I personally dislike the token-anything character. Be it the mandatory ethnicity mix, gay person, alternate religion, nerd and so on. Or of course the femald character who's defining trait is that she is female.
By all means include these characters but not as a checkbox for inclusivity. Being inclusive does not demand that everyone is always represented. And if we do choose to represent everyone, don't make that singular trait their gimmick. I don't need some director to shove it down my throat that they are being inclusive to the lgbtq community. Its cool that they are, but needing to remind people of it is awkward.
Similarly it is cool that we have female leads in James Bond-esque movies. But it doesn't need to be Agent 007 Jackie Bonds. Take a character like Lara Croft. Well established and highly successful.
Also while this might not be on topic, too many female characters are bland, boring and one-dimensional in movies. Male characters? They pretty much always have a thing. It might be funny, smart, sassy, you name it. Might be good, might be bad but there is something extra to it. Not sure if we should blame women for this or men. I have seen the mix of characters in the typical romantic fantasy novel, CYOA and alike that caters to women. Meaning absolutely no offense but cardboard has more personality than that. Real women certainly do too.
It's just funny to me that whenever one of these movies totally bombs, they blame it on men and sexism, and it's like, "Really? Is that why Terminator 2 also bombed? Is that why Alien bombed? Is that why Kill Bill bombed? Because nobody likes female leads in action movies?"
And just think, all the way back in the ultra-sexist 1950's, 40's, and 30's, they had female leads in action movies that were wildly popular back then too. Maureen O'Hara starred in several swashbuckling films where she swashbuckled right along with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Powers.
So it's really funny to me how they blame sexist male audiences for the female ghostbusters film being box office poison.
Everybody always liked Tomboy girls just fine until you started making them all into man-hating lesbians and trannies. Hmmm.
I hate when they change source material to a different race or genderbend it. I have no problem with female leads, it's just annoying when they're only there to prove their "male counterparts" wrong and belittle them. This takes away from the plotline. Like literally the only reason why a lot of these movie creators add female leads is because of the sole purpose of political agenda. I can think of a couple female characters that I enjoyed that weren't there for some female empowerment agenda. I think there are few lead characters that were fantastic in giving good female leads... a few examples I could give are a lot of the Molly Ringwald characters from the 80s, I'm also thinking of Winona Ryder in movies like Beetlejuice & Edward Scissorhands, and I'm thinking of Christina Ricci in Casper & Addams Family. All of these women portrayed people in movies that I didn't even think of as political... and that's why I loved them. The purpose of a movie for me is to distract oneself from the politics of external factors and lately... it's just not that.
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Ah, tokenism. Because it worked so well for black people, didn't it? I will never understand the mentality that says you can only relate to people who look like you.
I'm even confused by the idea that a particular group needs more representation, but to do that, you just make one-note characters whose only attribute is their gender/sexuality/etc. "Woman" is not a personality. Buffy, Xena, and Sarah Connor were all interesting, complex characters. So was Ellen Ripley, who's made all the more interesting because every part in Alien was written to be gender-neutral. Gender-swapping is just a cheap gimmick to score political points.
It reminds me of how parents do things to make children feel important, even though it's all manufactured and all the adults know why it's happening. It really goes against the whole idea of treating women as equals. When we constantly coddle women and go out of our way to try to make them feel important, we are not treating them as equals. In the end it just undermines respect for females.
At that point it’s just politics and politics are garbage. Female leads? Good. Forced female leads to further a bogus agenda? Bad.
I think so. Like token women just for the sake of having women. A lot of times ending up as Mary Sue characters.
I hate it and I avoid shows which are woke. They present a completely unnatural image of females and it breaks the believability of the show
but isn't that the point
don't women want a chance to ya know, be the lead, for once?
tbh, I think this tv drama shit is a waste of time and energy for the human race. People going out of their way to do shit like this is in their art is creepy and should be viewed with suspicion, and that's it.
Don't care
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