dissection of Mary Sue and our issues with her

More thoughts on the Mary Sue discussion.

There would appear to be three basic characteristics of a Mary Sue:
- female character with many skills, gifts, abilities (ie. "awesome female character")
- self-insert character
- badly written (includes reality-warping, canon-character warping, gaining everything without effort, etc.)

There are probably others, but these are the ones I've seen brought up in the discussion so far.

Different meta will focus on different aspects dependent on the concerns of the individual.

( discomfort zones )