Sophie joined Newsweek in 2022 from Social Change UK, and has previously written for The Untitled Magazine, The Mary Sue, Ms. Magazine ... clapping back at a troll who called her disgusting ...

It all started Monday when our sister site The Mary Sue published a piece criticizing William Shatner for making remarks that could be construed as anti-feminist. Rather than just own up to the ...

Sophie joined Newsweek in 2022 from Social Change UK, and has previously written for The Untitled Magazine, The Mary Sue, Ms. Magazine ... getting past the bridge troll who guards the podium ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. When DC Comics went on pause this spring, the company’s big character reveal went on pause, too. But now she’s here: Punchline, a new villain created by ...

Oh, Mary Sue. What a divisive term you are, my dear. Up there with the likes of the manic pixie dream girl, the Mary Sue is an archetype reserved almost exclusively for female characters.

It only took one day after the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for some fans to take issue with the film’s main protagonist. But for some people, like screenwriter Max Landis, that was a ...

Because let’s face it, Rey is kind of a Mary Sue character. (That’s fan-speak for a thinly-veiled, self-insertion character in fan fiction, usually written by someone who wants not just to be ...