To all appearances, it would seem that all of the female members of this purportedly 240 person team have been put in the front third of this photo. Of course it’s difficult to make out individual faces in the very back, but all the visible female faces are assembled in a group closest to the [...]
Tag Archives: gender
The List of Strong Female Characters
August 23, 2008 – 10:18 am
I’ve finally found a moment to compile the 100+ strong-female-character suggestions you made into a centralized gender studies list. Where big blocks of titles from a single author were suggested, I transposed only the first title in the list. The same goes for series. Everything else, even if it didn’t meet the qualifications, was moved [...]
Through the Looking Glass: Male Characters & Sexuality
August 11, 2008 – 9:00 am
In the comments of my second post on strong female characters and sexuality, Denis put forth an interesting proposition. One of the problems is that we rarely see males use [sexuality] because we seem to still be of the opinion (or at least the media would have us believe) that women are not as interested [...]
