I'm just a girl, take a good look at me
Just your typical prototype
~No Doubt
Let me preface this by saying that I really like each song/book/movie that I refer to in this post. In fact, I only chose songs/books/movies that I liked so as to avoid a huge bias against artists I didn’t like. I think every artist mentioned in this post has some wonderful things to say, often about feminism as well.
Let me also mention here that this post contains the word “awesome” more often than is necessary.
I’ve been noticing an unsettling trend in songs and books and movies, and that is:
Awesome heroines are awesome because they are not like other girls.
Y’all, what’s up with that? You know what I’m talking about.
