Intended for a core audience of young girls, this cartoon series and toy line (or, if you are makers Hasbro, toy line and attendant cartoon series) has acquired a significant and phenomenally creative periphery audience of young men and women (mostly men) who have expressed their devotion through art, fiction, music and video game mods, among other media.

FORBES: Dividendgame

Professor Lola Young, chairman of the judges, called British novels "piddling" and "parochial" compared with American women's fiction.

BBC: Writers slated for 'Bridget Jones' novels

There was poetry and fiction, too, and a substantial section called Women In Business, the first general business magazine to have such a department, it claimed.

FORBES: The Inaugurative Forbes Magazine

As this influence waned, the gentle irony in Mr. Naipaul's fiction gave way to cooler contempt about developing nations, women and sex.

WSJ: Book Review: New Ways to Kill Your Mother

The Army has begun investigating how to make armor plating that better fits the human body a process that could lead to science fiction visions of futuristic body armor fitted to both men and women.

MSN: US Army tests body armor for female soldiers