do you think youd watch or consume media with a plot like this? A “mansel in distress” is what people call it.

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I’m not a video game player, but I’d definitely watch one of these NEW films where women can FINALLY be Bad Asses! If only directors made movies like that before now!
ALIEN: Ridley (say no more) / STAR WARS: Princess Leia saves Luke and Han, in the Death Star, / EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Leia, commands the rebel alliance
TERMINATOR: Sara Connor, excellent heroine story arch. / WONDER WOMAN /
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, / ERIN BROKOVITCH, / FARGO, / HARRY POTTER (Hermione) Zoe from SERENITY, / BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER / THELMA & LOUISE
KILL BILL Vol 1 / KILL BILL Vol 2. AND literally HUNDREDS of films w/ Bad Ass Women!
Wow, I’m SO LUCKY to be young today, where FINALLY, WE can have strong representation with women in cinema to show US that we too can have superpowers, kill aliens, kill vampires, save our friends with magic, lead a rebel alliance! or Kill guys then drive off a cliff with my best friend… Just like everybody else!
by the way, My GRANDMOTHER is younger than Sigourney Weaver AND Carrie Fisher (RIP)
Yeah I would watch a movie like that. I usually don't think about it when the roles are reversed. That's really interesting. You're so imaginative with these questions you ask 🙂
Thanks lol. Figure the ladies deserve a movie like this too!
The closest thing to that scenario in a video game is Resident Evil Revelations. In the first level you play as Jill Valentine in a mission to rescue Chris Redfield who has been presumably captured on a ship, only to find out he wasn’t captured but instead got secretly sent on a separate mission.
There are actually many movies we’ve all watched where the woman rescues the man.
Manlets are always cringe worthy. Face it, throughout history the role of the man is the protector and provider saying this is not true is like saying water is not wet, leopards have no spots and gravity is a conspiracy theory. Unfortunately society has begun to blend gender roles into a thousand other renditions and we have circus freaks walking the Earth. To have a manlet in distress high up in a castle crying like a little bitch to be saved by a delicate damsel is pathetic if not comedic.
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Yeah and I like the idea. A lot of movies the man is proving his love for the woman. When the woman can prove it back? It's extra powerful if she did that because in general we are hotwired a bit differently so she'd be overcoming an extra biological hurtle for him. That would be a powerfulove indeed! ❤️
I usually play a female character if it's available, like in Resident Evil 2. But to be transparent it's mostly motivated by: If I'm going to spend hours looking at a backside, I prefer that backside to be female. It's just a more pleasing form.
I honestly never picked a game for the plot or the story... lol
which is why I even played as an alcoholic squirrel going to Normandy to be all kinds of FTW and incorrect...
by the way, did you ever play a game for Dreamcast called Urban Chaos... that's one game I didn't finish and I've never looked up the ending, it's a female lead one
Games? That is really hard question, if it is immersive game where you role play to some degree... no I will mostly not play that game. Is it without it? Yes I would - Take Dishonored 2, you can play as woman, it is good game and there are so many of them.
Movies? I do not care. I watched many that were like that and even if most of them are not as good as man rescuing woman, I do not care about the sex of those actors.
Kind of boring. I mean I've seen the whole storyline countless times.
Why can't I just watch a show about a man who's submissive to his wife. Sounds better. And still meets what you're looking for.
Saving him many times in a day by reminding him not to forget soccer practice errands and doing house chores. What a heroic woman to constantly belittle and remind her husband 😃
@Still-alive come on buddy, admit it, my answer was epic 😁😁😁
Who wouldn't watch a show like that. Totally fits the era and the social narrative of the times 🙄🙄👏
I mean! You can do it in many many games now days, specially where you can create your own character. Moab, RPG, FPS and many other games you have the choice between few characters where there is females too.
It depends whats built around that generic plot, the game mechanics, the genre, ...
Just "switching" the sexes of that stereotypical damsel in distress wouldn't be enough for an interesting game.
Meh, enchanted movie by disney has the main character giselle rescue the dude at the end XD
Long as it makes sense for the plot and such, cool!
Well I don't play video games but if the movie is good and it isn't over the top or stupid I would watch it.
My Super Ex Girlfriend.
X Men
Avengers
All have women super heroes that help and save women, children and men.
If she is a normal person it would be highly unbelievable and not enjoyable. If she had superpowers like Buffy the Vampire Slayer so it could be believable in that made up setting then it could be enjoyable.
It's been done. The original movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
It didn't work then because of how they were forced to play it. If it had been done the way the series was then it's likely the TV show wouldn't have happened
Assassins Creed Odyssey and Valhalla I play as a girl.
There are a few others as well where it’s a girl.
Tomb Raider is a good example for game and movie.
If it’s a good game, yes. If it’s a bad game, no. Who’s saving who, I don’t care at the end of the day, they’re just computer images lol.
Yes I would have no problem with a video game or a movie like that. In fact I think it would be interesting and different.
Nikita is exactly like that. Nothing evil in a woman rescuing a man.
The bible refers to it as a new thing in Jer31:22. And the new is always better than the old.
I'd play that game.
Metroid ftw
Yeah I’d totally play a game like that if the gameplay itself is good. If the story is fun and engaging it’s even better!
YESSSS my favorite show strong girl bong soon is like that I love it so much 🥺
K drama? Lol
Yes it’s about a girl with strong superpowers and she becomes a body guard for the guy lol
Tbh I don't feel like it would be as exotic.. So probably not
You can’t imagine maybe Angelina Jolie saving Brad Pitts ass or something like that?
So whats wrong with that?
Scully was always saving Mulder’s butt and XFiles was brilliant.
Rather take a nap or take a bicycle ride on my own than doing any of those choices.
Why?
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