#the Smurfette Syndrome

[merrysithmas]

hearing merrin + cal (spoilers) got together makes me 3000% less excited about jedi survivor ngl

[clowntainment]

i wanna redesign starly cause she is one of the most "girl character is the male character but pink and with girly bow" characters ive ever seen

[primeministerofantarctica]

this might be a mix of personalities + (english) voices but 2021 smurfs feel like they have more prominent age differences? whereas 80s smurfs felt more or less the same. not major gaps just enough you can clearly sort them into older - middle - younger categories (like siblings). anyways i haven't thought of everyone but

older: hefty, farmer, smurfette, chef

middle: jokey, vanity, poet, handy

younger: greedy, painter, timid

[selkie-on-land]

Oh she definitely is ! Related to the beshdel test, there's the Smurfette Syndrome and she is one ! The token, the single one female character in a male only movies, her purpose is to serve the male onscreen and the male audience too. Scarlett also talked about it, about how she was so objectified and not just from the public and journalists but also how her character is written, filmed etc. She's a piece of meat. It's only in later movies that she get to be less objectified like in her own movie.

I tried to watch avengers assemble (the animated series). At first I wanted to watch it for Black Widow but I'm so disappointed and angry at it. She's an avenger, one of the first one actually, she built the team with Fury and Coulson but as always, it's a male only show : all the characters are exclusively male, and sometimes for a few seconds, when they need a damsel in distress, there is a woman screaming or she finally appears! Only to be there for at most 2 minutes in the whole episode (25 minutes) and only maybe 2 or 3 episodes. Even the new guy who is not an avenger yet but is becoming one get more screen time and line and everything actually than her an actual avenger.

This is infuriating! Not just about her character lack of screen time, she often doesn't talk either, just appearance time to time, she is so invisible and reduce as a poor damsel in distress.

I'm so so so sick of this !!! Of this male only society, the entire planet is already practicing separatism, everything is male only. And if you dare create one female character even if she has one second of time screen then all the trash are screaming and crying that they are erased and replaced by those *Misogynistic insult*. It is truly sickening to live in a world where you are not supposed to even exist but your people is the one creating the entire humanity.

I crave to have shows where there is not a single male in it !! But if you dare say so, you're a terrorist blablabla. The entire world is already like this and it doesn't bother anyone! But when it's about the invisible humanity, females, then it's an outrage to the world ??? Having female representation is categorised as hatred or hate speech. 💀

''How dare you allowing those things to be there in our things and to show that they actually exists!!?''

The entire society is applying DARVO on us, this is gaslight, this is manipulation. We are not the one who genocide half the humanity that birthed us just because they exist. Male are. Every media, every movie, every song they create is built on their hate towards us, every thing they do is created only to full their hate speech Agenda.

The only few shows dominantly with females characters are the Barbies ones, the animated movies.

In all the Disney etc movies, the ''princess'' or female lead doesn't have any female friends, her only possible friends are all male. (Except some rare exceptions)

In the 101 Dalmatians, the only female one is only there because they needed a mother role to birth all of them !! That's her only purpose 💀

In the aristocats, the strays one should be all females, the male one are very similar to the humans too, the female too, they tend to bond and to live together with their kittens and the male are excluded. The adult males don't bond they fight eachother, they kill eachother. So a made up family of Stray cats can only exists if they are all females.

Same in the Lion King, the male are excluded and not the leader or king of anything. The lionesses are the Queens.

Female friendship or sisterhood is inexistant unless it's for serving the sole purpose of misogynistic agents like peak me etc.

If you know movies or shows centered around women and girls please comments/share it !

I hope it's not the dystopian movie where there is no man left on earth ... Like we deserve to have representation, real one, not post apocalyptic one ...

