Women in Media project progress

This project has been really interesting! It's strange to see how few positive female characters there are in the mainstream media. Especially in the news, I never realized how sexualized women in the news were until I started this project. I think something important though is how many of the articles I read demonized the stereotypical "strong women" trope in media. An example of this would be any of the characters from sucker punch. While it's obvious they're physically strong, they're all WAY sexualized and don't have much to them other than being a "strong female character". (Kate Beaton does a good job of summing up everything wrong with strong female characters). The biggest problem is that this is what producers and writers think of when they think of a "strong female character" when really when people ask for that they really just want better written women. Instead of a two dimensional character, people want women who are more than an idealized version of women. More realistic women are really important because they prove that women are super important and not just for men.