Strong Female Leads Aren’t Just “One of the Guys”

We’ve talked before about how Lorelai is “not like the other girls” and embodies the “cool girl” trope. You know the trope: yes she’s feminine, but she drives a Jeep and eats Pizza and drinks beer from a bottle. She swears, but not in an aggressive way, and she isn’t shy about sex.

There’s another female lead trope out there, and Gilmore Girls flirts with it briefly, and it’s strongly related to the Cool Girl trope

The Strong Female Lead, the female who embodies stereotypically male characteristics, but instead of the…