/lit/ - Literature

I'm cool with pro-female themes so long as they're written in a way that I can believe it in-universe rather than feeling like the author is just grabbing my suspension of disbelief and bending it hard to the left.

Like:

>Scenario A: girl is told she can't fight, so she trains hard in secret and becomes an amazing swordsman who can beat men. She goes to the army and demands they let her join and they say fuck off, so she beats up their best fighter in single combat and everyone is impressed and the king lets her join as his personal special forces commander, and she recruits a bunch of girls and trains them to be awesome and stuff. After the war the king repeals the laws against women and the protagonist marries the guy she beat up because he's totally in love with her now, then later comes back to lead an army to save the kingdom years later and helps the princess become the new queen through Grrl Power.


>Scenario B: girl is told she can't fight, so she trains hard in secret, disguises herself as a man, reads up on strategy, and despite being weaker physically learns up on methods to kill people that don't require as much brute force as they do a calm, clear mind. She joins the army, shows leadership potential and becomes a commander. Once she's completely and totally proved her worth to the king and saved his life or whatever, then it can come out that she's a woman and the king is reasonable enough to realize the law would be fucking with their combat potential and repeals it, but the protagonist still gets shit for it and ends up leaving the army, but still inspires women in her country to do things other than washing the laundry and foraging for mushrooms. Then years later when disaster looms she gets contacted by the king's daughter who wants her to help her lead the army with her being inspired, and the protagonist teaches her how to command effectively while dispelling any silly notions of Grrl Power that might be clouding her judgement.

It's okay for the girl in either scenario to have feminist notions and girly emotions and relationship drama, IMO, because so long as I can see the hard work aspect has been put in to close the gap I can believe it.

I'm quite sure others have less tolerance than I do, but we're all different and that's okay.