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30 Day Female Character Challenge Day 11
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Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show: I am going to date myself again here. I am from a generation of men who grew up being sexually dominated by the Baroness. G.I. Joe was a program where the Louisana bayou teemed with Australian outlaw bikers and just-out-of-Vietnam military equipment fired high powered lasers that never killed anyone. And none of us noticed. We were all too busy hoping today's episode would be that one where the Baroness and Scarlet kung-fu fight in their bikinis. When that wasn't on we had Cheetara clobbering apes, jackals, and reptiles (psychoanalytical archetypes of violent sexuality one and all,) with her phallic staff (note the elegant banana curve as she pole vaults with it.) Or there was Masters of the Universe and didn't those two coils of metal look so nice as they snaked their way around Teela's boobs? Yep, the 80's were a good time to be a boy. All the fanservice we could ever ask for and we didn't even know what it was.
My answer is none of those characters though in my prepubescent way I lusted for them all and I am not ashamed to admit it. The Baroness, Cheetara, and Teela were women you take home for the night. The woman you take home to meet your parents... Now that is Stormer from Jem and the Holograms.
I've spoken of my love for her before, I know. But it bears repeating. She was in with the show's "bad guys" but she was really good. She was sweet, compassionate, vulnerable, yet still rocked out in a bitchin' glam-punk rock band. She never got the screen time she deserved. Her role in every episode was normally to tell the other two Misfits that their latest crazy scheme wasn't such a good idea, get verbally smacked down for it, and then say nothing when she was proven right in the end. Maybe they were short-changing her, or maybe the writers knew she was too much woman for them to handle. I always hated seeing her abused by her teammates. But in the innocence of my childhood imagination I was always there for her, ready to make everything alright.
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show: I am going to date myself again here. I am from a generation of men who grew up being sexually dominated by the Baroness. G.I. Joe was a program where the Louisana bayou teemed with Australian outlaw bikers and just-out-of-Vietnam military equipment fired high powered lasers that never killed anyone. And none of us noticed. We were all too busy hoping today's episode would be that one where the Baroness and Scarlet kung-fu fight in their bikinis. When that wasn't on we had Cheetara clobbering apes, jackals, and reptiles (psychoanalytical archetypes of violent sexuality one and all,) with her phallic staff (note the elegant banana curve as she pole vaults with it.) Or there was Masters of the Universe and didn't those two coils of metal look so nice as they snaked their way around Teela's boobs? Yep, the 80's were a good time to be a boy. All the fanservice we could ever ask for and we didn't even know what it was.
My answer is none of those characters though in my prepubescent way I lusted for them all and I am not ashamed to admit it. The Baroness, Cheetara, and Teela were women you take home for the night. The woman you take home to meet your parents... Now that is Stormer from Jem and the Holograms.
I've spoken of my love for her before, I know. But it bears repeating. She was in with the show's "bad guys" but she was really good. She was sweet, compassionate, vulnerable, yet still rocked out in a bitchin' glam-punk rock band. She never got the screen time she deserved. Her role in every episode was normally to tell the other two Misfits that their latest crazy scheme wasn't such a good idea, get verbally smacked down for it, and then say nothing when she was proven right in the end. Maybe they were short-changing her, or maybe the writers knew she was too much woman for them to handle. I always hated seeing her abused by her teammates. But in the innocence of my childhood imagination I was always there for her, ready to make everything alright.
