Post by duckhuefan on Nov 5, 2020 22:58:46 GMT
Nov 5, 2020 19:53:27 GMT bats said:
You mixed my post into that quote, I don't know if it was by accident or if you DID mean to reply to it, but in case you did... I don't think you really read what I wrote.I don't take back much of what I said in apparent reply to your post, even so. The thing is that I fundamentally have no idea what you two mean when talking about it “being like this” in a way Tangled: The Series isn't. It's not just that I am often unsympathetic to "X show is misandrist”-type takes; it absolutely did not occur to me that anyone could possibly read DuckTales 2017 in this light. In fact, and again, even though I'm not sure I would see it as a bad thing if there were, I don't think there was any kind of conscious decision to portray the female characters as more competent than the male ones.
(A good test-case might be Donald vs. Della, where, on average, Donald is clearly considered the more stable, mature and functional of the two.)
I think where you people perceive this, it's more that the show are biased towards what Angones warned from day one were “his OCs” — Lena, Violet, and I think we can throw Completely-Redesigned-From-The-Ground-Up!Webby into this category as well. HDL don't parse to meas being written as particularly "dumb", and, on the occasion that they are, not in a particularly "boyish" way with the potential exception of Dewey. HDL are, in fact, written exactly how I'd expect kid protagonists in a show like this to be written. It's Webby, Lena and Violet who are inordinately competent, not the reverse. And again, if that bothers one, that is more easily chalked up to Mary Sue tendencies than to some agenda to portray Da Girlz as smarter than Da Boyz.