Female Villains

Not all stories have baddies. The protagonists may be challenged by a mindless thing, such as an animal, a fire, a disease or a natural disaster. The greatest fiction does have villains, however. Even if the main threat is otherwise, there is evil to contend with.

The significance of villains is that they are people as the problem. They are deliberately a threat. To contend with them is a clash of wills. Even if sympathetic, the villain is the will to evil personified.

Men have always been the warriors. Women are seldom combatants. The heroes and villains of action-adventure contend with each other violently, thus, the heroes and villains are traditionally male characters.

The heroine and the villainous dominatrix are not new, but they have only recently become somewhat common. The female characters of action-adventure are traditionally the damsel in distress and the seductress. The usual exceptions were the hero’s mother or the villain’s eye-candy girlfriend.

Society is more comfortable with the idea of a female character being a hero than a villain. She may slay men and all is well, since her victims are baddies. If she is harmed, it is by baddies, thus, our ideals are not subverted.

Society is uncomfortable with the idea of female villains. The very idea acknowledges that women may personify the will to evil. The sex of our mothers is vilified… and that is scary to us, who were all children. We are more comfortable with the idea that the female villain is not actually a villain, but rather the victim of the actual villain, turned to evil by him.

What if a woman is actually murderous… and not because a man drove her to it? She is a villain because she wants to do evil things, for whatever reason. Not only is she willing to kill, she delights in doing so.

Not every villain, male or female, is reprobate. The character may have a truly sensible reason for his or her villainy, even if it involves killing people. Crafting such a figment of imagination takes more effort and skill to get right, however. It is much easier to make a villain evil for the sake of evil, to suit the story as the protagonist’s foil.

Limiting female villains to always being sympathetic marginalizes female characters in action-adventure entirely. Imaginary women must be allowed to thrive in the full spectrum of the genre. They must be allowed to be the best or worst people in their stories… or else being “female” shall mean “inferior” as a figment of imagination.

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Sex and Bodies

DEAD WOMEN are thematically distinct in fiction from the idea of dead men. The women are assumed were helpless victims whereas men are assumed slain in battle.

Traditionally, when the woman who dies is an important character, she is the true love of the protagonist. She succumbs to a disease or is murdered by the villain. Her death or pending death sets the story in motion either way.

When the man who dies is an important character, it is as the villain paying for his villainy or the hero sacrificing himself to save the day. His end ends the story either way.

When the woman who dies is unimportant, it is typically as the easy victim of a murderous stranger. She may be shown cringing and screaming, even if the violence itself is not actually shown. Her death is eroticized, probably by having her killed while naked or half naked.

When the man who dies is unimportant, it is typically as one of many slaughtered in a confrontation. If not, he is the victim of some threat or accident. His death is to be instead of main characters, villains or heroes.

A man as the true love of the protagonist is only manly if he dies protecting her. He is considered a weakling otherwise, even if the killer can kill most people quite easily.

A woman dying as the villain paying for her villainy is no different than when the antagonist is male, except that sensibilities make her demise tragic for no other reason than she is female. If she is the heroine sacrificing herself to save the day, she is deemed especially heroic.

A man as the easy victim of a murderous stranger is dismissed as a weakling, especially if he is shown cringing and screaming. People are more apt to be amused than horrified, even if the man is supposedly an innocent victim.

A woman as one of many slaughtered in a confrontation is rather unexpected, especially if she is one of the combatants. A nameless woman as the victim of a threat or accident is mourned as a matter of principle, even if she is a baddie.

Why is the idea of women being dead different than men being dead? How are these imaginary corpses any different as figments of imagination? SEX! We understand that men wage war and women are often the spoils of war. With such in mind, we expect the expected combatants to perish. We expect the expected spoils to be taken alive. We expect our fiction to ring true accordingly.

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Organized Bad Girls Imagined

As a writer and illustrator of fiction, I create armies of female baddies for them to be hopelessly outmatched by heroes. These sexy antagonists stand around guarding with their backs to corners or corridors. When they attack, they charge headlong in crowds. Their bodies are left sprawled about as the heroes continue on to confront the final boss.

Things are different when heroes are not the enemy. I mean “heroes” in the classical sense, as in superhuman warriors.

Fiction is not always about heroes. It can be about ordinary people too. Someone normal may be the main character. In such a case, the foot soldiers of villainy are threats to be feared. It may be better to hide from them than to fight them. If they must be fought, it shall be as equals, thus, the results of the violence shall most likely prove tragic, no matter who wins.

A story may be a war story, as a violent drama rather than as an action-adventure. Armies fight each other, whether conventionally or as a guerilla war. The combat may be at sea or in the air or in outer space. Unless commanding officers, the main characters are lost in a crowd of combatants. We experience the war from their perspective as they strive to not only win, but to survive.

I tend to write related stories. They are fiction in a shared universe. An army of female baddies may be soldiers to slaughter with pathetic ease in one story, but not in another. It depends on what characters are the focus. The very same female baddies may be scary in another tale, or not even the baddies if the story is told from their perspective.

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Christian Pornography

Homosexuality. Pedophilia. Necrophilia. Bestiality. Interesting that the natural impulse to reproduce has spawned preferences that do nothing for reproduction. They are common however. The desire to indulge in them is very strong.

Why would God curse people with overwhelming desires to do what is sinful?

When Jesus was baptized, he was filled with the Holy Spirit. He was overwhelmed with a strangeness that was everything unto itself. The rules did not apply because the Spirit was not of the rules or of the source of these rules. It was alien, not just in part, but absolutely, for it is the very absolute. The sexuality of Jesus became unlimited. He imagined homosexuality and pedophilia and necrophilia and bestiality… and they became possible accordingly… for Jesus was and is and shall always be the Word of God. He created reality, and decided its every possibility.

