Thread:Smurf Manian/@comment-1323688-20171017113607/@comment-5449478-20171019175120

Enriquearreguin777 wrote: This category sounds redundant now. You just described the protagonists of our respective series, who don't have simply one personality.

On the other hand, perhaps a women empowerment section sounds more appropriate since we do have very few of those here in the wiki.

Quite frankly, the original category idea did sound unnecessary as each page already has so many categories. (As if it were really hard to locate a page/story.) I don't see how the category is redundant unless you're basing the definition of "empowerment" on raw numbers, in which case, I suppose we may as well have a bunch of exclusive categories for women, given that the majority of series protagonists are male (possibly something to do with the fact that most of the major contributors here are male).

Inspirational/empowering stories should not be limited to a single gender that has been determined "marginalised" over the years because this creates an unnecessary cult of victimhood and also attempts to suppress anything that does not conform to this identity.

I have no problem with someone writing a story based on a woman who takes on a leadership role; in my opinion that is the business of the writers themselves. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, every author has control over their own universe and is free to discuss pretty much any topic they wish within that particular world unless it seriously oversteps the boundaries of acceptable content, which, with this particular debate, I suspect is creeping forwards.

Men breaking out of a particular profession could also definitely be considered inspiring when said male was regarded as having a very low rank; there are a lot of smurfs who merely occupy placeholder roles which don't have much substance behind them (Lazy, Clumsy etc). This is why I emphasise gender symmetry on issues like these.

Having a large number of categories is not a problem. The categories serve to differentiate pages and group pages with a common theme under one umbrella. It's for organisation purposes.

Critically, my view is that the category should stay as is.