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Kate Beaton, Carly Monardo, and Meredith Gran Present: Strong Female Characters

by Susana Polo | 10:14 am, June 28th, 2011


The aforementioned ladies have developed this witheringly sarcastic take on what Hollywood regularly passes off as a Strong Female Character, expressed in a nugget by Mlawski of OverthinkingIt.com thusly (for a bigger nugget, read the whole post):

I think the major problem here is that women were clamoring for “strong female characters,” and male writers misunderstood.  They thought the feminists meant [Strong Female] Characters.  The feminists meant [Strong Characters], Female.

Do we wish that we could publish everything Kate Beaton does?

Yes. Read all the Strong Female Character strips here.

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  • http://twitter.com/KomiIsDrawing Kate Ashwin

    The ‘Daddy Issues’ one is so spot on it hurts

  • http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

    That’s the only one I didn’t get.  Could you enlighten me?

  • http://twitter.com/KomiIsDrawing Komiyan

    ‘Strong Female Characters’ quite often have serious daddy issues that tend to be their weakness in some regard. That or a history of abuse. Oh, and it’s always handled very poorly, too..

  • Eric Bazilio

    The ending was genious. I couldn’t help but remember Sucker Punch when I saw that.

  • http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

    But what does that have to do with the “Eat lead” line?  I feel like I am missing something very obvious….

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