Kennedy Cannon’s Reviews > Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate > Status Update

“The burden of likeability had so far been shouldered mostly by the female characters, and while the male protagonists were praised for their problematic or extreme complexities, complicated women were villainized, punished, or used as cultural warning signs.”

“Thinking of these characters deemed unlikeable, I’m not thinking about which bits of myself I can see in them—I’m living out a fantasy in which I don’t care whether people like me or not.”