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Do we need the Ditzy character?

So I came up with this idea in the shower... and I think I have 3 different posts that I want to talk about this subject with... so I'm going to do that... I'm starting with this one because this is something I kind of think is a problem. As a kid, I always laughed at the "dumb" characters in things... and as an adult- I'll admit I still do... but I think it kind of has negative impacts. Girls may act less intelligent because "it's funny." And I'll get more into girls acting "dumb" and calling other girls "dumb" in the next blog... but for now... do we need the dumb characters? No... we really don't... and here are some pop culture examples where there is no dumb characters... so let's get into it.

Crazy Ex Girlfriend is one great example. There are a lot of female characters... in fact it's mostly female characters... and they all might make mistakes or do things that seem dumb or clueless... but everyone is intelligent. Rebecca went to Harvard and Yale... Valencia is vain and I don't think brains really matter to her... but she isn't unintelligent. Paula is going to law school and writes brilliant legal documents. Heather is in college for psychology. Karen is kind of goofy... but she's still a paralegal and knows everything about sex toys... so that's something. No one is really portrayed as unintelligent and that leads to as many funny moments as any other show. The fact that we know Rebecca is smarter than most other people on the show actually makes it funnier when she does something that you wouldn't exactly think a successful lawyer that went to Harvard would do. Like when she pees on Josh's stuff for example. 

Plus it leads to her sort of over-explaining things like when she's actually interviewing a polyamorous couple about how their relationship works. When she questions the grammar of Spiders'... a lot of the best jokes are because Rebecca is smart. 

In a much more popular and much more serious series: Harry Potter. 

A lot of Harry Potter's female characters are from Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw's traits are that they are "Intelligent, Wise, Sharp, Witty, Individual." All of the houses are smart... but Ravenclaw is more known for it... to the point where there's an actual scene in the series questioning why Hermione is in Gryffindor instead of Ravenclaw... so that shows something right? 

Characters like Luna Lovegood, Professor Trelawny and even Queenie from Fantastic Beasts seem like they might be the sort of "crazy, ditzy" characters... and they are... but they aren't unintelligent. They're all highly intelligent... they just have different motivations than other people and they're more unpredictable and people have a harder time believing them... and this I think I'll get to next week... I'll link a helpful video from the Super Carlin Brothers underneath because they explain a lot of what I'm trying to say about these characters... but I'll have more on that next week... this is going to be a kind of long series... I said there were 3 blogs I have planned for this... but now I'm also thinking of rewatching Finding Dory... and of corse, rereading the 7 Harry Potter books and watching the 8 movies... and Fantastic Beasts... and probably even Cursed Child.

We'll definitely revisit this topic a lot... but the point is... do you know anything with a ditzy character that's better than Harry Potter? Probably not because Harry Potter is awesome... and if you don't like Harry Potter... I respect your lifestyle choice... but I don't understand it. 

Byeee! 
-Shannon 
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