California Concon
United States Chile
Dear Kevin Tsujihara,
Hello, I hope your doing fine, but enough
salutation, let’s get down to business I’m
writing this letter to tell you that the way you displayed the stereotypes of
women are very clever, showing the two sides of the coin, the rich pretty but
stupid women and the shy nerdy smart women, makes me feel a kind of equilibrium
between wether to complain or to praise the show, that's why I will tell you
both things.
First the bad things, don't you think that using the
stupid pretty girl is a bit overused? Like really, almost in every show that
you see you will find this stereotypes, and where's the strong and independent
women who can make decisions by her self? Now a days is an important thing to
show, feminists are slowly growing as a group and soon those kind of
stereotypes will not appear more in the media, you'll have to change that if
you want to make business in this years or if you don't want to be killed by
the feminists around the world. Maybe you should try to change your producers
or the creative stuff or tell them to go out of their cave and see what’s going
on.
Another thing that I noticed is the way you portrayed
women with the colours of their clothes, the purple dress the rich and
glamorous Daphne and orange to Velma, this colour is strictly related to the
ability of being empathic, of having a special connection with people. This is
a colour that almost every time is worn (in movies, shows, and others) by
people who are very timid or shocked by something, bullying most of the time,
for example in “Ed, Edd and Eddy” the one who always wears this colour is the
one who is known for being the geeky of the group, the one who was always
bullied, Edd. Chromatic references can also be applied to the character of
Shaggy, he always uses green, this colour is worn by people who are relaxed, or
dumb, maybe both. In “Ed, Edd and Eddy” this colour is used by Ed who is the
idiot of the group, the one who doesn’t worry about anything, and has also an
special ability to get lost in his own world, defying the laws of this world
where he lives in.
Apart from that
I really liked the show and enjoyed it, and I think that I got the message that
you were trying to give, this message really touched me, because it’s so real
and applicable in the world which we live in. Monsters don’t exist, because the
only monster that you’ll find is the human being. Other positive aspect that I
found is that the secondary characters seem to fit well in the story, and women
are very neutral and general characters, they never seem to change and have a
profile that isn’t affected with the stereotypes of the women.
If you want my
total approval and the general approval of the audience you’ll need to make an
strong independent girl, and trying to change the profiles of the characters,
making Daphne not so glamorous and make Velma less of a nerd could make it,
trying to make them a little bit more neutral about things.
