Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #244: Atalanta
There's been an effort in recent popular culture to create strong female characters (or, somewhat less inventively, to reimagine established male characters as female). The argument, not without merit, points to a paucity of independent, well-drawn young heroines in literature and cinema. Certainly that's been true historically, and recent efforts to close the gap have touched off resistance from traditionally male producers and consumers of fantasy, science fiction, or comic
