Audiences are bored of girl boss characters

Hollywood keeps trying to make strong female characters but only ever ends up making strong characterless females now in making a video like this you might suppose I'm a male chauvinist dinosaur who's casually misogynistic around women all the time well shows how much you know because I don't ever interact with or talk to any women so the joke's on you actually I do talk to some women the lady who fills out the prescription for my diazapam to help wean me off the oxy conton and in the last year I've been visited by a census Taker and a Jehovah's Witness and one of those two was also a woman one of the biggest failed ideas in the last couple of years is the onscreen girl boss sometimes known as the strong female character it's true that women were marginalized for decades in Hollywood and that Superhero fantasy has been appreciated by audiences made up mostly of dudes in recent years Hollywood seemed to think that once women had patiently abided they would at last be able to take the narrative Reigns to allow un fed female perspectives voices and storytelling hounded by female writers and directors and at last Blockbuster superhero entertainment would achieve a Longs sought parody the traditional male audience would obligingly adapt to the new gender Dynamics opening their minds hearts and wallets and mainstream ladies maybe a little tentative about superheroes and fantasy would keenly try something typically out of their element and end up having a terrific time being entertained by strong female characters he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died black girl magic do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot messaging sucks any messaging and entertainment sucks there's a great quote from the Russian director Andre tarkovski never try to convey your idea to the audience it is a thankless and senseless task show them life and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it modern writ ERS have got this ass backwards they aren't especially interested in showing their audience life and are way more interested in trying to convey their idea to the audience and the biggest culprit is Kathleen Kennedy Kathleen I hate every decision action and sequence of cause and effect that led up to you being born I resent your father for not having the discipline to pull his small and viny penis out of your mother's stinking vagina and instead fatefully spraying his watery semen into that soggy dump from which you were expelled 9 months later and I detest the Colombian Farmers truck drivers and Baristas along the entirety of the supply and production chain that culminated with you first handing a cup of coffee to Steven Spielberg you're the reason I have to take so many pills cuz you ruined my beloved space films in order to get through making this video I decided to try and speed up the effects of the anti-depressant medication by sliding down my drawers and inserting the pills as suppositories but all that happened was that it agitated my bow and the anti-depressant chemicals in the medication splattered out with the feal matter leading to a diarrhea of sadness there are no ideas fantasy and Escapist popcorn movies aren't really meant to be jam-packed with profound ideas not everything can be directed by Dennis V but fantasy epic superhero or sci-fi stuff can have good ideas in it democracy and freedom versus authoritarianism ethical choices about time and consequences but in these girl strong female character projects over the last couple of years the stories have no ideas there's nothing to think about your head could be as empty as a soap bubble while you're watching there's tons of stuff literally happening on screen look at all that stunt work with people flinging themselves around and all those CGI explosions and all those choreographed fight sequences with obliging stuntmen but there's nothing happening in any sense of ideas it's just stuff with strong female characters it's empowered ladies in content you can become so desensitized you don't even register the side effects of your prescribed serotonin reuptake Inhibitors such as confusion agitation muscle twitching sweating shivering diarrhea who what when where why to show how two-dimensionally principle driven these female chick ladies are at the expense of themes and ideas try reducing them to the basics of who what when where and why who is gadriel an ancient all wise youthfully beautiful princess warrior leader and strong female character what is gadriel a strong female character when is gadriel throughout time and ever present is a strong female character where is gadriel everywhere as the driver and decider and rescuer and planner of events as a strong female character why is Galadriel because she's a strong female character don't try and shape your audience my nephew and niece are ungrateful TW BS who get on my nerves I was extra nice to them and took them to see the new Willy Wonka live experience and all they did was complain about how dull it was anyway one of the kids the boy got given something cool by his parents something he'd been really keen on for ages and was gratified because it really expressed his interests but then his little sisters started getting really stroppy and sulking and whining and pestering their parents to also be able to share and use the thing she'd never expressed any particular interest in it before but just the sheer fact of her brother having something and some vague sense of being excluded made her insufferable and so the older brother had to share and even then the little sister didn't really have that much sincere interest my point is I don't really like my niece and nephew my other point is that just because a genre of entertainment doesn't feature a certain kind of representation doesn't have to mean that it therefore suffers from a lack of representation if there haven't been that many girl boss strong female characters and superhero or fantasy stuff it doesn't does mean there's any repression or denial it might just mean that the genres are inherently boy Brands the comic book Source material overwhelmingly read by guys the Lord of the Rings generally read and extoled by guys during their formative years Star Wars being a boyish power fantasy Escapist brand which George Lucas even once said was written for 11-year-old boys Peter Parker being the quintessential sensitive full of energy bcent male with a key Spider-Man story beginning with the words this like any story worth in was all about a girl so when Marvel and the