#YEAH!! I DON'T WRITE PSYCHO BITCHES I WRITE WOMEN WHO ARE THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND STILL AWFUL!!

[crimeronan]

"For me, [feminism is] the ability to have women who are bad characters … the one thing that really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing. In literature, they can be dismissably bad – trampy, vampy, bitchy types – but there's still a big pushback against the idea that women can be just pragmatically evil, bad and selfish ... I don't write psycho bitches. The psycho bitch is just crazy – she has no motive, and so she's a dismissible person because of her psycho-bitchiness [...]

Isn't it time to acknowledge the ugly side [of femininity]? I've grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains."

-Gillian Flynn in a 2013 interview, discussing why both her flawed messy protagonists and vicious antagonists are typically women, and why that has made some critics very very angry.