I hesitate to describe Servalan as a personal role model, but well....
I agree that roles are getting narrower. "Strong female characters" now seems to mean violent, needy, emotional inadequates in desperate need of a male person, preferably supernatural, to sort out their problems (I did like it that the main man/bird in Maleficent's day-to day life was her loyal minion). I like C J Cherryh's women, but she has been writing for a long time. I cannot think of anyone really who is her current equivalent.
Barbara Hambly's women are very good. Lydia Asher is the only heroine I have ever come across who asked the rational questions when she discovered that vampires existed ("could I have some blood and tissue samples?")
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I agree that roles are getting narrower. "Strong female characters" now seems to mean violent, needy, emotional inadequates in desperate need of a male person, preferably supernatural, to sort out their problems (I did like it that the main man/bird in Maleficent's day-to day life was her loyal minion). I like C J Cherryh's women, but she has been writing for a long time. I cannot think of anyone really who is her current equivalent.
Barbara Hambly's women are very good. Lydia Asher is the only heroine I have ever come across who asked the rational questions when she discovered that vampires existed ("could I have some blood and tissue samples?")