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- Herausgeber: The History Press
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Lady Sidekick has gathered up all the tired tropes for women so you don't have to! From the Femme Fatale to the Crazy Cat Lady, the Bridezilla to the Girl Next Door, it calls them out and, most importantly, RECLAIMS them. For too long women have been pigeonholed into a handful of tired and basic characters, their personality and behaviour criticised if they don't fit the role society thinks they should be playing. Lady Sidekick analyses fifty of the most moth-eaten, antiquated, cookie-cutter females clichés, archetypes and tokens that twenty-first-century women are SO over. Through hilarious breakdowns, comic illustrations and tongue-firmly-in-cheek-fuelled study, it slow-roasts each trope, sprinkling them with sarcasm, seasoning them with feminism, infusing them with activism, before serving them up ready for the modern masses to enjoy. It's time to shove a stick of dynamite up the arse of the out-of-date – and Lady Sidekick is ready to light the wick. Happy trope-spotting!
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Anneka Harry is a writer and performer whose work covers series, episodes and features for the likes of the BBC, Channel 4, ITV2, Radio 4, Stylist and Grazia. Her first book Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers and Game-Changers was published by Little A in 2020.
First published 2020
The History Press
97 St George’s Place, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, GL50 3QB
www.thehistorypress.co.uk
© Anneka Harry, 2020
The right of Anneka Harry to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the Publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978 0 7509 9636 5
Typesetting and origination by The History Press
Printed in Turkey by Imak
eBook converted by Geethik Technologies
CONTENTS
Introduction
The Tropes
The Beautiful All Along Babe
The Bimbo
The Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Bridezilla
The Butch Lesbian
The Cat Lady
The Clumsy Cosplay Otaku Girl
The Damsel In Distress
The Deadpan Snarker
The Decorative Bollywood Boo
The Disabled Love Interest
The Disturbed Child
The Eastern European Cleaner
The English Rose
The Exotic Fantasy
The Fat Girl
The Fembot
The Femme Fatale
The Final Girl
The Fish Out Of Water
The Fit Amazonian With The Sword
The Funny BFF
The Girl Next Door
The Good Girl Gone Bad
The Gorgeous Glutton
The Granola Girl
The Happy Housewife
The Hardened Detective
The Hot Scientist
The Iron Lady
The Lipstick Lesbian
The Manic Pixie Dreamgirl
The Mistress
The Murderous Bisexual
The Muslim Terrorist
The Mute
The Mystical Waif
The Naked And Nameless Corpse
The Nollywood Housewife
The Party Girl
The Racist Grandma
The Russian Villain
The Sassy Black Woman
The Spicy Latina
The Struggling Single Mum
The Token Asian Friend
The Tomboy
The Trans Sex Worker
The Virgin
The Whore
INTRODUCTION
The gender inequality on our screens and across popular culture is so grim it’s sporting a hooded cloak and clutching a scythe. Women and girls are a mega-ton more than the 2D versions we constantly see portrayed and its ripple effect has got us wading through misogyny-flavoured treacle (if you think that sounds in the least bit appetising, you’re a stonking great bazonga-gawking sexist – away with ya!).
We need less censorship of female behaviour. We need more women and we need raw women. We need not for personalities to be depicted by skin or hair colour alone. We need for women to stop being used as props or reduced to slabs. We need to say buh-bye to binaries, to mythical beauty standards and to being ‘nice’. We need plots that don’t revolve solely around women’s rape, exploitation and/or death. We need women to no longer be outnumbered by penises or have been written only to have one symbolically, or in actuality, thrust toward her. We need to go back to basics and bust apart the dead horse female character tropes the industry is still tirelessly trotting out and incessantly flogging. It goes without saying that male tropes suck too, but the majority have had guys feeling like they can unremittingly swing stuff their way since forever ago (and just look where that’s got us). Sadly, there’s a batrillion more from whence these came and new tropes are rearing their repellent heads on a daily basis.
Lady Sidekick has been created with a mind to elevate and disrupt; I hope you are compelled to rip out, laminate, frame or take a highlighter to every page (and you may find that it pairs very nicely with an industrial vat of wine). The case studies are twisted and oversimplified representations because tropes are meant to depower and dehumanise women. If any of the language, terminology or illustrations doth offend, spike your blood pressure or ruin your enjoyment of this book, then please remember that it’s sort of the point…
Until we can laugh at the mess we’re in, we’ll never get out of it.
This book is dedicated to my Knight in Shining Armour, Lizzie Brown.
Thank you to my gang of Lauras for making this happen, with special mention to my (non-tropey) Funny BFF, Laura Dockrill. You’ve brought these women to life and you bring pure joy to mine. Long may we raise and save each other.
I would also like to acknowledge myself (so sue me). I wrote Lady Sidekick in the midst of all manner of personal and global life-changing madness. It will forever remind me of my own hero-character strength. Reader, I hope you know yours.
THETROPES
THE BEAUTIFUL ALL ALONG BABE
How did we not notice that behind the orthodontic headgear, the world’s most bangable woman was patiently awaiting a glow-up and rhetoric rebrand? We had an inkling her interest in everything other than being an object must have been a cover-up. We feel so silly now!
‘She’s never been kissed because she reads … but THE BEAUTIFUL ALL ALONG BABE’s juice was always slyly worth the squeeze!’
(Just cut to the bit where she washes her hair and gets laser eye surgery. Save yourself two hours.)
THE BIMBO
On Wednesdays she wears pink (and on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays). She’s stupid but stunning and her Daddy’s rich. Now, somebody find her a gorgey-gorge’ guy to adore, quick! (Before she starts talking and ruining the view.)
@the_girl_next_door wow hunni bunni so beaut
@partygirlofficial YAAS BISH! Werk it! #WeNeedToGoDancing #ShotsSoon
@footiefreddie daaaamn girl
@garygunsandgains 12/10
@beerzandbirdz
@jackthelad69
