In another similar compilation there are actually more quotes from fictional male characters in TV programmes such as House of Cards and Yes Minister than from real women politicians.
Fictional male detectives in the past have often been robust figures of competence, standing at the centre of the plot, from where they make sense of the incomprehensible, turn chaos into order, join up the clues to find the criminal, restore normality.
Witchsy is a great new artist-made goods site started by two great gals and a third fictional male business partner (created to lend ironic patriarchal credibility to the project).
Like so many fictional American males, Henry finds shelter in sarcasm as he waits for his world to disintegrate.
The writing of a fictional White male character who is a hero to a particular slice of advocate culture in this country as racist is unacceptable.
I realise now that I wanted my heroine to share the same kind of spy's life that many fictional spies have, male and female.
A Harvard University researcher sent two fictional CVs for male college students to more than 1,700 entry-level, white collar job postings, one showing experience with a gay organisation and the other listing instead participation in a socialist group.
In the same way, David Foster Wallace blasted Norman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth as "Great Male Narcissists"; a couple of years later, he published "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men," his own fictional inquiry into pathological male narcissism.
He had to apologise to children listening to the 1986 Christmas special after describing Father Christmas as "male and fictional".
A follow-up study in 2013 by US organisation Name It Change It presented 1,500 likely voters with the media profiles of two fictional political candidates, one male and one female.
