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 agree with you, I think that issue can be handled if they make her a great martial arts fighter.
But she can’t just magically know it, there has to be a reason why she knows how to fight, but that applies to men too.
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Can’t help but feel like you’re mansplaining how women are underrepresented and that your favorite female led shows and movies should be more appreciated and men are cancers.
It really is very simple. Well written shows and movies do well. Good actors/actresses make a well written movie better. It doesn’t matter if it’s men and women. I’m no expert but the majority of female led movies are poorly written and the actresses act bad but that may be because of the writing. That also doesn’t mean there aren’t good female movies that do well.
Where much of this marketing goes wrong is the studios try to take something that’s male led and change it to be female led. That will obviously not go well for an audience that preferred the male led material.
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I’m male, I’ve never complained about this. I think it’s not good to generalize everyone
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the majority of female led movies are poorly written and the actresses act bad
You were doing so well
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I'm a woman. Yeah it's bothered me my whole life. I used to be really angry about it. Now I just accept it as the status quo. In the last few paragraphs of your post you are basically describing the Smurfette Principle, Two Girls to a Team,and other tropes. Also the Bechdel test.
I heartily recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1 is rough, but it's got good gender equality.
Nowadays though, you get a lot more racial diversity on western TV than you used to. I think that's something which has improved quite a lot.
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I get you and sure some themes hit harder than others. I myself no kids etc thought pet sematary was an ok book and I have read many comments saying it hits harder being a parent/father.
But there is a difference between: will we get the male perspective and I am not interested in the plot of a female one. Therefore devaluing it.
In a radio show introducing an entertainment to your audience, giving a platform to an author and then being dismissive feels so stupid.
I am especially enjoyed since it was on air in the youth centre. Boys and man constantly use girl and woman and anything related to it as insult. (And obviously gay, which is my personal journey to remind everyone that it is not an insult.) Just selecting a female team in FIFA was nearly too much to ask.
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Yeah well I wasn’t there, so just going by your post and pitched in to say that it’s a valid question in general: how is this book relevant for me? If asked in good faith, the author I suppose can see it as an opportunity to explain for example why that woman’s story can be interesting to a male audience. Maybe even school the interviewer if so inclined.
I just feel like we should sometimes check our feminist impulses and recognize that some questions are valid, even when we may suspect that they come from a bad place.
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Yeah, fair point. I've got to watch Dollhouse and Firefly eventually.
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Charlize, not Anya.
And I read a lot of complaints about a woman leading a movie called Mad Max.
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Dollhouse is 7/10, The Nevers 6/10, Firefly 9/10. (Stars.)
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I'm doing Orphan Black and Severance right now, but I'll probably go Firefly then Dollhouse. (Part of what made me think of Dollhouse is the fact that Dichen Lachman is in Severance!) The Nevers is also on my watchlist, apparently, so I might or might not get to that later.