the walking dead season 7 the go getters

It’s probably no coincidence that Alexandria, the latest and best appointed of the havens that Rick’s group has encountered, was established by Deanna, a woman who turned out to be a much fairer and wiser leader than any of the male leaders that the group has run into, with the possible exception of Ezekiel. Even Paula, the Savior who captured and nearly killed Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Carol in season six, gained our respect-and a soul-sister acknowledgement from Carol-for her focused ferocity after we learned that she had been a mousy, abused secretary in the pre-walker world who seized on the apocalypse as her chance to stop eating so much as one more morsel of paternalistic shit, even from her own men.

Some of the best fighters and most strategic thinkers in Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) gender-neutral meritocracy have always been women, and they were usually toughened up by the kinds of trials that all too often turn women into skilled survivors, like the spousal abuse Carol endured or the loss of an adored child that galvanized Michonne (Danai Gurira), a somewhat passive and subordinate housewife, into becoming a latter-day ninja. One of the things that has kept me loyal to The Walking Dead over the years is its matter-of-fact feminism.

The walking dead season 7 the go getters