This year, films and TV shows like Pearl and Bad Sisters are channelling female rage and questioning gendered stereotypes with their violent anti-heroines.
When, in 2017, the directorial duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel announced their plans to create a female version of Lord of the Flies, they were roundly mocked on social media. William Golding's 1954 novel famously features a group of boys who descend into barbarism after being stranded on an island. Critics of McGehee and Siegel's project argued that girls would never exhibit the same savagery in such a situation. One sneered, "What are they going to do? Collaborate to death?"
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