I'm writing a paper on the female characters of Criminal Minds!

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I'm trying to get a survey going so that I can get a good idea on a direction for this paper, so can we have a discussion post on female characters? 

What I need for my paper:

• Your gender
• Your age (an age bracket is fine if you're not comfortable giving a solid number)
• Your views on Elle, JJ, Garcia, Prentiss, Seaver, and Haley Hotchner: Do you like/feel indifferent to/dislike/hate any of them? Why? 

Otherwise, let's just have a free-for-all discussion on female characters of the CM verse. :) 

(Also, my laptop monitor is dead, so I might be slow replying to people, but I really appreciate anyone who comments.)

Mods? I'm super hoping this is okay. I didn't see anything against it in the rules, and it's technically a discussion post?

Comments

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

Gender: female outside, genderqueer inside - you can put as female though, I don't mind
Age: 35
Views:

Elle: From what I remember, I liked her, though in real life I might have kept a small distance to feel safer - I'm not surprised she left.
JJ: Liked her, she was more than just nice.
Garcia: I really like her, like her 'innocence' and way with words as well as computers
Prentiss: The one I'd get to bed with if it came to that ;) Perhaps my favorite also in other ways... and someone I'd choose to be if I'd be a female CM character *LOL*
Seaver: Haven't yet seen her (CM is shown where I live about 1-2 seasons behind), though I'm not certain I'll warm to her. I don't hate her anyway.
Haley H: Poor dear should've married someone more ordinary, a 9-to-5, attention-giving stable-everything guy... though in the end she had also some good sides. I didn't hate her, more like lukewarmish-to-good sort.