We're Still Stuck with "Strong Female Characters" Who Are Smug, Mean, & Reductive. "a grating tendency to write the same kind of female characters, a series of tired tropes that inevitably leave us with women who insult everyone and never betray the vulnerability that actual human beings possess"

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[–]chadwickofwv 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

That site really needs to hire an editor. The number of typos is ridiculous.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The writer is a professional paid writer.

That's the best comeback you can think of? Being a spelling nazi? That was a joke 20 years ago, it sure doesn't fly today.

[–]ShoahKahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The very fact that that nobody is a "professional, paid writer" makes it all the more mortifying that they cannot spell at a grade school level. This is what you get for lowering the bar of acceptability for the sake of the "diversity" agenda -- i.e., anti-intellectual plebes being apologisists for idiocy. Let's see how much you wish there were more "spelling Nazis" after they diversity hire pilots who crash into edifices, and electrical engineers who bring down your power grids...

[–]ID10T 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Paid, perhaps. Professional? That blog post has a lot of issues. I saw repeated paragraphs, typos, and the content lacks analysis of the subject, and ends without a conclusion.

I don't disagree with the premise. I just think it's poorly written.

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The writer really needs to proofread. There's repeated paragraphs, typos, and it feels half finished. It's a ok start to a blog post, but lacks analysis or conclusion.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Funny, I don't know any women like that.

Do you guys know any women like that?

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No way, you're not reductive.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've known a couple. They'd be really entertaining at parties as they'd end up pissing people off and getting themselves banned from future parties.

Knew one that sat around outside a karaoke party ranting on Facebook about how the patriarchal society something something kept women down or on the sidelines or something and basically everyone at the party took it as an insult, thought she was a liability to associate with, thought it was rediculous she'd rather sit outside and whine on the internet then actually come in and party. And basically after that nobody invited her to parties anymore or wanted to be friends with her. Very entertaining. It was like a slow burn of basically alienating everyone and more and more silly bullshit until finally even the most inclusive and accepting types were like nah won't bother.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I grew up in Philadelphia, which is the San Francisco of the east coast. MOST women there are like that, and on top of it, few of them are legitimately heterosexual. (They're all "bi," which is just a codeword for dykes. That city really is hell on Earth and San Fran's twin.)

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Superhero movies are mainly for men. Some women like them but it's a low %. Movies like Wonder Woman and the first Captain Marvel did well but their sequels did worse because men now know that they will suck. Look at a movie in a different genre, Barbie, a comedy, that did well with lots of women going to it but not many men. Women like romantic comedies so it's not surprising. Disney probably looked at their demographics of earlier Marvel movies and saw they were mostly men and asked how they can get more women to go to them and hence more money. Answer is they can't.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was actually thinking this today.

Superhero movies were started to be made en masse when execs decided the main cinema audience left was teenage boys (they didn't think many adult men would watch them).

Then research came out showing women choose the film 50% of the time but as no one can write a decent romantic comedy anymore they thought they could get that audience by taking what teenage boys like but filling it with women's issues.

Frozen didn't help either. The popularity of Elsa was clearly because she had super powers but she doesn't actually use them like a superhero so it doesn't mean little girls want to see themselves in superhero movies. They want their heroines to act like women and girls would.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

super hero movies are from comics and those were often young teenage boys but they become men and they still like the genre. It's also related to the whole action movie thing. Women never liked those. Saying elsa was popular due to her powers is wrong. Women love disney princess animated movies. It's ok, women and men are different, as are boys and girl children. They shouldn't try to force demographics.

[–]Clown_Chan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, that's mostly true. I'm woman and I don't and never liked superheroes in my entire life. But I don't like romantic comedies, either, tho.

If Disney want truly jew young girls and women out of their own money, then they should just continue making Disney princessess movies, not Marvel shit. They will never win over female audience with superhero movies.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah some women don't like romantic comedies, just a small percentage. And barbie had romance with Ken but it was also a funny movie with songs, women love that too. Musicals. Yeah disney could keep making movies for men and women but not if they keep forcing stuff into them, like should they force manly men and action into their disney princess movies? No I'd expect women to not like that.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I have a theory that all the woke Disney bullshit is just a long con to get people to buy into a revival of classic Disney.

I haven't even been to a movie since the lockdowns, they are that uninspiring.

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nah, it's the result of woke executives.

"Put a chick in it. Make it lame and gay."

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're probably right.

[–]Clown_Chan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Last time I was in cinema was 10 years ago.

There are much better entertaiment than movies. Especially than all that wokeshit from America.

[–]ShoahKahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Velma is White, as is Snow White, and as they forever will be.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is what happens when shitty women that even other women dislike, manage to sleep, con, and accuse their way into positions of power. You get modern Disney. Add in ESG incentives to hire these clowns and you get woke culture.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why did you link to me here?

[–]Mcheetah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Other women who dislike "Strong Female Characters" in movies/television.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, gotcha.