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Thank you, Siothrún!

I enjoyed your article! I don’t usually pair feminism with food, but I love the points you made. I agree with the community aspect!

I love your article! Very relevant issue. I like how you include the history of fairytales. Those norms are outdated! I like how Disney princesses are getting more personalities, but those pervasive beauty standards, and even standards of good behavior as you pointed out, are detrimental.

I agree with your points! I love Vampire Diaries, but around season 5 it starts to be less appealing. In defense of Vampire Diaries, it is very difficult to keep a good show going when you have already gone through much of the main story. I especially like your point about interesting villains. After the Originals become less scary, there aren’t a lot of good villains. In seasons seven and eight, the villains become too evil, with no good in them. The allure of a great villain is one who choses to be evil but has some hint of good in them.

I enjoyed reading this article! The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite classics. I agree that although it is a stereotype, it is still part of our modern-day culture that men want beauty and women want wealth. I think there is more to matchmaking than that, but beauty and money are still strong influences in the marriage market today (for both men and women). Also, I think that Gatsby loved money more than Daisy. Gatsby didn’t just want Daisy, he wanted everything she represented: wealth, class, and social prestige. However, he did love Daisy too, but it was a foolish and shallow love, as you point out.

Interesting article! I think you raise some good points- female writers likely fall into similar traps as male writers do sometimes with making the opposite sex too stereotypical or fake. However, I think some of the examples you use show how female writers have created some complex male characters successfully. Snape, for example, is a complex character who avoids being placed into a box. Rochester is also rather complex. I think an interesting side question is how do these stereotypes affect men and women with dating? But at the same time, sometimes you just like reading a good story with heroic characters, rather than realistic ones. Twilight gets criticized a lot, but a juicy love triangle with attractive characters is a lot of fun.