[FredZarguna]

The problem with Katniss Whatsername isn't that she's female, it's that she's a two-dimensional character in a thoroughly boring, unoriginal, and unimaginative series; as I suspect the Dauntless heroine is.

Some of the "virtues" this author believes in are actually not virtues: "selflessness" isn't a virtue -- in some contexts it isn't even a positive, "intelligence" is an accident of birth, and "peace" isn't anything at all.

It's not surprising that morally confused times produce morally confused ideas. I think you'll find FReepers who understand the cardinal virtues are less fussed about her gender (at least she has one, thank God for small favors) than how stupid the books sound.

[Durus]

When I read these books I didn't find her character 2 dimensional at all. In fact I found the series surprisingly imaginative for all that it was another dystopian series. Added to that was the irony of the liberal author being pissed that conservatives identified with her protagonists and liberals were pissed as they instinctively identified with the elites.

[freedom462]

That is fair enough. BTW, do you have an opinion on the whole Buffy/Katniss/Ziva/Xena type of superheroine? Do you like them, dislike them, wish they would go away or are you personally not really invested either way?