Strong Female Characters
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Breaking News! According to recent studies, women are, in fact, people. Who knew! Tune in this episode to learn how to write female characters that don’t suck. It’s not that hard, and yet somehow we had to make an episode about it. Including such groundbreaking revelations as “strong female characters shouldn’t be male coded characters with boobs,” “characters who claim to be able to kick everyone’s ass but just fall down a lot are the actual worst,” and “even the strongest female characters who can never quite be stronger than your main male characters are not, in fact, good enough strong female characters.” Learn how to avoid all these pitfalls and more in this far from comprehensive rant about why so many existing Strong Female Characters™ suck. Oh, and there’s some writing advice, too. Have a trope you want us to talk about or a question about the episode? Email us at [email protected]!
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