That author thinks Marvel publishes Batgirl, so who knows? But it's probably True Blood.

What am I missing here?

These calls for strong female characters start to run into trouble with trans women, nonwhite women, and women of colour in pop culture. Because women in all three of these categories are automatically expected to be strong.

When did nonwhite and "of colour" start meaning usefully different things? And trans women are expected to be strong?

I think they mean Tara in "True Blood", because the back half of the article is comparing how white women are portrayed as "strong" to how nonwhite or POC women are portrayed and one of the links is to an article about Tara (the oversexed link).

I fell back to sleep after posting. i haven't called the dr. Getting there seems impossible. I guess i'll wait until tomorrow. i am totally whiny bc I am supposed to be on vacation. I wonder if I could change this to a sick day.

I think they mean Tara from TB too.

That's just crappy writing. Her *thesis statement*, such as it is, introduces three characters, and then she goes on to compare one of them to someone else. Who she never introduces properly. I don't know much about True Blood, so I never would have made the jump without you guys.

Tsk.

By hovering over the links in the prior paragraph I'm guessing she was introduced in one of them, but that's expecting a lot.

I totally did not have the patience to click all of the links. And I have never watched True Blood, so I have no idea who that it. And there is a person by that name in the show Buffy was on, so that is just super-confusing.

Totally.

And I virtually never click links while I'm reading an article. At best I'll open them in other tabs to come back to. So while I hate to pile on a site I really like, a piece that depends on people going away to read the embedded links and coming back to finish the paragraph hits a lot of my hot buttons.

Consuela, over in Bitches, I talked about my moron stepbrother and that drug-test thing. It would suck if I didn't have to look at pictures of his ugly kids anymore. I don't know why that is such a big hot-button, but it is. So is libertarian males saying their female friends should be free to be prostitutes. Most other things, I scroll by.

Yeah, it may be considered old school now, but I expect to be able to understand the whole piece by reading just the text on the current page. I'm like brenda -- I may open links later, but not in the middle of the article I'm reading now.

I like the site too! I was just really missing something. I thought for a second they were comparing different ways women could be strong- from Buffy (physical strength) to Tara (from Buffy), who had a very strong emotional backbone.