Peanuts

Peanuts is one of the most famous and beloved newspaper comic strips of all time. It focuses on a group of kids dealing with normal everyday challenges like school, social relationships, baseball games, and so on.

Much of Peanuts’s praise is about how human and relatable it is, even to adults. The kids' emotions and struggles are depicted with maturity and depth, and there’s a bit of Charlie Brown in all of us.

Formative Tier

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Characters I was exposed to when quite young that had significant impact on what kind of women I found attractive.

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  Peppermint Patty

  from Peanuts

  Peppermint Patty is one of Charlie Brown’s friends in Peanuts. She’s a tomboy with a strong personality who does well when pursuing her own interests (such as baseball) but struggles in more traditional and constrained environments (such as school). She has a crush on Charlie Brown and clearly carries insecurities because she doesn’t think she’s classically attractive.

  As a formative character, Peppermint Patty instilled an appreciation of tomboy characters with strong nonconformist personalities.