![]() Topicality aside, it’s simply a great book. But those aren’t the only reasons you should read it. Take Meg Wolitzer’s highly anticipated twelfth novel, The Female Persuasion, which is being trumpeted as a specifically feminist triumph, a novel that’s “ right for the #MeToo moment,” and that “ captures our era’s gender politics.” Yes, it is, and it does. By contrast, any secondary female character in a recent DC or Marvel movie would love an arc as nuanced and interesting as Jessica’s neighbor, Malcolm. ![]() (They are usually talking, as they should be, about Jessica Jones.)Įven there, male characters are developed and intelligent, with their own goals, thoughts, and feelings. Do female artists treat men better than male artists treat women? Take, for example, the second season of Jessica Jones, which plants you in a deeply reverse-Bechdel-test world where minutes, if not hours, can pass before two men are seen onscreen together, let alone talking about someone or something besides a woman. ![]()
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