Yan Basque is troubled by the gender dynamics and female characters in The Walking Dead. Kelly at She Has No Head takes a look at 10 female characters and tries to see the shining moments in characters she’s not entirely comfortable with.
Two articles about female characters and representing sexism and misogyny in Mad Men and The Social Network.
Overthinking It presents: The Female Character Flowchart. It is intricate, exhaustive and thought-provoking. (via SFSignal)
There’s a sickness in my stomach I’ve been carrying a while, an unpleasant acid feeling that bothers me when I’ve been reading or reading about comics lately. And I guess it’s time for me to cough it up and see what the hell is burning a hole inside.
Stéphanie Mercier uses gameplay to make a point in her short, “Girls Suck at Video Games.”
Hope Larson knows what girls like. She knows what girls want in comics–because she asked.
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