Twelfth Knight

by Alexene Farol Follmuth

some dude who insists that the female lead, Liliana, is a Mary Sue, which is basically just code for “I don’t like or respect women.” So what if a female character is “unrealistic”? How else do you explain every single male comic book hero?

She likes her own space, like I do. We are not the sort of women designed to pick a mate and settle down.

“There’s nothing else you get to keep or take with you except the relationships you have. The way you love, the love you give, that matters.”

“I do not hate everything. I like plenty of stuff.” “Said like a robot trying to pass for a human. Or an alien anthropologist. Or a narc.”

it’s considered very feminine,” she qualifies, making a face. “Like only women want to see happy endings. It’s deplorable.”