After Sophie Gilbert

Unlikable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

Sophie Gilbert showed you how pop culture weaponizes women against each other—now go deeper. If you craved that fearless takedown of rom-com mean girls and reality TV rivalry factories, you need the book that excavates every archetype designed to make ambitious, angry, or complicated women unbearable. It's the same no-sacred-cows energy, the same cathartic fury, with zero empowerment fluff.