Why does media keep telling woman they have no heros?

[MLGbreezy]

Something I never understood from feminism in today’s society is the notion that girls don’t have any quote in quote strong female characters on tv. And the ones we do have are written poorly or just there for eye candy at most. I always found this stupid I feel like growing up especially for kids tv we had plenty of strong women characters there were a lot of shows featuring girls even many that I know a lot of boys watched. Winx club was a show me and my brothers watched religiously growing up a show about teenage fairy girls fighting other girls I dunno why we lived it so much but we did. Another show was the show Totally spies on Cartoon Network three main female leads kinking ass as spies all while looking good fully clothed. Another big one the power puff girls who doesn’t know the power puffs three bad ass little girls with super powers who can destroy city blocks and can fly across the planet so fast that it’s nothing. Or the life and times of juniper lee another great Cartoon Network show that’s criminally underrated. Do I even need to get started on Disney channel at one point they were know to be a channel that catered more towards girls and guys still watched it. Lizzie McGuire., the Cheetah girls , Hannah Montana, The Wizards of Waverly place with Selena Gomez, Kim possible, Lilo and Stitch. Not to mention the Disney princess and there spin offs. Many of those girls leading or main characters of popular shows and they weren’t popular cause of sex appeal doesn’t mean guys didn’t still find them hot. You didn’t know you could make girls attractive without flashing some tits who would’ve thought but yeah that was just my generation I don’t get all the complaining. Is it a bunch of hot air?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Of all the examples you could have given lmao


Winx Club is pretty notoriously racist. They’re an Italian-made show and there have been multiple instances of white-washing their own dark-skinned characters, and making fun of black traits that were carefully censored out in the English translations, but you can still find them. The Flora character in particular, you really can’t tell that she’s supposed to be a POC woman.


And Totally Spies is a french cartoon of similar criticism, but not for being racist. Their issue is that they’re incredibly notorious for being a PG-rated kids fetish show with things like inflation, shrinking, furries, cross-dressing, schoolgirls, transformation, massive weight gain, most of it happening to the Clover character, who was the most active in her romantic pursuits of the 3 main girls.


Disney is also pretty notorious for making a point of infantilizing their cast playing teenagers through a very specific layered fashion sense that makes them appear younger than they actually are. This isn’t much of a criticism as they’re usually marketed for kids and pre-teens anyway, but there’s something to be said about it and how the goal is to completely desexualize women in general and the same standard is not applied to their male cast.


The powerpuff girls are undoubtedly one of the best examples of strong female characters, but they’re very unique and stand alone in their perfection. Especially when you compare the modern understanding of feminism to their Femme Fatale villain, who honestly seems to be more in the right now than she did in the late 90’s. They’re products of their time, unfortunately, so not everything holds up 20 years later. I also noticed you didn’t really mention any female characters or cast members from shows made within the last 5 years. Neither of us are kids anymore, and none of these shows are still on the air. Kids aren’t watching them. What about more modern examples?

[Anonymous]

Which media is telling woman they have no heroes? I don't remember hearing that.