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I ll do my very best to stay extremely concise in expressing myself regarding this topic: I personally think that the idea of motherhood as a whole is a deeply unresolved topic all throughout media history.
Vast majority of cartoons or tv show do not dive into it, they simply dont. They either use it as a plot device, skim through it, or use it as a contingency element to stir up more drama. Or, even worse, they exploit it to consequently dumb down the female characters that give birth to reduce them to side pieces.
We rarely have the occasion to explore pregnancy, birth, or the first impact that a just born has on the parents. I know that some indie comic books are changing this, and taking this entire concept much more into consideration (in which way I cant say, I didnt read through them so I cant make myself an opinion about something I haven't verified first hand).
Trying very hard to not say much about myself in all of this rambling, but I stand to this point: there is nothing more feminist than defending and empowering also women that choose to become mothers. There is nothing more feminist than supporting them, giving them a character arc that explores motherhood as a destabilizing event, in the good and bad, allowing them to grow emotionally and creating a new setting that allows also the viewer or the reader to understand much better what does it mean to become a parent. As a female writer, you can educate also your male followers to understand the female experience and give them elements to become better fathers, allowing them the potential to see what does it mean to stand by your partner and properly loving and raising a child.
I am a fan of Bojack Horsemen and I appreciate it as a piece of media, but Vivienne has to understand that the level of bitterness and self destruction that the show was conveying is not something to usually strive for. BH was showing you the far end of the deepest pit of self pitiness, narcissism, self loathing that a human being can develop for his own self also as a copying mechanism of some sort, people like Bojack do exist and they are first and foremost addicts to their own miserable experience. This is not what her Millie is. I ll stop here.
Edited because of spelling mistakes,sorry
Vast majority of cartoons or tv show do not dive into it, they simply dont. They either use it as a plot device, skim through it, or use it as a contingency element to stir up more drama. Or, even worse, they exploit it to consequently dumb down the female characters that give birth to reduce them to side pieces.
We rarely have the occasion to explore pregnancy, birth, or the first impact that a just born has on the parents. I know that some indie comic books are changing this, and taking this entire concept much more into consideration (in which way I cant say, I didnt read through them so I cant make myself an opinion about something I haven't verified first hand).
Trying very hard to not say much about myself in all of this rambling, but I stand to this point: there is nothing more feminist than defending and empowering also women that choose to become mothers. There is nothing more feminist than supporting them, giving them a character arc that explores motherhood as a destabilizing event, in the good and bad, allowing them to grow emotionally and creating a new setting that allows also the viewer or the reader to understand much better what does it mean to become a parent. As a female writer, you can educate also your male followers to understand the female experience and give them elements to become better fathers, allowing them the potential to see what does it mean to stand by your partner and properly loving and raising a child.
I am a fan of Bojack Horsemen and I appreciate it as a piece of media, but Vivienne has to understand that the level of bitterness and self destruction that the show was conveying is not something to usually strive for. BH was showing you the far end of the deepest pit of self pitiness, narcissism, self loathing that a human being can develop for his own self also as a copying mechanism of some sort, people like Bojack do exist and they are first and foremost addicts to their own miserable experience. This is not what her Millie is. I ll stop here.
Edited because of spelling mistakes,sorry
