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[redbrunja]

I never say no to this meme.

gacked from leobrat and earnmysong:

Please ask me questions about my OTPs in the comments! Any questions! All questions! Deep questions! Silly questions! Ship questions. (It doesn't even really have to be OTPs. Basically, anything you know I have ever shipped. And maybe even anything I haven't. And, let's be serious, I could talk about certain adorable dorks for freaking ever, so let me do that. Okay? Okay.)

Comments

[sharkflip.livejournal.com]

I just want you to ramble about Felicity and Oliver for as long as you feel like it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the way that Felicity/Oliver fits traditional gender norms really grates.

I could go on and on about why these two work as a couple, and while I am all for Felicity learning self-defense, she doesn’t make sense as an action girl, but the doubling up of Felicity as Mr. Queen’s EA and Green Arrow’s technical support is something I’m not happy with. It’s one of many reasons that I really think that Arrow desperately needs an action girl as a full-time member of the cast.

Despite Arrow having a lot of lady characters (and a nice handful of action girls) the girls who get the most screentime (Felicity, Laurel, Thea, and Moira) never get to go toe to toe with the big bads like Oliver and even Diggle get to.

While the occasional action girls (Sara, Helena) are shown as badass, they’re only on the show briefly and they all end up fucking Oliver.

So. I feel like Felicity (as the female character who’s in on Oliver’s secret and around the most) often ends up FEELING like the only female character on the show, even when she isn’t, and even looking at how the characters and the characters skills spread out, there are WAY too many guys on the front lines and not enough ladies.

Basically, the writers need to make Sara a fulltime member of Team Arrow (and I could have down without that stupid Oliver/Sara hook up at the end of the last episode) and the writers should have given Thea Roy’s current storyline.

This is probably not the comment you were expecting.