The 39th episode of The Pop Poppa Nap Cast is all about gender! Read on for visual aids and references to go along with the episode.

A few of my favorite powerful female characters can be seen above. On a somewhat related note, I wrote a list here on Pop Poppa a few years back running down a list of female characters from cartoons I watched as a kid that can be good role models for our daughter.

For more information on the creepy New York Comic Con camera crew check out this story on The Beat by Heidi MacDonald.

Peep that TED Talk with Colin Stokes right here.

Here’s the Ms. Male episode of Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games clip. While talking about this video in a more general way I did gloss over the main point of this video which is that, oftentimes, female characters are just “girly” versions of their male counterparts without much more thought put into it beyond that.

If you haven’t, do yourself a favor and check out The Mary Sue. Love that site. If you’re interested in a cool video game podcast, check out Weekend Confirmed.

And, the aforementioned MovieBob video about the color pink not being the enemy:

I posted the video featuring Riley talking about color coded toys nearly two years ago.

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