Jennifer Garner Reads Go the F**k to Sleep
I have the Morgan Freeman version on Audible, but Jennifer Garners version is amazing and officially my favorite. A must watch!
Thank you Vanity Fair!
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Female-Driven Genre-Fiction Wishlist:
- Girl teams, all girl teams.
- Female characters of color who actually represent their culture.
- Less self-sacrificing, martyr girls more girls and women who do things for themselves without feeling bad about it or people judging them for it.
- Mothers who do things other than parent and cook.
- Mother and daughter characters who don’t hate each others guts.
- No more “I’m not like the other girls”.
- Girl characters who are good at math and science.
- More poor female characters, who come from nothing, and exploring how that effects their heroism. And I don’t mean like middle-class poor, I mean, like having to chose between food and paying bills poor.
- Girls who don’t like each other, but can still respect each other.
- No more girl heroes/villains whose tragic backstory is getting raped.
- No more female characters of color dying or sacrificing themselves for white female characters.
- More fat girl characters in fantasy and other genre fiction who are the ones kicking-ass and taking names and being haled the hero. That are defined by something other than their weight.
- More girls of various body-types other than “lean.”
- More disabled characters in stories that aren’t necessarily about their disability.
- More unattractive girl characters.
- Girls that are not looking for relationships or losing their virginity.
- More non-binary female characters.
- More LGBTAQ+ female characters.
- “Strong” female characters who actually do things other than fight all the time and have a personality.
- More “strong” female characters whose “strength” is something other than fighting.
- No more stories sold as “feminist” in which only the leading character is female and everyone else is man, and only other female characters are minor or antagonists.
- No more using “like a girl” or being a girl as an insult.
- Stop making female characters be “bitches” just because. Unlikable characters are still supposed to be likable, meaning: love to hate, hate to love. Just look at Scarlett O’Hara, she’s a godawful awful person, but she’s a fantastic character.
Feel free to add yours.
Adding “The nards of Sharsil” to my list of favorite accidental spoonerisms ever.
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