psychic powers, +2 against horizontal misogyny

[gryphonsegg]

Having just put down yet another urban fantasy in which the main character hates every other woman in the universe, but that's okay because they all turn out to be meeeeeean to her eventually, I think I've finally figured out a decent in-universe explanation for why Sso many UF heroines meet with so much hostility from the rest of the female cast. In UF worlds, most of the women are psychic! Sure, few to none of them have powers that can match those of the super-special awesome blossom heroine who is simultaneously One Of The Guys and the Sexiest Woman In The World (in each world, there can be only one!), but most of them are psychic enough to sense that she hates them just for not being dudes. Rude secretaries in these books aren't rude in general; they're just rude to Bonnie Torres because they know that she'll use her powers to ruin another woman's very expensive phone because it amuses her to make life difficult for any woman who dares to give the impression that she has important things to do despite not being a 22-year-old pseudo-goth named Bonnie. Every woman who's dating a guy with preternatural powers knows that Anita Blake really is out to steal her man. That "bitch" math professor with the "nasally voice" and the short-skirt-wearing blonde who is allegedly just pursuing her Mrs. degree know how the male students in the story talk about them behind their backs, and they also know that what's-her-name mocks them for the amusement of the dudes even though she doesn't even take the class and barely knows them. They're all psychic, and they all know they have perfectly valid reasons to resent (and in some cases fear) Ms. Snowflake.

Comments

[surrealistdreamer]

Now I have this idea for a UF story where a group of women and/or girls (or some combo there of) have pyschic powers and there's a Ms. Snowflake who hates all of them and has all these nasty sexist issues. While they're trying to go about their lives they figure out she's actually been possessed by a terrible evil spirit who feeds off the misery of women (including the misery of the host) so they all have to team up to defeat the evil spirit and free Ms. Snowflake who learns to deal with her sexism.

[gryphonsegg]

That is a really good idea! I would read the hell out of that story!

[surrealistdreamer]

It'd be crazy meta! And a frumpy teacher can mentor a group of girls of varying ages with psychic powers. Maybe there'd be a talking cat?

[gryphonsegg]

Yes! That would be perfect!

[hannah]

Relevant: I really just want to make a story about fantasy worlds that continue to advance at a technologically consistent rate so like, not urban fantasy which tends to have that “it’s now but there’s a ton of stuff U DON’T KNOW ABOUT” but like, Motorcycle gang dwarves and fashion model elves and wizards of high finance... [source]