character

  • How Sexism Shapes Your Characters

    What does it actually mean to claim that “men and women are different”? There’s a lot that goes into it—a cornucopia of biology and genetics, personal lived experience, the influence of external opinions, and thousands of years and hundreds of cultures’ worth of social conditioning. I see many people trying to use this statement as…

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  • She’s Not Like Other Girls

    In today’s installment of “how did the patriarchy screw up the media?,” we’re going to talk about the infamous “not like other girls” trend. Some may be under the impression that this movement was the result of “angry feminists” who sought to desecrate the sacred concept of femininity. But in reality, it was just another…

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