How do you know each other? http://egotastic.in.net egotastic Fiction has a unique power to communicate alternative world views – I first learned feminism from Buffy while I was still in a Christian fundamentalist church. But we still consume stories in a patriarchal context that shapes how we think about gendered people, real or made up. I’m sick of kung-fu moves counting as characterization for fictional women, too. I want more. And I think there’s still work to do to move towards a paradigm where female characters can be read as complex and multidimensional while we’re dealing with the context of globalized, racialized patriarchy.