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Why Are There so Few Sympathetic Female Monsters?
This began its life as a piece on the obsession our culture has with sexy movie monsters, but as with many ideas, it began to change as soon as words hit paper. It’s one thing to read about how women...
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Let Timothy Zahn Bring Mara Jade Back to Star Wars Canon
The old Star Wars Legends canon had a myriad of fantastic (see: the Thrawn trilogy) and not-so-fantastic (see: Han Solo fighting an otter) things, but one element fans have longed to see re-introduced...
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Why Do Female Characters Rarely Get Redemption Arcs?
As a follow up to my quest to figure out where the sympathetic female monsters are, it’s time to talk about women and redemption arcs—namely, how rarely female villains seem to get any sort of...
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The Unlikability Paradox and Why Female Characters Should Move Beyond It
When it comes to male characters, people love them, or love to hate them, or have complicated feelings about them. Male characters run the gamut from Peter Parker to Hannibal Lecter, and people have a...
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Stranger Things 3 Tries to Do Better by Female Characters, but Still Has a...
Stranger Things has always had a bit of a problem with women. Eleven has had some great moments, but too often, Joyce, Nancy, and Max are treated like secondary characters by the narrative, there only...
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A Celebration of Libba Bray’s Ferocious and Flawed Leading Characters In the...
There are books you read at a certain age that stay with you throughout your life. In middle school, I picked up a copy of Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty, the first book in the Gemma Doyle...
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Yes, Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley Are Great, but They’re Not the End All Be...
I find it interesting that any time misogyny in action movies—or their fans—is pointed out, we’re bombarded with “Sarah Connor, though!” or “Ellen Ripley is great!” responses, as if, because we have...
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The Rise and Fall of the Unlikeable Female Character
By the time I published my first book How to Break a Boy, in 2017, I’d been part of the young adult industry in some capacity for nearly five years, and gatekeepers and readers alike had long been...
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Let’s Talk About the ‘Ranking of Kings’ Ending Because I Have Some Feelings
Ranking of Kings was the breakout anime of the winter 2021/2022 season. For anyone who’s watched Ranking of Kings, the appeal of the show is clear. Bojji and Kage alone give the show more heart and...
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The 10 Most Inspiring Female Characters in Video Games
As a feminist, I fully understand those who take issue with highlighting how “inspiring” women can be. We still suffer daily injustices that should have been left in the Stone Age. It would be nice if...
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The Strong Women of One Piece Are a Reaction to Their Absence From Older Manga
This weekend, the first chapter of One Piece’s final saga was published in Shounen Jump. To celebrate, One Piece’s mangaka, Eiichiro Oda, and Dectective Conan’s mangaka, Gosho Aoyama, interviewed each...
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The Best Female Characters in ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’
Jumping into the world of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure might be startling for some. If you’re not into the fantastical, men that aren’t all masculine, queerness, etc. then it’s not an anime for you. For...
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The 3 Best Female Characters in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’
Some anime are hard to rewatch because the content is difficult to absorb a second time around. And Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of those for a lot of folks. If you don’t remember (or haven’t...
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Best Female Characters in Attack on Titan
When it comes to female characters in anime, it’s a hit or miss—and all too often, it’s a miss. On the one hand, you can have an Orihme Inoue and Misa Amane, and on the other, we have Maki Zenin and...
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Non-Cis-Male Characters Turned The Tide In The Onigashima Battle in ‘One...
When you think of a shounen series, chances are that One Piece will be one of the first titles to spring to mind. “Shounen” literally means “young boy,” and, naturally, the shounen genre tends to...
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Forget Girlbosses—Here are Twitter’s Favorite Girlfailures
We’re all familiar with the Girlboss: the take-charge, no-nonsense woman who controls her own destiny and claws her way to the top. You know, like the infinitely likable Miranda Priestly from The...
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This Podcast is Giving the Women of Marvel the Attention They Deserve
What’s the best part of the Marvel Universe? The sprawling diversity of its characters—particularly its women. Our Rachel Leishman sat down with Ellie Pyle and Preeti Chhibber, the co-hosts of the...
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Beth and Summer Have Become Their Own Main Characters in ‘Rick and Morty’
The show may be called Rick and Morty, but we’re also here for Beth and Summer. In the first few seasons of Rick and Morty, the focus tended to be on the two titular characters. Through the seasons,...
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A ‘Loki’ Viewer Has Compiled Some Depressing Data on Its Female Characters
You don’t have to be a diehard Sylki shipper to notice that something felt off in Loki season 2, especially when it came to the series’ female characters. Now, one viewer has compiled data indicating...
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10 best fantasy books with female leads, ranked
Fantasy can be a real sausage fest, a bunch of Chosen One dudes yanking each other’s magic swords (if you know what I mean). Thankfully, since the days of King Arthur, female authors have carved a...
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