Posts Tagged Strong Women

Skyler White with text "I'm not always a bitch. Just kidding, I always am"
By Jos Truitt • 11 years ago

The Skyler White problem: can we accept complex female characters?

*Spoilers for Breaking Bad, Buffy, Firefly, and Game of Thrones*

Sophia McDougall’s great article “I hate Strong Female Characters” has been posted all over my social networks in the past week. I agree that female characters in pop fiction rarely get to be full, complex people, and that “strength” often functions as another one-dimensional, unrealistic cliche.

I’ve been mulling over this topic, and it seems to me the problem involves more than just writers creating one-dimensional women. Women in the real world get pigeon-holed into impossibly contradictory stereotypes, too (virgin/whore) – I’m a woman and a feminist I know I work to be conscious of this kind of stereotyping, including of myself. Meanwhile, the actions of white men rarely limit ...

*Spoilers for Breaking Bad, Buffy, Firefly, and Game of Thrones*

Sophia McDougall’s great article “I hate Strong Female Characters” has been posted all over my social networks in the past week. I agree that female characters ...
By Rose • 13 years ago

Review: Detroit Repertory Theatre’s Production of “A Lesson Before Dying”

Have you ever watched something that made you feel plugged into something larger than yourself? Has a work of art ever made you feel brand new and reflective about your shortcomings all at the same time? Have you seen something lately that made you feel inspired and lucky that you were alive to witness it? After spending this past Friday viewing the Detroit Repertory Theatre’s production of “A Lesson Before Dying,” in the words of Beyonce “All I can say is YES!”

This beautifully acted play exploring the hardships facing blacks in the 1940s was directed by Barbara Busby (a woman!), written by Romulus Linney (who sadly passed this month), and is an adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize-nominated ...

Have you ever watched something that made you feel plugged into something larger than yourself? Has a work of art ever made you feel brand new and reflective about your shortcomings all at the same ...