That's a really good point about gen fic feminizing him too. I don't know why it's so hard to write him behaving as a man but, ugh! Well, intellectually I know why it's done, of course, it's because thirteen-year-old fangirls want to hurt him and make him suffer and it's all for the angst. (Which I have nothing against when it's done correctly!) And the way a lot of people/writers/fangirls write angst is by making him totally OOC and having an emotional flip-out. In other words, it's how a lot of teenaged girls behave. Also, a lot of fanfic writers are typically women - perhaps young, inexperienced women - who don't know how to how to write men.
Ezra's totally a lovable cad. I have no problem with writers inventing a tragic, abused past, but it can be done without making him a simpering wimp who cries at the drop of a hat. And without losing that irreverence and that edge that makes him a dangerous lovable cad.
Clearly, I could go on and on too, but it's nice to see this feminizing tendency irritates someone besides me!
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That's a really good point about gen fic feminizing him too. I don't know why it's so hard to write him behaving as a man but, ugh! Well, intellectually I know why it's done, of course, it's because thirteen-year-old fangirls want to hurt him and make him suffer and it's all for the angst. (Which I have nothing against when it's done correctly!) And the way a lot of people/writers/fangirls write angst is by making him totally OOC and having an emotional flip-out. In other words, it's how a lot of teenaged girls behave. Also, a lot of fanfic writers are typically women - perhaps young, inexperienced women - who don't know how to how to write men.
Ezra's totally a lovable cad. I have no problem with writers inventing a tragic, abused past, but it can be done without making him a simpering wimp who cries at the drop of a hat. And without losing that irreverence and that edge that makes him a dangerous lovable cad.
Clearly, I could go on and on too, but it's nice to see this feminizing tendency irritates someone besides me!