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When I think "female ass-kicker," Bethany Sloane is not the first person who comes to mind. She's not physically as strong as Buffy Summers অথবা River Tam. She's not intellectually as strong as Temperence Brennan অথবা Hermione Granger. She's just a normal, lapsed Catholic who works at an abortion clinic.

In fact, the only thing that makes Bethany Sloane even the least bit extraordinary is the fact that she is the last blood relative of যীশু Christ.

That, in itself, shouldn't qualify her for membership in the "strong women" club. A person's lineage and situation doesn't...

I have realized in my life that there aren't that many hard-core female gamers out there. I wouldn't even describe myself as a hardcore gamer, although I might come close. Regardless, a feminist can't help but appreciate the steps the video game world has taken in order to elevate the status of women. And some may argue that, since the target audience of video games is men, the fact that women are portrayed with brains AND brawn in them is twice as progressive as the portrayal of tough women in চলচ্চিত্র and television, whose gender audience is often বিভক্ত করা down the middle, অথবা targeted at women....

I recently finished a প্রদর্শনী called Strange Empire, and I'm not really sure how I felt about it. The following rambling trying to disguise itself as a review is my attempt at sorting out my feelings.

I was in the middle of iconning a Western-ish series and needed background noise (something to half-watch while I edited stuff). I'd already gone through all the Western চলচ্চিত্র Netflix had that interested me, so I decided to start a প্রদর্শনী called Strange Empire that had been on my watch-this-eventually তালিকা for ages. It fit my Western requirement, looked like it was about badass women, so why not?

It's......