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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
sure, but it's fact that characters who are women aren't given as much rope as characters who are men. A male power fantasy doesn't nearly get the flack that a female power fantasy does.
To hang on star trek again, I don't really dig Disco. It's not really to my tastes. But so many folks engage in bad faith criticism it makes it hard to talk about the show in a vacuum.
I also think think videos like Cinema Sins have really had a negative impact writ large on film criticism.
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You can't deny that Disney is forcing the female hero issue, and it's not always working.
Even in End Game, the female characters all stop and take a moment to pose together....that was just dumb. Why would the female characters all be grouped that close to each other during a battle like that? Why would characters of those vastly different power levels all charge forward together in the same role?
Disney is clearly putting their own marketing and image ahead of good storytelling. Even then, Disney doesn't get it right. Why are the female characters posing, removing their masks, and flipping their hair. Why are all the actors who play them conventionally attractive? They couldn't find a single female actor who looks like an MMA fighter or a powerlifter? You know, people who might actually be proficient in battle.
The strange part is that they already have a bunch of solid female material to work with. Characters like Gamora, the Wasp, and the Scarlet Witch have strong lore and great stories behind them. Disney is instead choosing to go for PR stunts.
If you want to do diversity, you need to actually give the diverse characters proper storylines. Cramming in a bunch of female characters and giving them awful storytelling is simply counterproductive.