But the market is still over-saturated with female characters in degrading or objectified roles.
One reason might be the expense of adding female characters to the software.
One of the biggest problems in the first two movies is the complete lack of compelling female characters.
Complaints that his books featured no strong female characters met only contemptuous dismissal.
His fiction was immature but promising, extolling male bonding while describing unsatisfactory love affairs between his male and female characters.
Only when the female characters start to work together to take the collective action so beloved by progressive organizers does actual change occur.
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The erotic novels all have to have strong female characters who are willing participants in whatever excitements might be on offer.
Not only are there far fewer female characters than there are male, but the hyper sexualization of those characters is outrageous.
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Below you can see the female characters on each Fictional 15 since 2005, with their rank, source of wealth and net worth.
In a Freudian sense, female characters are either warm and loving like the "supportive, luscious peach" or evil like the wicked aunts.
Third, with no major female characters, it can be dull in performance.
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These were marginalization, stereotyping and the alienation of women and female characters.
But in this movie, he smartly used both Talia and Selina, as they are probably the two best female characters in the franchise.
It has been a constant struggle to include female characters on the Forbes Fictional 15, our annual ranking of the richest fictional characters.
We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
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Many Skyrim mods seem geared at making the female characters as sexy as possible, but at least a few of them are actually pretty cool.
Having female characters in a game as eye candy is one thing, but some male players may not feel comfortable controlling GI Jane instead of GI Joe.
Or how about the Mass Effect series, which has a near-equal mix of male-female characters on the roster and even allows the player to be a female commander Shepard?
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"Staging the World" also touches on the subject of cross-dressing a recurring comic device in the plays, in which female characters, like Rosalind in "As You Like It, " are in male disguise.
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Lara endures exactly as much trauma as any of her male counterparts do in games like this, and to me this feels like a step forward for female characters in games.
Despite accounts of inequality, 2012 has been dubbed the year of the woman, and with good reason, given the many strong female characters and women breaking through in the entertainment industry as well as our culture at large.
In "Shirin" (2009), another daring gambit that reflected his growing interest in female characters, about 100 actresses play audience members watching an unseen production of a tragic 12th-century epic, their expressions changing as the tale unfolds on the soundtrack.
In the Kabuki tradition of men playing female characters, Mr. Sawamura's gestural dances, full of delicate facial expressions and artful costume manipulation, marvelously capture the wiles of the serpent-demon maiden hoping to enter the temple that figures in the classic play.
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Her years of experience researching, teaching, directing and acting in his plays are integral to the polished, intellectual appeal of "Women of Will, " in which she analyzes and enacts quite a few of Shakespeare's female characters while correlating their evolution to possible developments in his personal life.
It will be interesting to see whether the game has both male and female Swap Force characters as this has been a key message with both the original and Giant figures.
The first is whether video games should now incorporate female soldiers as playable characters.
Back then, they say the streets were populated at night by all sorts of colorful characters, including female and transvestite prostitutes.
Packer's engaging, five-part analysis of the progression of Shakespeare's attitude toward his female and male characters over the years sets up vigorous enactment of relevant speeches and scenes.
One of his most enduring characters is La Calavera Catrina, a female skeleton in an elaborate low-cut dress and flamboyant flower-covered hat, suggestively revealing a bony leg and an ample bust that is all ribs and no cleavage.
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