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 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
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Indeed. But that was done in the 80s,he was trained by Yoda for a few weeks before confronting Vader. And when he did confront Vader I wouldn't really call the fight impressive. He wasn't holding up an entire rockslide, which Rey did with ease after Luke basically neglected her.
Also in 9, when Luke has even more training, he kills a Rankor with only a rock and good tactics. He does like a cool jump. That's it.
He's not accidently shooting force lightning, a high level dark force technique not even dark Vader, a force genius, could figure out how to do.
You also have to remember, Luke (and Leia, before Disney retconed) are literally born from the force (or at least their dad is) is chosen by prophecy. If there is any characters who should be OP in starwars it's those three.
Rey is stronger than all of these characters just because. Lazy.
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As a native speaker yeah though depending on where I am I may assume a non native speaker because it's an irregular adjective-noun pairing and I know that's the sort of thing that trips people up
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It was good, had a vibe that very few other shows did.
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Yes, but not like that
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First, you’re generalizing males. It comes off as you asking this question rhetorically and in bad faith.
Second, you do realize that movies are for entertainment purposes, right? How many non-activists do you know who watch movies with the mindset of caring which gender is dominating in lead roles or whatever?
I’m a male and I prefer to keep politics out of my escapism, thank you very much.
I could say there are plenty of movies I enjoy that have female lead roles. I could say that there are also movies with female lead roles that I didn’t enjoy. But in the end, would you even care? It’s clear with your post that you’re not really asking anything and just wanted to make a political rant.
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The avatar bit is kinda funny because, if anything, between Ang and Korra, I (male) find Korra more relatable. Their ages had a bigger impact on that than their genders.
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I'm a woman, and what bothers me is when the woman is not believable in that role. Men are generally stronger than women -- that's just a fact. But some women are exceptionally strong and trained in combat. If you're going to cast someone in a role that's supposed to show us a strong woman, then for fuck's sake, she'd better be a strong woman, not a gorgeous woman who just looks great in a tank top and a sheen of sweat. It's obvious she would be easily overpowered by any of her male opponents, but we're supposed to believe that she's kicking all their asses.
Someone else suggested Alien would be accused of wokeness had it been released today. I don't think so. Ripley was just a regular, somewhat fit woman, and the things she did were believable for someone with her physique and level of training. That's why that movie works.
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It is damn tin-eared to affix "she" to a female superhero's name. Or "black" to a black superhero's name.
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You should probably delve that particular line of thought more deeply, tbh.
I know you meant this flippantly but I came out as nonbinary last year; having (especially white) men act like entitled toddlers online was a helpful push into embracing more femininity.
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I'm man and one of my favorite type of stories are historical stories with women who defy the gender roles of their time.
Also in general historical stories from perspective of someone else than white guys.
I find them empowering even though they are not about my empowerment.
Also I just find the stories more interesting than watching just another historical war movie with almost all men except main characters wife at home or smth.Although there is this "girlboss" archetype I see in movies I really hate. Kind of one that feels like a committee wrote feminist character because it sells.
Well we are likely to see less of those with all the anti DEI stuff, so I guess monkey paw wish came true.