amazonians and whoever else think they're being assertive and altering the Paradigm and creating new opportunities and genres the alleged chicks are discouraged to portray and masses of ladies are theoretically eager to see on screen it doesn't come across as empowered at all it's more like a younger sister who climbs up to her brother's Treehouse where he and his buddies hang out and ignores the keep outside nailed to the door and butts away in when they're not there only to discover Maybe May the whole thing isn't actually that interesting and there's really just some bad boy smells from sleeping bags some wrinkly Tatty pages from porn mags old Comics a gatorade bottle and empty Dorito bags my point is a lot of these strong female characters are there out of some ill judged and sanctimonious principle not creative urge or love of material if you're in the hyper competitive market driven world of entertainment and your key impetus is the principle of the matter then your characters will be boring if your corporate strategy is to take intrinsic boy Brands and try to expand your ticket and toy sales by making it also a girl brand then you'll likely end up alienating your established base of nerdy boys and fail to attract many chicks who will lukewarm about fist fights laser swords Force chokes Orcs Scrolls and Infinity Stones I'm preoccupied all the time with Infinity Stones constant dehydration and stress means I developed kidney stones that have been around forever the doctor says I should have a tube stuck down my Johnson so they can try to look for the stones and maybe help them pass but the last time I let a doctor examine my junk he started wretching because the smell was too vinegary and stale on account of me not having changed my drawers since forever despite having to endure the itching and the rashes that was my Infinity Saga alpha males and Alpha females women writers in Hollywood don't like alpha males they are the category of human beings they are least likely to be positive and admiring about that's why a Legacy character like Captain James T Kirk is routinely excluded from retrospective posters of Star Trek because he was an alpha dog who did the hunka chunka with a bunch of Intergalactic hotties and James Bond who last time we saw him was a sulky guy mooching about on an island with a teddy bear waiting to die so we know what an on-screen alpha male is but what is a fantasy alpha female supposed to be an alpha anything is able to get what they want by being Charming in a coercive sometimes domineering kind of way or they have a charismatic assured presence with our alpha male protagonist alpha male characteristics are the means by which they rise to become powerful and influential Hollywood strong female characters cut out the whole intrinsically compelling charismatic interesting or charming bit and just become strong female characters they don't go through a journey they go through a process and that's why they're boring what is the female gaze when gazing at females we know how men like to look at women on screen what the supposedly reductivist male gaze is in cinema an apprehension and focus on women in ways that Linger on their Allure their profiles sometimes in an objectifying way but other times dwelling on their equinity their Grace we like them to be ethereal like that chick who goes bathing in the public fountain in L doy V or whenever Lauren ball gave that look that seemed to say come hither but keep your distance nowadays Hollywood isn't really interested in that kind of thing except for Christopher Nolan getting out Florence pews Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't really know much about intercourse anymore ever since I got to middle age and my libido peed out and taking anti-depressants and Viagra at the same time made my Johnson go Haywire like one of those inflatable balloon figures that Lurch up and down and sway all over the place outside car dealerships but now that women have C BL lach to Showcase women on screen and big popcorn fantasy action superhero stuff what is their ideal of a female Gaze on other women they don't seem to know nobody seems to know they can't be objectified but their Contours can be shown off but not with any display of skin so there are neck to ankle costumes which make the female form look like unarticulated Mounds like window mannequins are female viewers getting much out of this is it a contextualization of womanly isness through a female gaze that resonates or appeals or gets to the heart of feminism feminism itness I'd like to get answers to these questions by asking some real life women I could ask the Filipino woman who handled my website upgrade inquiry over the phone the other day but I don't remember her name and I'm beginning to suspect that the woman I've been talking to over the internet via chatbot isn't actually real why are you making chicks like the dudes you don't like why are your lady chick characters brimming with the stoic male characteristics you're always disparaging after a decade or two of trying to deconstruct differences in gender because such differences according to Progressive theorists are socially constructed and therefore uphold hierarchies in society that hold women back there is a drive in Hollywood to create female characters replicating or outdoing the masculine characteristics they've been trying to expose as just gender constructs stoicism emotional and excess accessibility storess and patronizing social dominance so if these are socially constructed male characteristics that need to be broken down which you allege inhibit young men from realizing they're more sensitive and less identifiably gendered selves then why are you creating female characters and charging them up to 11 with those very masculine characteristics you spent decades rolling your eyes at here's the strange Paradox if gadriel from the rings of power were a male character female writers and critics would almost certainly deride him as an emotionally shut off obnoxious time warped Macho character who was in fact almost a parody of dated traditional masculinity but as a female protagonist with these characteristics she's a progressive empowered character as well as this most of these strong female characters are kind of sexless and certainly don't have relationships as if relationships are compromising to their independence and strength where to still this isn't what female audience react to the Marvels flopped barely 37% of rings of power viewers finished watching the season Ekko was a train wreck Madame Webb was