with the women being competent and the men useless, is common in urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
I think the anime trope of the "one average boy that all the girls are stalking" is one of my least favorites. Ugh.
I really do prefer that both male and female characters be, y'know, interesting and well-developed and not necessarily the one needing to be rescued by the other all the time. :/ One of my own personal tropes seems to be "characters alternating rescuing each other" instead. I don't INTEND to do it, it just works out that way somehow.