{"id":3615,"date":"2016-10-20T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Im-sure-there-are-mentally-ill-female-characters-in-SFF-though-offhand-Im-struggling-to-think-of-any-really"},"modified":"2016-10-20T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:24:12","slug":"im-sure-there-are-mentally-ill-female-characters-in-sff-though-offhand-im-struggling-to-think-of-any-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/20\/im-sure-there-are-mentally-ill-female-characters-in-sff-though-offhand-im-struggling-to-think-of-any-really\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sure there are mentally ill female characters in SFF, though offhand I&#8217;m struggling to think of any really&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are mentally ill female characters in SFF, though offhand I&#8217;m struggling to think of any really obvious examples. Even in my own <em>Hope and the Patient Man<\/em>, Hope&#8217;s issues are framed as a magical curse, though it has definite psychological aspects to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can anyone think of examples?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Cody Sisco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I appreciate this discussion of how female mentally ill characters are portrayed, and I understand  and respect the writer&#8217;s decision to focus on female characters. But I don&#8217;t think mentally ill characters of any gender identity are often or well represented in fiction. What do you all think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.tor.com\/2016\/10\/17\/mentally-ill-women-belong-in-your-stories-too\/?utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_term=tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter&amp;utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&amp;utm_campaign=tor<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I&#8217;m sure there are mentally ill female characters in SFF, though offhand I&#8217;m struggling to think of any really&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/10\/20\/im-sure-there-are-mentally-ill-female-characters-in-sff-though-offhand-im-struggling-to-think-of-any-really\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}