Female Archetypes: Damsels in Distress from Helen of Troy to Fleabag
For many, many, many (too many) centuries, women were not in charge of building narratives that would fairly represent them. So, men being men, us of the feminine persuasion were generally categorized as either unrepentant whores or absolute bloody saints. Granted, somewhere in the spectrum of side characters, we were also painted as “too fragile for this world,”; which normally resulted in us being either suicidal dopes or lunatic sorceresses. Continue reading Female Archetypes: Damsels in Distress from Helen of Troy to Fleabag