"And good luck drawing attention to these problems; advertising a social issue by pointing out how it affects women is more likely to draw public sympathy and inspire action.
However, the trope also has subtler Unfortunate Implications for women."
Wow. Just. Wow. That's Hypocritical Humour as it's finest (even if it's true), at least if whomever wrote this noticed.
Overall a good analysis but I quibble with one point. I don't think the greater likelihood of female villain redemption is always due to the woman being seen as weak willed and under the sway of villainous men Though sometimes that is clearly the case.
More and more these days I think its because women are viewed as morally superior to men (ala Closer to Earth) so a woman pretty much always has a conscience to appeal to whereas most Complete Monsters are men.
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