Sexism, mostly. That, and lazy writing, which thinks the only way to make women look good is to make men look bad.
As though, say, Mara Jade became more impressive by making Luke Skywalker (and later, Kyle Katarn) suck. I shudder to think what Disney's going to do when they get around to her.
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That trope has been a thing a lot longer than most people realize, but in modern movies, it's largely because the writers do not know how to actually make strong (or good) female characters, so they make weak and stupid male characters to elevate their main protagonist.
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No idea, but if it's a movie made for women then of course they're going to be made to look better than men. There's no point in being intimidated by it though. It's only a movie!
Because those movies are created and/or motivated by feminists, and that's just what feminists do.
To feminists, gender issues are a zero sum game.
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