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Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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shanaqui

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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I didn't DNF this, but I did start skimming. It was just so obvious. And I know it ultimately wasn't going to go *much* into the perfectly likeable female characters who get vilified by pop culture and fandom, but it didn't even touch on it. Disappointing in the end, and definitely makes me wonder if her book on horror was just as obvious to someone who actually likes horror films.

Still somehow avoiding a #BookSpinBingo by following my whim. 😂

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shanaqui

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

I really like Bogutskaya's more recent book on horror, but I'm kinda reevaluating in that in light of how *obvious* this is. I grew up in fandom with Relena Peacecraft and Rinoa Heartily being vilified for being “unlikeable“, and turned into caricatures that made absolutely no sense -- angry “bitches“, “sluts“, etc. Nothing here is particularly insightful.

Contemplating DNFing, or at least skimming. Disappointing.

Faranae Relena was definitely written to be extremely admirable, but the Western fandom really hated her for the most part. And that's something interesting to examine. I've seen a lot of “stanning women doing bad things“ from white feminists that rather concerns me, because it feels like they are missing that it's not about everyone getting to be equally awful... 1mo

shanaqui @Faranae I feel like this is very much in that vein, where I'd hoped for it to discuss more why female characters are considered unlikeable for basically no reason. I'd expected it to deal with Rey from Star Wars, for instance, but not so far... instead it discusses various archetypes of “unlikeable“ characters (“the bitch“, “the slut“, “the angry woman“, “the weirdo“, “the trainwreck“). 1mo

shanaqui @Faranae And she has a point in that male characters can be angry or sexual or messed up without the same dislike accruing, but I think really examining “Unlikeable Female Characters“ requires a bit more attention to the characters who we hate for no good reason, too. 1mo

Faranae @shanaqui Going for only the traditional “evil woman“ archetypes seems fairly shallow. We have read this listicle before! Male characters often get to be multifaceted yes, but you can also write a male villain that's 1-dimensional like the female archetypes. I think one would *have* to examine why people hate characters for no good reason to get at the meat of “unlikeable women“ and how to write multi-faceted women who get to also be likeable. 1mo

Faranae @shanaqui I was fascinated by the different reactions I and my chat had to Jane Austen's Lady Susan versus someone else. We loved it, and read Susan as a lady rake whose real love is Alicia. She's a terrible mother! But we were rooting for her to get her cake and eat it, too. The other streamer and chat hated her for being a slut (their words), a bad mother, and selfish. They didn't see any affection between her and Alicia at all, either. 1mo

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Smarkies

The Kris Mystic Weapon of The Malay World | Edward Frey

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Picked up this slim volume from the library. Interesting little read about this cultural item from the south east Asian region.

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vlwelser

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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I thought this was an interesting audiobook. It looks at tv and film and how things have changed over time.

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo

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keithmalek

The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America | Coleman Hughes

My 10 favorite books of 2024. Number 3.

#2024Top10

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DGRachel

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate | Anna Bogutskaya

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Spoilers abound in this book that examines a variety of tropes in pop culture/film & television. While I didn‘t find anything earth-shattering in the author‘s observations or conclusions, it did piss me off. Admittedly, I live in a rage-filled emotional state these days, but I‘m an American woman and all you have to do is look at our elected officials to understand the anger. The essence of the book is this: Fuck. The. Patriarchy.

Leftcoastzen I was curious about this one ! 4mo

BookmarkTavern I haven‘t read this yet. But two thumbs up for your review! 4mo

GingerAntics Sounds like a good book to me! 4mo

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REPollock

Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness | Jamil Zaki

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An absolute must-read, giving this book as holiday gifts this year!

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AshleyHoss820

Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity | Conrad Kottak

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The Anthropology class I took was a disaster, but this book was its saving grace. I actually enjoyed the readings and learned far more than I had expected. I encourage anyone to take an anthropology or sociology class if they can. I mentioned earlier that is it just so fascinating to know that you aren‘t all that different from someone from far away, yet you can learn new ways of existing as well. As we say with our boys, “Different, not less.”

Megabooks I fell in love with Cultural Anthropology in undergrad and ended up making it one of my minors. I don't use it much today, but I truly enjoyed studying it! 4mo

AshleyHoss820 @Megabooks Were I a younger woman when taking this course, I think I would have changed majors. I always wanted to go into forensic anthropology! It‘s such a feather in your cap and I love that you had that experience! ☺️🧡 4mo

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bibliothecarivs

Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People | Charlie Campbell

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell
📖 Dramas of Testimony: The Dance of Death I & II / Advent / Easter / There are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
📖 English Hours by Henry James

#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead

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