{"id":3746,"date":"2016-04-18T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Via-Daniel-Swensen-who-got-it-from-Lisa-Cohen"},"modified":"2016-04-18T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:45:02","slug":"via-daniel-swensen-who-got-it-from-lisa-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/04\/18\/via-daniel-swensen-who-got-it-from-lisa-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Daniel Swensen, who got it from Lisa Cohen."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via Daniel Swensen, who got it from Lisa Cohen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pop culture seems to have got halfway away from the Damsel In Distress trope, making female characters competent &#8211; but not competent enough to save themselves. That&#8217;s still the man&#8217;s job, even though he&#8217;s less competent than they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I (and Daniel and Lisa) deliberately set out to subvert this, by making competent women protagonists who save themselves &#8211; and, sometimes, the men &#8211; and defeat the villains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Susan Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/4\/18\/11433378\/heroes-female-sidekicks<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Via Daniel Swensen, who got it from Lisa Cohen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-and-representation","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}