Random HP fan-culture question...
Sep. 18th, 2005 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_t_rainWhy don't we see more Fleur Delacour bashing?
I mean, it's not that I want to see it, particularly, because Fleur amuses me, and as far as I'm concerned, the less fan-hatred directed toward female characters, the better. It's just that Fleur is pretty much the living embodiment of every negative female stereotype that you can imagine, and she actually, unquestionably exhibits most of the behaviors that the other females in the series are accused of exhibiting. I mean, here is a character who genuinely DOES believe the world revolves around her, blithely ignores the fact that there's a war going on, is rude to her hosts, and has no compunctions about picking a fight with her prospective mother-in-law over her fiance's unconscious body, seconds after being informed of Dumbledore's death. Her main redemptive act is that she doesn't abandon Bill after he's been mauled by a werewolf, but isn't that, you know, pretty much expected if you're engaged to somebody?
And yet. She gets away with it. If anything, most of the fans seem to believe Molly and Ginny are being unreasonably bitchy to her.
So is it just that she's so over-the-top that nobody takes her seriously, or is it the veela charm at work? Or do the fans just not care about her because they don't care about Bill, and she's not a threat to any other ships?
I mean, it's not that I want to see it, particularly, because Fleur amuses me, and as far as I'm concerned, the less fan-hatred directed toward female characters, the better. It's just that Fleur is pretty much the living embodiment of every negative female stereotype that you can imagine, and she actually, unquestionably exhibits most of the behaviors that the other females in the series are accused of exhibiting. I mean, here is a character who genuinely DOES believe the world revolves around her, blithely ignores the fact that there's a war going on, is rude to her hosts, and has no compunctions about picking a fight with her prospective mother-in-law over her fiance's unconscious body, seconds after being informed of Dumbledore's death. Her main redemptive act is that she doesn't abandon Bill after he's been mauled by a werewolf, but isn't that, you know, pretty much expected if you're engaged to somebody?
And yet. She gets away with it. If anything, most of the fans seem to believe Molly and Ginny are being unreasonably bitchy to her.
So is it just that she's so over-the-top that nobody takes her seriously, or is it the veela charm at work? Or do the fans just not care about her because they don't care about Bill, and she's not a threat to any other ships?
