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Women on TV are not all spirited and spunky like Jess from New Girl. Female characters are ditching traditional females roles to play angry, selfish, and very unlikeable, like devious Cersei Lannister from The Game of Thrones or filterless Fleabag. The new female antihero is a sign of how much television has changed say professors Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman. They explain why the rise of strong, although sometimes evil norm-defying female protagonists on prime-time television is a good thing for women everywhere .