a disaster yet when a strong female superhero character like Wonder Woman also has some sensual and sensitive vulnerabilities and is open to exploration of those feelings and fully fledged romance it crashes at the box office women like relationship stuff there is a thing called the beal test a half sarcastic half serious set criteria about how women ought to be portrayed on screen the criteria of the beal test are one that at least two women are featured two that these women talk to each other and three that they discuss something other than a man this sounds okay in theory if you're a cat owning chip on the shoulder scissor sister flaky Californian script writer with blue hair and a chubby rare end whose neurotic and prickly and has a metal piercing in her cooch but it just doesn't reflect reality if you've been on a train or a Subway or like me you take the bus because they took away your license because you failed the eye exam on account of having too many cataracts then when you overhear conversations between two ladies especially young ladies the conversation frequently drifts towards discussing dudes they're dating ex dudes Exes who were prospectively redeemable as boyfriends again the frustratingly inept or Unfaithful dudes the dude who isn't right for their mutual friend their besties Lack of self self esteem which means they get stuck in cycles of unhappiness with dudes and on and on until you get so overwhelmed with nauseous boredom you either stick on headphones and play Genesis on your CD Walkman at full blast or you get off a few stops early and walk the rest of the way to the farmacy to pick up your anti-depressants and painkiller medication ladies like relationship material it's consistently rated among their most popular genres on the TV and has partly to do with Biology you see the ladies have it harder than the guys they're under enormous pressure with a difficult timeline to establish themselves in a career discover and nurture their own identity achieve their goals and find a decent F all in a socioculturally narrow window if they want to also prepare to raise a family guys can dick around for years or even decades because their sperm doesn't go off and as long as they can manage a semi they can put a Bunn in the oven of an obliging lady much later therefore relationships and discussions about men suitable men perspective of men loyalties of men the prospects of men and the troubling intricacies of relationships are inevitably going to be a preoccupation for women and a subject of great interest in terms of romantic dramas and all that tedious bridgein notebook The Lakehouse Bridges of Madison County and endless Hallmark Christmas trash they eat up interminably the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Marvel is intensely cool to some of them and of passing interest to others but in terms of demographics and corporate strategy you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink especially if the liquid is a glowing fluorescent goo like you see in Marvel films these days you can't bend audiences to your will that's not how storytelling or the market Works screenwriters don't know what an ideal Escapist entertainment female archetype is no matter what your opinion might be on the matter most people can describe the broad characteristics of ideal male Escapist entertainment archetypes James Bond swaave demeanor and implacable confidence with the ladies facility with cuttingedge technology his power to decisively and single-handedly influence the fate of society and his overall Aura of Independence a loft above any domestic malays or career malays relationship malays midlife crisis malays or wife ning in his ear like a flea about his flaws then there's Tony Stark a Maverick popular socialite entrepreneur teaming with Creative Energy and pushing boundaries with tech who also grows to become more Humane self-aware less preoccupied with things and more open to other people there is also the Bruce Willis type the staunchly incredulous every man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances and improvises and prevails and of course the Luke Skywalker or froto bagin type who undergo the hero's journey as callow and naive youths and grow to accept a destiny larger than themselves but what is the female ideal Escapist entertainment archetype writers have had more leeway and scope in the last few years than ever to delve into this idea and still don't seem to know they seemed to get partway there with Wonder Woman because she was powerful and morally decent and open to exploring her emotions and appreciating support and the value of teamwork but then the character abruptly faded because the writers couldn't think of what else to do with her and were hamstrung by the limitations of an Israeli actress with a peachy backside and great Hooters but incredibly limited range of expression they also produced Black Widow which was also a success as a fairly G variety Fe fatal and while being sophisticated as well as visual Sugar Rush and juicing eye candy for the fellas woman didn't turn out in droves proportionate to the ouling boys it sure as wasn't Teemu Indiana Jones who was so stuffed with girls can do anything goodies that she became a bizarre overloaded girl boss reactor more cunning than Indiana Jones more decisive with more agency outshining him in action sequences is both a scholar of extraordinary knowledge and a notorious Beauty pursued by a simp ex-boyfriend and who ultimately makes the decisive act at the climax of the film a hyper concentrated mixture of everything the writers or Kathleen Kennedy could envisage to Define an ideal Escapist entertainment archetype and audiences men and women wanted nothing to do with the film in the end the identifiable brand was Indiana Jones and this Helen a Shaw flea bag lady was just an interloper not so much a person as a grab bag of silly unrestrained Flights of Fancy of the screenwriters anywh who if you're a woman leave a comment below and that way I can claim to have legitimately interacted with a woman you could also like subscribe and share which could mean a whole bunch of woman are talking about me at once which hasn't happened since I went into a feminist bookstore and all the staff gathered around me asking me what my business was I told them I just wanted to use the bathroom and they were none too pleased when my medications caused me to Splatter diarrhea all over the bowl in there I didn't even buy any [Music] books

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Published: Wed Mar 06 2024