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The invisible animated girl via Nilah, which, again, unsurprising even though cartoons are generally thought to be more egalitarian (ponies princesses et cetera). This trend is, I’m sure, related to the culturally enforced idea that male protagonists (i.e. boys) are more gender neutral than…

whatchu got against toads

but seriously, this is pretty dismal. I can relate to the feeling of wanting to be a boy. but I feel grateful to my parents for not giving me and my sisters special treatment because we’re girls (my mom loves samurai detective stories and tales of girls dressing as boys; my dad is just incredibly oblivious to the point where he would buy us “boys” clothing by accident). when I discovered I wanted to tell stories through comics, for a while I thought I should work with boy protagonists because that’s the only way ~everyone~ can relate, which is incredibly telling, ugh.

I am glad the article mentions the absence of such a stark gender divide outside the States. I always bring up Asian cinema and dramas as an example when people don’t seem to understand the issue. while watching Breaking Bad I casually mentioned to a friend “wouldn’t it be cool if the clean up guy (Mike) was a woman?” and made a joke about not being able to tell the difference between all the middle-aged white dudes. suddenly my friend was all “no, it wouldn’t be realistic and would pull me out of the story and…” etc. so what, like Saul Goodman isn’t basically a live action cartoon lawyer?