I know links aren’t the greatest content, but Thursdays are the day I tend to drag the most and there’s been a lot of great conversations going on out there this week.

• Why Strong Female Characters are Bad for Women
• Jim Hines chimes in on the above article
• Michael Knost on True Professionals
• Is there a double standard in romance? (Gender roles and identity are a fascinating topic)
• Writers’ Block, or Writers’ Avoidance?
• SFX magazine says the lack of female horror writers in their recent Horror spotlight issue isn’t its fault (they just didn’t try very hard, and also women aren’t horror fans anyway)
• Baby Starves to Death while parent play a virtual baby raising game (Proving this isn’t an American/laziness problem. The internet should be about connecting people, not isolating them. Anything else is a sign of a problem with the person, not with the ‘net.)
• A 101 year old woman grows a horn