have embraced the antiheroine, the unlikeable female character, and, in fact, increasingly build narratives around her. Female unlikeability has become a marketing tool. The once negative tropes have been expanded and deepened to create memorable, complicated, intensely human characters. Bitches, Trainwrecks, and Sluts are dominating pop culture. Creators have embraced the messy reality of being a woman, expanded on distinctively gendered shades of cruelty, and run with it, telling stories placed in fantasy worlds, contemporary scenarios, and imagined alternatives to our world.
