Badass Ladies of ‘Teen Wolf’

Photo courtesy of MTV Remote Blog.

Happy Moonday! It’s finale day! Now, I know some fans have watched the leaked midseason finale of Teen Wolf, but this is a spoiler-free (at least in this case) blog. I haven’t watched the finale and I hope everyone will be tuning in with me tonight at 10pm ET on MTV, if not already watching the all-day season three marathon.

But let’s get on with this blog post: today we’re talking about the ladies of Teen Wolf because, well, they’re pretty damn awesome. Last week we learned about Stiles’s mother, Claudia Stilinski, who we’ve all wondered about for nearly two and a half seasons. She’s a special lady: she brought us Stiles, and she’s the only member of the Stilinski family on the show to have a first name. In honor of Claudia Stilinski, I thought now would be a good time to talk about all the super-cool women on Teen Wolf. A while ago I wrote a similar post called “Badass Ladies of ‘Once Upon A Time’” because that show also has a lot of kick-ass women. I wanted to turn that post into a series because we should celebrate the great ladies of TV more, and now seems like a great time for a second installment.

Photo courtesy of MTV.

I’m sure there will be some people who disagree with me, but I think Teen Wolf is a good example of a show with complex and well-constructed female characters (I think we can all agree that they’re created with as much thought as the male characters.) Although I definitely became interested in the show because of all the–regularly shirtless–men, it’s safe to say I’ve stuck around just as much for the ladies as for the men. So I’m taking this time to celebrate those ladies. On this list I’ve only included characters who are still alive, but posthumous mentions go out to the badass ladies who are no longer with us: Kate Argent (played by Jill Wagner,) Victoria Argent (Eaddy Mays,) and Erica Reyes (Gage Golightly.) Without further ado, the badass ladies of Teen Wolf:

Badass Ladies of ‘Once Upon A Time’

Photo courtesy of ABC.

Princesses and other female protagonists in fairytales have been criticized for years for being dependent, poor role models, undeveloped characters and basically just bad for feminism. However, Once Upon A Time creates female characters in a fairytale world that are both fully developed and kick some major ass. You might argue that the show is sort of like a gender bent fairytale haven since the women are fighting (scandalous!) and saving their loved ones (outrageous!) while the men often bluster and flounder (shocking!), but it’s not. Of course, this is not to say that the men on this show are useless. Josh Dallas, Eion Bailey, Colin O’Donoghue, and Sebastian Stan provide a lot of nice eye candy and—occasionally—some plot development. Just Kidding!

In all seriousness, the entire cast of this show is fantastic and gorgeous. Once Upon A Time is an interpretation of classic fairytales where the writers take into account the fact that all characters should be fully developed people, even the women. So, I’m taking this opportunity to show my love for some of my favorite Once ladies. I should warn you, this post could probably be chalked up to a long love letter to the writers, directors and actresses who made these characters possible. And if you don’t want to read about my love for these characters, you can always check out the show and decide for yourself.