Female sensible adults just don't play good characters. A typical male can be funny, aggresive scary tough etc. While a lot of those traits have to be very specific to get right on a female.
When you shove a kid in there, and you sell the kid as a manly female, like ellie and jodie, it generally fits the character.
Infact the worst part of beyond is the cringey moment when jodey is tryna be sexy...weirdly