Girl power: Finding my inner-Buffy

Over the last couple of years, my interest has increasingly become more and more focused on strong female characters or protagonists (sometimes even the antagonist). I cannot pinpoint when this interest or rather focus on femininity in fandom and popular culture began or rather became significant/apparent, but I can trace it back to at least 2010. However, when I think back, the interest of the female characters has always been there in all my fandoms, but they have sort of been lurking in the background.