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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This isn't an excuse for the difference, but I wonder how exposure bias played into their perception. If a person was more accustomed to men in a specific situation and a woman "surprised them" by being involved, it could lead to time passing being perceived as longer. It would be similar to how any new experience is often perceived as taking longer than a familiar one in the same time period. Underrepresentation of women in that scenario would support it.
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I've had excellent and poor women leaders. The difference with a poor male leader, I could argue with them head-to-head, no harm no foul. But with a poor female leader, if I argue head-to-head I'm suddenly hurting their feelings or being misogynistic.
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I remember I was watching the show Batwoman or Batgirl or whatever it's called, and all of a sudden they just replaced the lead character with a black women. Like wtf happened there, literally just yoinker her and replaced her.
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Why do males complain about female-led stories
They don't? Or are you taking 4chan and Twitter as representative of the whole videogame audience?
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A couple of month ago I was volunteering in my youth centre. We always have the radio on. On air was an interview of a female author writing about a woman and her struggles as a mom and wife, falling for another man. The male interviewer had the audacity to ask if there are any themes in the book which could interest him as a male reader (imagine a very condescending tone).
Reducing “female” themes to lesser themes is so annoying, hurtful and stupid.
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It's a wild world.
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Eh, the character was written as "Ripley", sex unspecified. IIRC none of the characters had their gender written into the screenplay and it was intentional.
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Have you read A Memory Called Empire yet? It's amazing.
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This is just making excuses for poor writing. You can make powerful characters but yiu need justification. That's why ppl didn't like Rey. She had very little justification for her power, plus she completely eclipsed the storm trooper rebel plot which was actually interesting.
It's especially bad when yiu use excuses like what she hulk did. I mean most ppl aren't going to appreciate a misandrist rant towards any character in a movie or series. Putting one in an MCU movie feels like genuine bait.
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Welcome to feminist media analysis. It's an existing academic field and you can find books and YouTube videos on it (and it can go pretty deep into related topics).
One of my favorite examples was when the creators of Avatar the Last Airbender were deciding to create their sequel about the next avatar they decided to make their protagonist a woman and executives at nickelodeon complained that boys wouldn't be able to relate to a female protagonist.
The explanation I've largely heard that makes sense to me is that women are taught women are generally expected to learn to empathathize with male protagonists whereas the inverse is much more optional. You have plenty of men who do get into wonder woman and she ra and korra, my childhood best friends are among them, but you also get a lot of men who don't in a way where I can't think of an inverse that I've seen
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I don't know understand how the genders of the lead characters is important in any way. It's not as if the films were about the genders of the characters.
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Man Lower Decks was fucking awsome. Loved it!
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I mean, it's just shorter than saying "women and girls" and "men and boys" if all female and male persons are the subject, not just adults
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This is very interesting! Thanks
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If alien came out nowadays, people would complain it was woke.
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I personally think Ms Marvel is the best disney+ marvel show and I'm a white guy.
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All YA books for a while targetted woman, boys get progression novels and litrpgs, but those didnt show up on book stores
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Do you mean Twitch and YouTube? The biggest gaming content platforms where the largest accounts do complain about women being in movies/games quite a lot?
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Now I know this isn't a new observation or anything and I never watched episode 9, but in 7 and 8 Rey felt like just as much of a Mary Sue as Luke did in the ot. Now the well worn observation is that Luke Skywalker is like, the textbook Marty Stu.
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Are you talking about Furiosa the spinoff movie or Furiosa in Mad Max? I have never heard a single complaint about Furiosa in Mad Max
