Jessica Rabbit famously said, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” And it’s true. Turns out, cartoons over the last 20 years have been drawing retrograde worlds where women are barely seen, definitely not heard, and the boys do all the work. That could really give a girl the wrong idea.

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