x"One of the things I mentioned […] was the idea of what I called ‘negative reinvention.’ Where a person deliberately chooses to read a female character in such a way as to justify her/his dislike of the character. In the absence of the female POV, we’re constantly forced to rearrange bits of the narrative in our heads for them to give them motivation that the narrative didn’t care to explore. And I think how we do that, in large part, indicates how we feel about female characters in general."
— prozacpark, Reading Against Intent: Women in fiction, authorial intent, and negative reinvention