I get the impression that a lot of the SG women are depowered, because the women writing them want to have sex with the men. And strong, intelligent women just get in the way. (yes, this is the very bitchy, cranky assessment). If it weren't true, there wouldn't be so much painfully bad Sam/Jack fic that includes her injured/raped/emotionally-messed up so Jack Has to fix her. And the amount of truly awful Elizabeth gets the same treatment and John's magickal penis fixes it all fic is probably proportionately equal. I can't say much about the other het pairings, sadly.
With the slash, I just get that it's a general "we're focusing on the guys" trend. Although there's also some of the "women are boring" feeling mixed in.
Is it a bit because they don't get a lot of screentime? Sure. But the characters themselves certainly aren't pushovers. None of them runs around, twists an ankle, screams and has to be rescued.
As a sidenote, iirc, it wasn't until just recently that Rose, on her own, had her own LJ community. She was just merely an extension of the 'ship. So I'm not sure that's saying much about the newskool 'shippers, really.
I also agree with one of the other commenters--if canon doesn't give us more chicks on screen, we should bloody well write it.
As a sidenote to my (it's very late, I'm rambly) original point, the femslashers could be just as bad with the depowering to get saved kind of fic (I suppose it's a variation of hurt/comfort, but it's kind of taken to an extreme). Er, but I've only dabbled a bit and only look for/write porn, generally.
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With the slash, I just get that it's a general "we're focusing on the guys" trend. Although there's also some of the "women are boring" feeling mixed in.
Is it a bit because they don't get a lot of screentime? Sure. But the characters themselves certainly aren't pushovers. None of them runs around, twists an ankle, screams and has to be rescued.
As a sidenote, iirc, it wasn't until just recently that Rose, on her own, had her own LJ community. She was just merely an extension of the 'ship. So I'm not sure that's saying much about the newskool 'shippers, really.
I also agree with one of the other commenters--if canon doesn't give us more chicks on screen, we should bloody well write it.
As a sidenote to my (it's very late, I'm rambly) original point, the femslashers could be just as bad with the depowering to get saved kind of fic (I suppose it's a variation of hurt/comfort, but it's kind of taken to an extreme). Er, but I've only dabbled a bit and only look for/write porn, generally.