required some writers – all of whom are male – to invent narrative and characterisation to make it all hang together. They had to literally make it up – to conjure it from the depths of their imaginations, and weave it all through the central concept to make a coherent story. So, hey, while you’re making stuff up, how about creating a fantastical land where females don’t simply exist to procreate and facilitate?

How about making something up that doesn’t whisper in the ear of every young, malleable boy in the audience that they are the centre of all things, while girls are disposable distractions whose presence must be endured with a roll of the eyes? How about making something up that doesn’t whisper in the ear of every young, malleable girl in the audience that her only...

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