Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-70.42.157.5-20141005164721/@comment-13965604-20141011152700

I don't think Lydia or Allison are very good examples of strong female characters. In season one Lydia was vapid, and Allison was oblivious. Season two Lydia was being manipulated by a man in her head and depressed because her boyfriend broke up with her, and Allison went off the deep end and abused school mates and friends. Season three Lydia is sleeping around because her boyfriend still left her after their love for eachother saving him, and Allison doesn't do anything all season until her semi-heroic death. (Total side note but my autocorrect just changed heroic to erotic next to that female pronoun but has never done it to a male pronoun)

There are good feminist concepts in the show. Like the Hunters being matriarchal, though we've only really seen that in the Calaveras however much the Argents claimed it. Gerard was running that family more than any grandmother (possibly because she is dead but it's never been directly mentioned) or even Victoria, before her death.

Also Talia, then Laura, being the Alpha of the Hale pack/family were good, but again they ended up dying.

I think erica could've been a good feminist character, once she settled down and got used to not being sick. And it's not exactly the writers fault she left, but the fact is, she too, died.

Braedan on the other hand, is a smart, independant woman doing a job that is normally given to men in film, and they don't over sexualize her in the role.