Feminist themes are trendy right now in pop culture. Frequently, they’re laid out in broad strokes with easy heroes and easy (sexist) villains, in movies as diverse as Frozen and Mad Max: Fury Road. I enjoy a fantasy of girl power conquering menacing patriarchal creeps as much as the next gal. But I was also refreshed by Inside Out’s subtle, villain-free narrative about a girl overcoming some pernicious but subtle gender training to find a truer version of herself.