#dualla

[Battlestar Galactica] has a huge misogyny problem that's all too often overlooked: - Tyrol beats his lover (Cally) black and blue and murders his next lover (Tory), yet is still treated as a troubled hero by the narrative and both female characters in question are treated as disposable and defined primarily by their relationships with Tyrol. - Ellen is killed by Tigh and abused by Cavil. In season 4 the show shoehorns her into a "mother" role (No Exit) in addition to her "bitch" role (seasons 1-3, Deadlock) - Pegasus Six is beated and sexually abused by male crew - Caprica Six is coerced into sex by someone in a position of power over her (Tigh) who again is treated by the show's narrative as a troubled hero until the end - Six, in all her incarnations, is first and firemost a sex object throughout the show. Head-Six is an erotic femme-fatale whose character not just only exists in relation to Baltar but can't even be perceived by anyone else. Her primary purpose right from the start was very clearly to attract and titillate male viewers, disguised as a narrative device but one that had no resolution and little function - Boomer is abused, victim-blamed, and murdered. Two other female characters later have relationships with her murderer despite knowing this. How many women do you think would act like that in real life? In season 4 Boomer is abused by Cavil and recast as a man-hating, baby-stealing soap-opera bitch. Give me a break. - Roslin dies, Starbuck dies/vanishes, Dee kills herself, even Kat, Racetrack and Elosha are all killed. Yet the overwhelming majority of the male characters survive the entire series. The only major female character who survives the show is the one reduced to a role of wife and mother (Athena) and all of whose motivations relate to her husband and child. - Starbuck, the strongest female character by a mile and superbly acted by Katee Sackhoff, has to be made emotionally unstable and an abuse victim, because apparently a strong female character who's emotionally fine is unthinkable and to be a strong female character you have to have experienced trauma. Ditto Roslin, another strong female, whose character is retroactively defined by the death of her family as shown in the finale. Because again, a strong female leader whose life isn't defined by tragedy (cancer/loss) apparently wouldn't have been possible. - The only significant interaction between female characters is reduced to soap-opera bitchfights (Ellen-Caprica in Deadlock, Cally-Boomer in season 2, Boomer-Athena in the finale)

I mostly didn’t particularly care for BSG, but every time I see Her