contestgamer said:
Yeah I've been noticing that theme too. It's unfortunate and it's not just ND trying to pander to this idea of strong female role models. It's showing up in TV and literature as well. Atomic blonde did a decent job of requiring the protagonist to fight in unconventional ways to overcome the male strength advantage. The problem is that most other media doesn't bother doing that and simply shows women physically overcoming men on equal footing - just mano-o-mano. |
Yep. Every depiction of man and woman fighting sees the woman kicking ass. You can see it in Ant Man and the Wasp, the Wasp kicks all the bad guys who happen to be all men and Ghost kicks Ant Man's ass, and in a scene she hunts him down like the alien hunts down the protagonist in Aliens: Isolation. What it really does though is make the protagonist look like a wimp, and nobody likes a wimpy protagonist, not even women.
If you can't show women getting beaten up by men, don't portray a fight between the genders at all. I like the way Infinity War went with it, in the war scene the women were fighting women and men were fighting men. That's the way to do it, if you're afraid of media backlash which we know will happen if there is a man beating up a woman.