Yes, Jesus Christ is quite literally omnisexual. He is the first because sexuality, in its every version, began with him. He is the last because he alone has every preference.

The Tutor is one of the Twenty-four Elders, a personal friend of God. For love of the Father, he adores the Son and cares for the Spirit. This man, the Tutor, creates pornography… in the name of the Son for love of the Father and in accordance with the Spirit. He worships God by sublimating the interests Jesus gave him into art and fiction.

The Tutor was not cursed with overwhelming desires that are sinful. He was blessed with them… because they are not actually sinful. They are the ideas of Jesus Christ that inspire him… by arousing him. Like his Father in heaven, the Tutor is an artist, first and foremost.

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Seeds of Hope

Most people are evil. Everyone else is to blame, however. Well, not really… but I follow the logic. The wicked find solace in noticing the sins of others. It is as if a worse evil turns a lesser evil into something good. In truth, any sin is every sin. Relativity cannot justify.

A good man does not measure his righteousness. He is righteous or not. He judges himself, without comparisons to others. He does not decide beforehand what he shall see, but rather he sees what he sees whether he likes it or not. He does something about what he finds: channeling his energy into what is right about him at the expense of what is wrong about him.

It is good to judge others… but only after you have judged yourself. Your judgment is never to condemn, however. You seek and acknowledge what is good about yourself and what is good about others. You delight in finding the good in your enemies, hoping it shall be what turns them into friends.

The Lord of Spirits is the Holy Spirit, friendship itself. It is freedom and justice as they truly are. As friendship, it hopes for the best for everyone. As freedom it endows you to sow and as justice, to reap what you have sown.

Most people are evil. What does it matter? A good man is what he is regardless of everyone else. He shall do good for goodness sake, even if the last one to do so.

Good people are not alone. There are others out there. They are the few lost in the crowd of the many… as the few who stand out from the crowd. They are the examples to those who yearn to care, but simply need a good reason to do so. The inspired inspire others… and goodness increases accordingly.

Luck

We succeed or fail in life. Even if successful, we suffer failures along the way. Even if in failure, we enjoy successes along the way. Our lives do come to fruition, for better or worse. They end in triumph or tragedy. Most deaths, the end of most lives, are inconsequential, making no real difference whatsoever… and that is the greatest tragedy of all.

You fancy yourself the master of your own destiny? You are not your own source. You did not come from you. Your every ability is endowed. You can make the most of these abilities, but they are limited by your nature and the reality it is born of and bound to. You may die because of you, but you do not live because of you.

You succeed or fail by luck. It is not by sheer luck, however. You are lucky if you are born with talent and have opportunities. If you squander your talents and opportunities, however, you shall live as if suffering from bad luck. You are unlucky if born with meager talent and are denied opportunities. If you make the most of what little you have, however, you shall have much as if blessed with good luck.

People die being careless. People die being careful, too. The careless are lucky when they survive. The careful are unlucky when they perish.

Do good luck charms work? Well, they are part of every culture and every era, so I suppose so. There must be something to such things being universally believed in. That goes for cursed items as well, however.

Notions of “equality” or “equity” or “fairness” are the wishful thinking of people who expect the “equality” or “equity” or “fairness” to favor one person or group over another. In other words: Such ideas are fake even to those who believe in them. They are insincerity as sophistry and nothing more.

I bear witness that “luck” is real. It is the thing that confounds the wise and thwarts the mighty. It is never the decisive factor, however. It simply provides opportunities unexpectedly. It undermines the seemingly invincible, giving the disadvantaged a chance. It seems that God incorporated luck into his creation so that knowledge and power are not enough to assume control. How can they in a universe where anything is possible?

Luck is more often good than bad… but people are more often bad than good. The evils of the world are not because we are unlucky… but because people are evil. Our misfortunes are typically because of sin; the sins of others if not our own.

GOOD LUCK… and God bless you.

Weight of the World

Men are stronger than women and women are stronger than children. In a world of good people, this means men protect women and women protect children. In this world of sin it means men are contemptuous of women and women are contemptuous of children. These distinctions are because good people esteem love above all else whereas evil people esteem power above all else. This is why good people reject hate and evil people despise weakness.

The Confederate States of America were wrong because the Confederacy lost the war. The German Empire was wrong because it lost the Great War. Fascism is bad and Communism was good because Communism won the Great Patriotic War. Communism is wrong because it lost the Cold War.

Might does make right. The Golden Rule is indeed “he who has the gold, makes the rules.” The world is what it was and shall always be.

Unlike men, women and children, the angels, the “gods” of this world are immortal. God can kill these immortals, however, and at a whim. He shall kill a third of them. By the ways of this world, God is righteous.

God is not justified by the world, mind you. It acknowledges him, though against him, because he is its only source. Its ways and the ways of heaven, right or wrong, good or evil, are by his design. He is the power worshipped by his enemies.

You may have noticed that those who whine about being mistreated favor those who mistreat them. You may have seen that those who loathe weakness favor the weak. It all makes sense if you realize these attitudes are vanity: PRIDE. The mistreated bask in self-righteous indignation. The weak feel strong among those weaker.

Making the world right is unimportant. It is doomed, and was from the beginning… and good riddance. Doing what is right, for the right reasons, is what matters. Make the effort and you shall thrive whether the world thrives with you or not. Yes, you shall bear the weight of the world, and it may crush you, but that is whether you bother or not. Your fate shall not be bound to the fate of the world, unless you are of the world.