Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Difference between revisions

True equality, which is near the center of the scale, is rare. The edges are taken by positions where the opposite sex doesn't exist, or exists in only a contemptible form. Note that Level 1 is not the exact reverse of Level 9, as there are far fewer works in which the writer simply fails to include male characters, or in which a setting is intentionally created as a female-free paradise.<ref>The ''[[Lexx]]'' episode "Nook" features a "monastic paradise" of male-only clones who believed that they could only have true harmony in a world without women. There are a few other all-male groups in other works as well.</ref>

 

 

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* The stories of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]: there are virtually no female characters across such a vast body of work. Only one of his seventy-plus stories has a female protagonist.

* ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'', chronicling the adventures of the students from an all-boys school.

* ''[[Foundation]]'' by [[Isaac Asimov]]. Later books in the series have female characters, including a female protagonist in ''Second Foundation''.

* ''[[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''. The original story had practically no women aside from the unnamed witness who saw Mr. Hyde commit a murder. A huge difference from most, if not all adaptations, which usually tack in a [[Love Interest]] for Dr. Jekyll.