This post is a little jumbled, but I've been thinking about attitudes towards women and feminism, and I just wanted to get my thoughts out in the open.

( cut for talk of misogyny and sexual harassment )

 Wow, TV Tropes, changing the trope "Pink Bishoujo Ghetto" to Improbably Female Cast isn't cool. It implies that anything with a lady heavy cast is "improbable," and something that should be avoided.  Moderators have said it only applies to cases were it would be unrealistic, like in a military unit during a time when women didn't serve on the ( Read more... )

mekosuchinae linked to a particularly awful and fail-filled female character flow chart that was completely counterproductive and missed the point. www.overthinkingit.com/2010/10/11/female-character-flowchart/

My instinctive reaction to this was, "can we please stop putting down female characters in the name of feminism." Things like this are one of many ( Read more... )

A really long time ago, I started reading a book called "Mean Genes" Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan; it is a study on human behaviour. It sounds ambiguous, and yes: it was bad!

( Bad research indeed... )