So far I've got :

Barbie's animated movies

The Tinkerbell movies

She Ra (the reboot I didn't watch the original)

Marvel Rising saga

Supergirl (it's not exclusively female but the accent is put on them, minus for the TWAW speech)

Agatha All Along (even tho the only boy got more attention and get to have an entire episode focused exclusively on him while the other women including the main character have to share the few minutes of the episode 🙄)

Tell it to the bees

Portrait d'une jeune fille en feu

Ocean 8

The L world

[gothicprep]

looking back on everything that’s happened wrt james somerton, part of me has got to wonder what hbomb’s and his viewers’ *real* problem with him was. when you see stories like this, and maybe I’m just cynical having been on the internet for too long, most people who get cancelled like this are kind of weird in some way. or people just don’t like them.

idk if you’ve ever watched “the traitors” before, but often the people who get voted out early don’t make eye contact or are slightly a bit weird. and people make up all sorts of conspiracy theories about why they can’t trust them, and blah blah blah. but it’s actually just a kind of “ick” fundamentally. these stories can be that, or they can be a kind of professional jealousy, or they can be “who’s the most marginalized in the marginalized pile”, or they can be smurfette syndrome (“there’s only room for there to be one gay disney youtuber, and by god, it’s gonna be me”). and beyond all that, it’s fun to be part of a mob.

maybe this is just growing pains on my end realizing that I used to have that tendency and over-indexing in the other direction. I’m weirdly sympathetic to villains. but john ronson points this out in his book, that the internet never doles out the correct amount of punishment. all things considered, plagiarism is a misdemeanor. ripping off articles and YouTube videos is a sin, but it’s a venial sin. he may have harmed people, but he didn’t hurt people if that makes any sense.

there’s a very good piece by malcolm gladwell in the New Yorker archive from like 10 or 15 years ago about how he doesn’t personally believe plagiarism to be that big of a deal. it’s very interesting and basically the lynchpin of his argument is that there isn’t any copyright on ideas. it’s not about the ideas, it’s the execution. think of that scene in the social network when jesse eisenberg says to the fucked up looking winklewhatever twins, “if you were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook”

lot of this seems to be prefaced on the idea of people making money that they “don’t deserve”, which is a philosophical question beyond the scope of this post.

[sassy-radio-hazbin-queen]

So I saw a few people do there own Smurfs au and I thought to myself why can't I? So this is based on a dream I had but what if Smurfette wasn't created alone. And what if Vanity, Jokey, Clumsy and Brainy were also Smurfettes created by Gargamel.

I mean Smurfette represents Lust

Vanity is Vain

Jokey is a Pranskter

Clumsy is adorable innocent but destructive

And Well Brainy he is known for a lot of trouble.

All these qualities can make them Naughties as well. Now this au is a Blend of the Cartoon and live action movie. Not the lost village.

Without further ado here are the girls

Vanity Smurfette

Second Eldest right after Smurfette. Gargamel named her after she wouldn't stop staring at herself in his mirrors. As a Naughty her Vainess is 100%. To the point where she would call her own Sisters ugly. However deep down she had some insecurities. This all changed when she was forced to hang out with Farmer. At First the Naughty hated working in the fields. However Farmer always treated her like a lady. And she had to admit to herself that he was very attractive. Because of his Kindness towards her she decided she wanted to become a real Smurfette.

She has a crush on Farmer but isn't to sure he actually notices her. ( He does he just to shy to approach a beautiful woman)

Her phobia is 🐍.

Favorite color Purple 💜

Next

Jokey Smurfette

Like her actual male canon character this girl loves Jokes and playing pranks. Even on her own Father Gargamel. Third Sister in line she sometimes felt completely invisible so she would do pranks to get attention. She suffers from Middle child syndrome definitely. When she gets to Smurf village she is helping her sister Smurfette wreck things in the village. However she still tried to make them laugh. She would exceed at almost all of them except a certain grump. No matter how hard she tried he would not laugh. This frustrated her. However she decided to make it her life goal. To make Grouchy Smurf laugh. It wasn't until he cracked a tiny smile that she decided she wanted to be a true Smurfette.

