Oh no, Sue. I think you should call the doctor. But I probably wouldn't.

Has anyone read this article at Tiger Beat? [link]

I am so confused, because this paragraph is compareing and contracting Buffy and Tara? But it doesn't seem to be the Tara who is on Buffy. And she doesn't reference a Tara earlier? Is it just a typo for Kara Thrace (Starbuck?)

Look at Buffy and Tara. The two characters have a lot in common; they’re physically strong, they’re assertive, they’re sassy. They are also both emotionally vulnerable, are sometimes wounded, may scream and cry and pout and stomp. Buffy enjoys a huge following (with a small minority that calls her ‘whiny’) while people pour on the haterade for Tara on a regular basis. She’s too emotional, too screamy, too…much. Buffy’s a strong female character by many people’s lists, but Tara…isn’t. There’s a reason for that

Yeah, that seems weird, Sophia. Tara was never assertive, nor especially physically strong, and not prone to pouting or stomping.

And I thought Starbuck was a very popular character.

Do they mean Tara from "True Blood", maybe? I've not read the article yet, I'm just guessing.

That author thinks Marvel publishes Batgirl, so who knows? But it's probably True Blood.

What am I missing here?

These calls for strong female characters start to run into trouble with trans women, nonwhite women, and women of colour in pop culture. Because women in all three of these categories are automatically expected to be strong.

When did nonwhite and "of colour" start meaning usefully different things? And trans women are expected to be strong?

I think they mean Tara in "True Blood", because the back half of the article is comparing how white women are portrayed as "strong" to how nonwhite or POC women are portrayed and one of the links is to an article about Tara (the oversexed link).

I fell back to sleep after posting. i haven't called the dr. Getting there seems impossible. I guess i'll wait until tomorrow. i am totally whiny bc I am supposed to be on vacation. I wonder if I could change this to a sick day.

I think they mean Tara from TB too.

That's just crappy writing. Her *thesis statement*, such as it is, introduces three characters, and then she goes on to compare one of them to someone else. Who she never introduces properly. I don't know much about True Blood, so I never would have made the jump without you guys.

Tsk.

By hovering over the links in the prior paragraph I'm guessing she was introduced in one of them, but that's expecting a lot.

I totally did not have the patience to click all of the links. And I have never watched True Blood, so I have no idea who that it. And there is a person by that name in the show Buffy was on, so that is just super-confusing.

Totally.

And I virtually never click links while I'm reading an article. At best I'll open them in other tabs to come back to. So while I hate to pile on a site I really like, a piece that depends on people going away to read the embedded links and coming back to finish the paragraph hits a lot of my hot buttons.