Concerning my previous little exercise with gender statistics, sometimes when people talk in fandom it sounds as if female characters on TV, especially strong female characters, is something brand new. That 15-20 years ago, you'd be lucky to find one girl on a show, and she was usually the secretary or love interest. This has confused me a bit. ( Read more... )

verstehen has a good rant about good 40+ female characters on TV. With a list. And it just so happens that last week when I was having a long boring train ride to an interview in Bålsta, I started making a list much like that one. That is to say, it started as a list of TV mothers I liked, but soon morphed into 40+ women in general. After that rant, I ( Read more... )