She has a crush on Grouchy, however she feels he will never feel the same way. ( He does his ego won't let him show it)

Oh and to Vexy and Grouchy shippers 😔. At first I shipped them too but now I feel the romance was rushed way too fast so I'm Pairing her with Marina. ( Vexy x Marina)

Phobia= 🤡 ( ironic I know)

Favorite color= Yellow 💛

Next

Clumsy Smurfette

Probably the most innocent thing in the entire world. Even when she was a naughty. Gargamel called her a mistake because of her innocent nature. When she arrived at Smurf village she didn't really want to cause trouble however trouble just seemed to follow her. She would accidentally wreck everything in sight. Being second youngest also meant her sisters were a bit protective of her. Of course she was always hurt by Vanity mean words ( she apologized once they all became true Smurfettes) To her surprise Handy seemed to like having her around cause even after accidently broke something she was willing to fix it immediately. When The Smurfs found out the Smurfettes were all Naughties. Hefty and Handy took it the hardest. Seeing Handy cry make Clumsy want to be a real Smurfette

She has a crush on Handy but is too shy to pursue it. She held it back when He started Dating Marina but when Marina broke up with him and starting Dating Vexy she fell in love with him again ( Handy did like her but he just fell for Marina he fell for Clumsy later though)

Phobia= 🕷️

Favorite color= Green 💚

Now for my personal favorite

Brainy Smurfette

She is the youngest of the Smurfettes something her older sisters minus Clumsy who she is very close to do. Because of this from the beginning she tried to act older than she was. Like Clumsy she was often bullied by Vanity however unlike her she didn't take it lying down. Her sisters were pretty overprotective of her at First. Now when she was created she was blind at first. She got her name through her personality not her glasses. Because of her blindness and brash personality she was causing the most trouble. Papa smurf however could tell something wasn't right and after the Smurfette collided with Gutsy Smurf even though she was right in front of him he relaized want was wrong. He gave her glasses so she could see. After that Brainy came to respect the village leader and even was interested in the magic he did. Because of Papas kindness and totally not cause she didn't want to be left out or cause she had a teeny crush on the Smurf she fell on she decided she wanted to be a real Smurfette

She has a TEENY crush on Gutsy Smurf. If you ask or tell her she loves him be prepared for a hours long speech on how there not compatible ( she is obviously lying of course 😊)

Gutsy likes her too but like Brainy don't tell him unless you want to be smurfed out of the village)

Phobia= 🌑

Favorite color= Red ❤️

And that's there story everything else plays out the same In the cartoon and movie with a few exceptions of course.

I decided to make there Birthday Smurfette debut.

Nov 21 ( not sure what year the smurfs took place)

There zodiac is Scorpio ♏

Thanks so much for reading ☺️ I hope you like them.

Smurfs don't belong to me and neither do these actually there just an Au version of them.

[quietwingsinthesky]

everytime my friends came over i forced them to watch the smurfs movie. I was smurfette for Halloween and nobody knew who I was. I never knew someone also liked the smurfs.

-🔵 (Smurf anon)

i dont even know if i liked it i think i was just trapped in a room with it for like 6 years straight and developed stockholm syndrome and an unfortunate fondness for mid-2010s animated movies where the characters go to the real world

[squidhominid]

First, Dorothy Wayneright icon, fucking based

Secondly, literally which of any of those would be more interesting by being a guy

Male femme fatale: literally just an assassin?

Male virtual girlfriend: we call those 'simps'

harem: tbh the play here would be making the guy a girl, I don't see any way more guys helps here, if anything I think it makes it worse unless it's MLM

Damsel in distress: okay this one is cool because it subverts gender roles but idk it seems boring

regicidal concubine: so...just a guy who wants to commit domestic violence? except, like, domestic violence against the state, I guess?

I don't know what the fuck 'the girl' even means

Edit: I have been informed they mean the trope where the girl is the ONLY girl, like, Smurfette syndrome.

Guys I think that's just a gigolo or a male model. You're, you're either describing Zoolander or you're describing Deuce Bigalow. That exists. That's a thing that exists. That movie already exists. Twice, even.

