Unlikeable Female Characters: Flawed Female Characters and the Power They Hold

by Anna Bogutskaya

Even though I threw away that rule book on how to be girl, I couldn’t escape the rules.

reminds me of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird

Horror cinema has always been ahead of the curve, a Trojan horse of a genre with its own thorny relationship to women that is a subject for another book entirely.

would like to read a book about the history of women in horror

In her 2014 essay about likeability for Buzzfeed, author Roxane Gay writes that “when a girl is unlikeable, a girl is a problem.”