Awesome New Female Character Week: Ramona Flowers

[sandoz_iscariot]

My pick for Awesome New Female Character Week is Ramona Flowers, the mysterious Amazon.ca delivery girl from Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series. Ramona travels through the subspace dimension to deliver packages and is never seen without her subspace suitcase (storage capacity: unknown). Both are put to good use when Ramona's Fourth Evil Ex, Roxie Richter, shows up and wants to cut Ramona's boyfriend's head off. A fight ensues! On rollerskates.

7 pages from the fourth volume, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together.

Comments

Re: Mod Note

[thehefner]

I read the comment less on her sexual history with her exes and more how she treated them as partners. Or is that the same thing? Because I've known men who have tons of exes who want to put the blame on the girls all the time, when the only common factor is the men themselves. So I read that experience into the above comment.

Re: Mod Note

[kagome654]

That's how I interpreted it too, though in retrospect I can also see how it can be read as slut shaming, and I do apologize for contributing to that line of thought.

Re: Mod Note

[neuhallidae]

That's what I thought as well. What she did to the twins and Roxie wasn't slutty, but extremely assholish and manipulative. It wouldn't have been any more acceptable had the sexes been switched.

Re: Mod Note

[kingrockwell]

Well, that particular part is really more victim-blaming, though there are things in the comment that border on slut-shaming. But the especially skeevy thing is the implication that because she dated seven people who turned out to be evil, that she "deserves what's coming to her" or that it's all her fault.

I mean, it's worth mentioning that "What kind of person has seven evil exes?" and "She is, after all, the only common denominator in those relationships." are the kind of arguments the main villain used to justify his vendetta. It completely removes the responsibility of his actions and puts them on her, the person those actions are being done against. That's victim-blaming and it's completely unacceptable here (or anywhere, for that matter).