Hey kiddos,


I stumbled across this awesome post that you should definitely read.  It's about the persisting under-representation of females in literature and it is great.  My favorite excerpt from
the piece:
"More insidiously, children’s books with girl protagonists sometimes celebrate their heroines to a fault. Isn’t it amazing that a girl did these things, they seem to say—implying that these heroines are a freakish exception to their gender, not an inspiration for readers to follow."
Preach. It brings to mind an interview with director and writer Joss Whedon (you may know him from such things as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and The Avengers, among other things) in which the interviewer asked him why he keeps writing strong female protagonists, to which he replied, "Because you're still asking me that question."