[Discussion] Female Friendships

[anenko.livejournal.com]

halfamoon has seen stories and vids about many interesting women from various fandoms over the past few days. I'm thrilled to see that so many people are willing to celebrate female characters in fandom!

I'd be interested in hearing about some of your favourite female friendships (or sisters, or partners; even rivals will do!). Give me examples of series where two (or more) women regularly interact, and share more in common than a man.

I'll start:



I absolutely love Kyoko and Moko from the manga Skip Beat! Their friendship and earlier rivalry is in no way related to the men in their lives. Kyoko and Moko's understanding and appreciation of one another comes about through their acting, and their enforced partnership in the "Love Me" section of their agency. Neither of them have much experience with friendship, and Moko and Kyoko clash, misunderstand one another, and have to constantly work at being friends. But there's no doubt that they really *are* friends. See the story arc beginning in chapter 24 for a good example of why these two are great together.

Tohru, Uo, and Hana from Fruits Basket are another example of strong female friendship. They were friends long before the series began, and all three girls understand and care for one another deeply. They saved one another from difficult times in the past, and are always looking out for one another.

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[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

All the women on Earth 2.

Does anyone even remember that show? The idea was a group of human colonists were trying to settle on an alien planet. A woman ran the group, and there was a clear gender divide - the men wanted to basically be aggressive and fight for territory and kill the natives because they were scary; the women wanted to negotiate and work it out. And the women turned out to be right every single time and the men were shown to be hasty and overly aggressive.

Everyone bonded with everyone - there were heterosexual love interests, but the woman leader of group also had an interesting not-quite-friendship, semi-alliance with doctor, a woman named Julia (played by the actress who was Elizabeth Weir in the SGA pilot, I believe).

It was so awesome.

[cofax7]

Oh, I remember Earth 2. But not much detail, I'm afraid.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Totally worth a Netflix. It was incredible. It kept having these setups where you think it's going to be another working class realistic guy puts rich spoiled woman in her place storyline... and then that doesn't happen. *happy sigh*. Maybe I'll rewatch when I'm done with my Xena marathon.