We all love the Strong Female Character. Why? Because gone are the days of the damsel in distress. We don't want Prince Charming to swoop in and save the day — we want our strong female character to save herself. But, unfortunately, the Strong Female Character has become a stereotype. An annoying one.
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These are 15 kinds of women we see in rom-coms that we just don't believe.
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1. The Bella Swan (i.e. the blank sheet of paper) Who she is: In Twilight, I found Bella to have very few qualities indicative of a strong character. She’s shown to have very little personality, in...
“Game of Thrones” Characters as Seen by AI As many of you might know, Game of Thrones was actually a book series long before it made its way to our screens. While book one is called A Game of Thrones, the series is named A Song of Ice and Fire, and it’s the work of …
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How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film, TV, and wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are being accepted by audiences and even showered with industry awards. We are finally accepting that women are-gasp-fully fledged human beings. How did we get to this point? Unlikeable Female Characters traces the evolution of highly memorable female characters, from Samantha Jones as "The Slut" in Sex and the City to the iconic Mean Girl, Regina George, examining what exactly makes them popular, how audiences have reacted to them, and the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman. Anna Bogutskaya, film programmer, broadcaster, and co-founder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls, takes us on a journey through popular film, TV, and music, looking at the nuances of womanhood on and off-screen to reveal whether pop culture-and society-is finally ready to embrace complicated women.
Female villains are stuck in a rut. They all look and act the same, and worst of all, they lack tangible motives. Let’s revolutionize them in four effective ways.
We can't all be Wonder Woman.
Pretend to live in high society London.
"Women do not look in the mirror and compare their breasts to fruit."
If you grew up as a literature-loving young lady, there's no doubt that you also had a bookshelf full of novels with characters you felt were as near and dear as any flesh and blood friend out there in the so-called "real world." Did you ever…
Are you Erin, Clare, Michelle, Orla or James?
Hermione or Luna?
There are plenty of mixed messages in Jess Cochrane's works. And that's deliberately so. Her paintings force us to ignore societal expectations, beauty norms and what we've been trained to see – in...