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There is a version of the “strong female lead” that I am tired of. She is competent, she is cool, she does not need anyone — and she is, if we are being honest, a little boring. Strength as the absence of vulnerability is not strength. It is armour. And armour is not a personality.
The heroines that romantic fantasy is producing right now are something different. Something better.
Strength That Looks Like Something Real
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