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Goodreads Poll Finds that Readers Stick to Their Own Gender

Goodreads recently polled 40,000 British citizens on their reading habits and among the many trends that popped up, the one making the rounds today is all about sex. Namely, the surprising gender divide between male and female readers and the writers they prefer.

No, Gillian Anderson’s The Fall Is Not Just “Classy Misogyny”

On November 16, Observer columnist Rachel Cooke took the second series of BBC's <em>The Fall</em> to task over her belief that the show was little more than a fetishization of violence against women. Allow me to disagree.

Is Doctor Who‘s Missy Reveal Progressive or Patronizing?

I'll be honest -- I really wasn't expecting Moffat to surprise me in this episode. Instead, there were <em>two</em> proper, spine-tingling, didn't-see-it-coming surprises.

Why Are We Still Fighting About YA Lit?

Over the summer, Slate magazine's Ruth Graham ruffled some feathers by attacking the great guilty pleasure that is Young Adult Literature. The main thrust of the article involved Graham waggling her shame finger at the number of grown-ups who seemed to be stuck in Neverland—refusing to read "proper" novels in favor of the latest John Green tearfest or a dystopian sexy teen death duel.

Rethinking the Progressiveness of Fargo‘s Molly Solverson

The problem with Molly isn’t Molly. The problem with Molly is the way in which the show's writers have configured her as a Strong Female Character in a wasteland of women that we're intended to see as sluts, nags and doormats.