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Neil Gaiman Has Some Thoughts On Strong Female Characters
BBC Radio recently did a special on Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the 10th anniversary of the Joss Whedon series airing in Britain. Naomi Alderman spoke with several people including Whedon and Neil...
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Witches, Wise Women, and Widows: A Cultural Look at Viking RPG The Banner Saga
There was a storm warning in Reykjavík the night I started playing The Banner Saga. As my computer booted and my tea steeped, I made the rounds in my apartment, securing the latches of my windows —...
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In Which A Game Developer Actively Tries To Avoid Gendered Artwork
When development studio QCF started their beta build of Desktop Dungeons, they knew that their female characters needed some rethinking. The team’s awareness about female representation in games had...
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Let’s Get Mad: Center for Study of Women in TV and Film Releases 2013...
Just a couple months ago, the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film released their report on the gender ratios of Hollywood’s workers, discovering that the ratio of women to men in...
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On Average, The Top Women-Led Films of 2013 Grossed Higher Than Male-Led Films
As we’ve previously discussed, of the 100 highest-grossing films of 2013, a whopping 15 featured female protagonists. This figure became popular knowledge through a report by the Center for the Study...
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In Praise of the Women of Elementary
Elementary is unique among the many recent retellings of A.C. Doyle’s famous detective, for better or worse depending on your tastes, because it takes familiar characters and story elements and places...
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MPAA Statistics Break the Stunning News That Most of the People Who Go the...
Every year at CinemaCon the MPAA releases statistics (report here) on the previous year’s moviegoers: What percentage of them can be classified as “frequent moviegoers,” how 3D movies do across...
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Comics Review: Lumberjanes
From Nimona creator Noelle Stevenson, first-time comic author Grace Ellis, and artist Brooke Allen comes Lumberjanes! Produced by Boom! Studios, this first book is a delightful camp adventure in the...
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Sexual Agency and Zombie Butts: Why Bob’s Burgers‘ Tina Belcher Matters
If you had told me back in 2011 that Tina Belcher would be my absolute favorite character on H. Jon Benjamin’s new show Bob’s Burgers, let alone that she’d be one of my favorite characters on...
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5 Upcoming Female-Led Games to Get Excited About For the Rest of This Year
To the surprise of no one, women are still majorly underrepresented in video games — especially in terms of protagonists. Thankfully, game studios seem to be recognizing this as a problem and taking...
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She-Hulk Co-Creator Stan Lee Reacts to David Goyer’s “Porn Star” Statements
I know I was looking for a new female superhero, and the idea of an intelligent Hulk-type grabbed me. …Never for an instant did I want her as a love interest for Hulk. Only a nut would even think of...
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Hollywood is a Jerk: Kitty Pryde, Sexism, and Days of Future Past
I don’t like time travel. Excusing the excuse that it’s a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, most Hollywood time travel consists of altering linear timelines to forestall mistakes, death,...
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Teen Wolf‘s Lydia, Defying Tropes of Sex, Smarts, and Beauty in Female...
In Teen Wolf, a show full of alpha males and machismo, one of the most interesting characters is something else entirely – a woman. Lydia Martin begins her arc in episode one as a stereotypically...
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What Do the Stars and Original Creator of Doctor Who Have to Say About a...
This past Wednesday, many of us chatted about Steven Moffat‘s remarks concerning casting a female in the titular role of Doctor Who. It seemed like a good idea to delve into the opinions of other...
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Maleficent Screenwriter Comments On Frozen Comparisons, Writing Female...
Disney’s Maleficent made over $170 million worldwide in its first weekend (check out our review!) but it’s domestic take beat their animated powerhouse, Frozen by a few million. Though Maleficent has...
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Reimagining the Female Superhero: Gail Simone, Amy Reeder, Marguerite...
Saturday I attended a panel at Special Edition: NYC, and from what I gathered it was one of the only panels that day that was even nearing maximum capacity. The Carol Corps, various members of the...
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We All Benefit From Better Representation - C'mon, people, it's not rocket...
It’s 2014, and I keep asking myself: Why aren’t we farther than this? I don’t just mean the lack of space colonization, sarcastic robots, and hoverboards that films promised me would be here by now. I...
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Zelda Opens a Bottle of Whoop-Ass in Hyrule Warriors as the Game Adds Even...
We may have been disappointed that speculation about a female protagonist/playable character in the next main-series Zelda game turned out to be wrong, but Hyrule Warriors is really picking up the...
View ArticleThe True Story Behind “Women Are Too Hard To Animate” - Tonight on 20/20
Thank you, LoadingReadyRun, for delving so deep into this hard-hitting story. (via tipster ItsMyDeLorean) Previously in Laaaaaadies Ubisoft Blames Lack of Female PCs in Assassin’s Creed on “Reality of...
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SEGA Announces Sigourney Weaver & The Original Alien Cast Will Feature In...
BRB, running around the room screaming. Hey, SEGA, I was already going to play this game but thanks for sucking up. We’ve previously expressed our excitement for Alien: Isolation, the game in which you...
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