{"id":113106,"date":"2016-02-20T18:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/i-genuinely-wish-that-everyone-would-delete-the\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:54:27","slug":"i-genuinely-wish-that-everyone-would-delete-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/i-genuinely-wish-that-everyone-would-delete-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I genuinely wish that everyone would delete the word \u201cMary Sue\u201d from their vocabulary. In its original, fanfic usage, it described a character who was, yes, usually female, but whose greatest crime was not perfection: it was twisting the story. A Mary Sue in that sense literally walks into someone else\u2019s world and makes everything about her. Flash forward to the modern day and it\u2019s a rare female protagonist who doesn\u2019t get accused of being a Mary Sue, and hence worthless. Here\u2019s the thing: she can\u2019t distort the story if the story already belongs to her. The protagonist, regardless of gender, is awesome and interesting and has a milkshake that brings all the boys, girls, or genderfluid space pirates to the yard, because that\u2019s why they\u2019re the star of the story. So calling female protagonists \u201cMary Sue\u201d is sexist, belittling, and reduces them in a way that is very rarely applied to their male counterparts\u2014even when those male counterparts are just as guilty of being a little too perfect to be real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Seanan McGuire in <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/infodump-mary-sue-and-other-words-that-authors-are-1663345948\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cInfodump,\u201d \u201cMary Sue\u201d And Other Words That Authors Are Sick Of Hearing<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/nudityandnerdery.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">nudityandnerdery<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I genuinely wish that everyone would delete the word \u201cMary Sue\u201d from their vocabulary. In its original, fanfic usage, it described a character who was, yes, usually female, but whose greatest crime was not perfection: it was twisting the story. A Mary Sue in that sense literally walks into someone else\u2019s world and makes everything &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/20\/i-genuinely-wish-that-everyone-would-delete-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6827,12753,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}