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As someone who loves karate and pretends that all these years training should make a good karate-ka, I would say I like strong female characters, but like you said realistic ones. (Nevermind I know a few girls in my dojo that have actually taken on six people, including guys, at once and a few minutes later knocked them all out of action to the floor.) I think the important thing is to know who your character is. Some ‘strong girl’ character that I dislike are those who think they are superior to guys, or somehow ends up beating up everyone despite next to no training. To me, that is just not…okay. People train hard, but even so, girls don’t usually go about knocking guys up because they’re oh-so-strong. There are physical differences to be taken into account. Or I guess the feminist idea lurking behind like ‘girls can do better than boys!’ sort of thing doesn’t really resonate with me well. (Of course, it doesn’t mean I’m against girls trying, but I do think there are purposes God created each gender for.)

To sum it up, I guess I like strong girls as long as they’re real people. Not some tough-and-looks-gorgeous-although-I-don’t-really-do-much characters.