So raw, so lumpy.”) Using food to describe characters is a great writing no-no, and it sounds just as silly if used for a strawberry-blond, chocolate-eyed JOE. This is JANE.” The description could be straight from Heben Nigatu’s hilarious piece, “If White Characters Were Described like People of Color in Literature.” (My favorite: “She was transfixed by the gleam of his uncooked chicken breast skin. Here’s another “Jane” that Putnam tweeted: “The woman with strawberry blonde hair. Not “tipsy, dancing naked on her big bed, as adorable as she is sexy.” I start by asking what kinds of worlds inhabit their minds- and from there, who minds those worlds. But I don’t think of men in terms of their hotness level either. With droning predictability, she is “smokin’ hot” and frequently naked, all the better to reveal her “long-limbed” sexiness.Įven when I put on my novelist cap and write up a female character with all the visual details an ex-painter can muster, going straight to “boobalicious trollop” is not how my imagination works. Though you can dress her up in different outfits-paramedic Barbie! microbiologist Barbie! homemaker Barbie!-the clothes don’t alter the fact of her essential plastic Barbie-ness. The name, Jane, is the linguistic equivalent of a traditional Barbie. He changed their names to “Jane” in order to prevent the screenwriters from knowing which description he’s quoting, but it also makes the point that the female leads are pretty much interchangeable. Who is this lovely creature? Is she the heroine of Patty Park’s novel, Re: Jane? The author of “Pride and Prejudice” before Quirk Books added Zombies? Well, yes, but she’s also the star of a new twitter feed run by producer Ross Putnam who decided to bring some light into the world by posting the “ bad” introductory descriptions of female leads in scripts that he’s reading. No matter where she goes, her beauty attracts attention. Sometimes she’s cooking, other times she’s lounging. She is omnipresent yet faceless, this Jane.
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