Okay but being serious for a moment a bunch of women swooning over a guy just...seems boring? Like there's nothing interesting about that.

there basically isn't a single established action archetype that you can't improve tenfold by making it a girl

[alectology-archive]

*twirls hair* hiii bestie, are you watching the rings of power/will you watch it? 👀👀

I'm still reading the silmarillion because I haven't really had the time to read much since college started and the book is Dense, lol, but I did watch the first episode and I didn't... like it?

I mean. It doesn't feel like a show that had a billion dollars invested in it (except for the fact that the cgi is very good). It felt very empty and ordinary, I guess - that's the only way I can describe it.

the girl hobbits (technically harfoots, but you get the idea) were very fun though, lol <3

(Is there a reason why all the old guy elves have wrinkles while galadriel doesn't. Interesting that women aren't allowed to have wrinkles, I guess. Please do not come for me if I have my facts wrong from canon, I barely know anything.)

[pkatesss]

Why is the biker girl dressed like a 2014 tumblr fashion post?

[onionsoupsoup]

I'm actually completely fine with selfcest, my issue with Loki x Sylvie is that it's literally the safest and dullest route to take their relationship

Like, I can't believe we genuinely have to come back to men and women can be friends discourse

[ub-sessed]

My daughter can't remember the name of the Only Female Character in Haikyuu, so we've started just calling her OFC.

[caffeinated-tater-art]

In every 5 people team with 4 boys and one really capable independent strong girl, Endgame showed us what happens if said  women teamed up and form the ultimate overpowered independent strong women team we deserve.

[counterspelling]

GUESS WHO FINALLY GOT TO SEE CAPTAIN MARVEL

♪I’M JUST A GIRL♪

[fdhfjdafdajfa]

tumbler dumbuses: wow polytheism is so friendly for women =) not like those mean old abrahamics

reality:

[queenslayerbee]

I thought I'd make one of these to see if I find more like-minded writers ^-^

I want to read stories that put the focus on women. By personal inclination, it’s what I’m interested in, both in regards to reading and to writing. I seek new stories with a central female lead that gets to be writing as a lead, as the subject in the story –NOT as the object of desire or obsession of a male love interest that steals the limelight from her. I, in particular, want to find stories about women, plural. The Smurfette Syndrome is something I find more and more irksome each day that passes, so what I want to read most are stories about relationships between women. These can be of any kind: sismances, romantic relationships, psychosexual obsessions between enemies, messed-up family dynamics... you name it.

When it comes to genre choices, I diversify more when it comes to reading than to writing. But in the end, my one true love remains the fantasy genre. I’m particularly interested in high fantasy, in stories set in fictional worlds of your invention, but as long as the premise interests me, I am game for any subgenre you can name. I like sci-fi, mysteries, and horror, as well as other subgenres I’m a bit more particular about, like comedy or non-fiction (although I’d be surprised to find that in tumblr; if you have a non-fiction WIP, you’d probably get me hooked by the sheer novelty).

Although there’s nothing wrong with an everywoman getting thrown to the deep end in a supernatural plot, and I’ll gladly read those stories if they catch my eye, I like my special snowflake protagonists. All kinds of creatures, witches, political leaders, goddesses, (in)famous outlaws, etc. I like grandiose stories, and they usually come with the territory.

Give me your unlikeable women. There’s nothing I crave more than stories that allow their female characters to behave in truly awfuly, ugly ways.

I don’t necessarily mind romance, if it’s well-written and it doesn’t come with tropes I despise or find annoying on the long run (oblivious mutual pinning, relentless pursuers, super macho dom guys paired with meek shy submissive girls incapable of standing up for themselves...). But my preferences at this moment are a.) little to no focus on romance, or b.) tragic romance, especially between women.

I am looking for stories geared towards adult audiences. This doesn’t necessarily mean they have to be super sexually explicit or violent; people often confuse those two things (and for the record, I’m very comfortable with high rated content. Give me some warning if you truly think it’s necessary, but otherwise, if I need to put something down I’ll do it myself just fine). What I want is stories that, well. Treat me like an adult xD

I love descriptive, atmospheric, quasi purple prose, but it’s not a requirement. I’m just putting it here because if this is what you veer towards, and feel self-conscious about it, I’m your gal.