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This Twitter Rant Might Change How You Think About Female Characters

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At this point, the debate over “strong female characters” has gotten a bit stale. Movies and TV keep serving up tough women, but they mostly still don’t come across as actually “strong characters” in any meaningful sense. So this Twitter mini-rant by science fiction writer Ada Hoffman is incredibly useful.

Hoffman’s tweets speak for themselves — they’re a great lecture on not just representation of female characters, but good writing generally:

https://twitter.com/embed/status/567721214110887936

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https://twitter.com/embed/status/567721332587368449

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https://twitter.com/embed/status/567721967391105024

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