Why do males complain about female-led stories or too many female characters when the majority are still dominated by males?
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I think the doctor regenerating into a woman for no reason is fine-- timelords change when they regenerate, after all. There shouldn't need to be a reason to regenerate into a woman, like there shouldn't need to be a reason to regenerate into someone with different types of hair.
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Forced diversity characters are generally just cringe.
Characters who are normal people who just happen to be female, of a minority ethnicity, non-heterosexual and so on are generally as good as all other characters because that's just about people living live in an imaginary situation so just like in the real world not everybody there is a white heterosexual male and people who aren't white heterosexual males are, just like the white heterosexual males, not some stereotyped cartoon cutout of a person.
(That said, in Action movies, especially XX century, often all characters are stereotyped cartoon cutouts of a person)
This also dovetails with how Modern Acting techniques work: good actors will naturally play more believable characters in more believable situations because the actor also has their own version of "suspension of disbelief" going on.
If you want a neutral metaphor, it's like the difference between seeing a scene in a Film or TV Series which is pretty obviously product placement for a cola brand were one or more of the characters are using said product in a way that makes sure its brand is seen and mentioned vs a perfectly normal scene were somebody just happens to be drinking something that looks like a cola - the entire vibe is totally different between having something which is not a natural story element shoved there to fulfill objectives other than telling a good story and just telling a good story that naturally reflects the real world in its many facets hence all that's there just feels natural.
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Why do men complain?
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Must not be an anime fan.
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100% factually accurate and yet still devastating to hear.
25 years...I can almost hear the modem whining like it was yesterday.
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Being a woman is "marked" while being a man is just the default, so anything that strays from the "default" sticks out and it seems reasonable that it requires justification. This goes in reverse in some cases, like the need to refer to someone as a "male nurse" - why do we feel we need to say this? Because the default nurse is assumed to be female.
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It's more explicit in the directors cut when you learn of her own daughter's fate.
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Because they are assholes.
Because they are so privileged they REALLY believe that they should see themselves in all stories.
Because they were taught from a young age that empathy is not manly.
Because, at the end of the day they were failed by their parents and society as a whole.
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It was a change to satisfy something outside of the world they were in--to satisfy a check box in our world. It is just an example of badly handled "add women" to a plot.
I do agree many genres are under represented by women as main role or important roles, and I totally enjoy stuff that is different that the Hollywood Schlock that gets produced. But it should be true women characters and stories not just a cut and paste role.
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There are probably a decent amount of people who will just not watch a female lead
They probably would, if she acts like a man.
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Furiosa irritated the hell out of many men with a wounded pride.
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Those movies work because the female leads are just good.
The usual suspects whined about Furiosa, precisely because as you say the movie was about her.
The selling point isn't that they have women in them, the selling point is they are really really good movies.
Yeah, but whiners whined anyway.
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Isn't that the problem though? Pandering by creating overly masculine women doing things that men traditionally do?
Idk, maybe I'm over simplifying it - but I've known a decent amount of sexists that love Alien. I don't think she was overly masculine, nor do I think her role was overly masculine. Idk.
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Because men are babies.
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I’ve known women who won’t watch something or play a video game without a female lead or the ability to create a female character, so I assume the same has to be true for men.
I've seen women express confusion or even anger that the men in their lives choose to play as female characters in games, I don't think I've seen the reverse.
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Ripley was... neuter enough in Alien and Mama Rambo in Aliens. I'm sure the whiners hate the cutesy scenes with Newt and love the Queen Fight.
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Not particularly. Whedon's work in particular caters to his particular fetish, small women kicking ass. Compare Buffy, Dollhouse, Firefly, The Nevers.
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Asimov is so, so difficult to read through now that I'm older, as the female characters are just... ouch.
Case in point: Noys Lambent in The End of Eternity. She was added by editor mandate, and she's hollow: a kept woman who's secretly a perfid ally of an opposing faction. The hero is somewhat redeemed by his understanding that the rebel cause is just, but she's pure cardboard and eye candy. 13 y.o. me loved her. Years later... She's cringeworthy.
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I don't know if it's because i'm not a native speaker, but i consider people who use "male" and especially "female" instead of "men" or "women" very very weird at best.
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Yup, poorly paraphrasing a well know quote: When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression
