The failure of feminist Hollywood

when i'm catcalled in the street when incompetent men explain my own area of expertise to me hi my name is sydney welcome back to hell and as per usual before we launch in today's video is sponsored by established titles which you'd better watch because i tried really hard now the other day i was researching for another topic another video that is still on the way do not worry those of you who think i am not making long-form content anymore i am and during my adventure on the internet i came across an article about she-hulk and a particular part of this article set my blood on fire it explains that while marvel films lack humanistic character traits such as sex despite iron man being a womanizing millionaire and thor being a god surrounded by a sea of women these male superheroes don't pay these ladies any mind because the world is in danger and that is understandably more important however the primary she-hulk writer wants to change that narrative this isn't all just about boys and their need to feel worthy now jennifer walters she-hulk has arrived and she wants nothing to do with saving the world she's ready to be honest about her life with her newfound powers juggling her career and her dating life is there anything more depressing than dating in your 30s what else you gonna do as a hulk uh return to my career that i have spent years building ah what the so the male superheroes don't have any time for women because they're busy saving the world but the female superhero is not interested in saving the world and is instead interested only in her career and dating life do you see do you see the problem you could be an avenger oh i'm not a superhero that is for billionaires and narcissists and adult orphans who still save the world unlike you my friend it's like writers want people to hate female leads whether you've seen it or not you're probably all aware at this stage that she-hulk is yet another bizarre attempt to shove corporate feminism down everybody's throats despite what feminist hollywood might have you believe these films shows and franchises are not appealing to men but they're also not appealing to women seriously i don't know a single woman who actually enjoys this except maybe the bitter ones with like 15 cats who's to say um i don't own a single cat and i enjoy it yet don't have any cats yet so that's what i want to talk about today why feminist hollywood movies are uniquely terrible why they don't appeal to anyone especially women and all the components that go into making them so deeply unwatchable but before you once again bored my hell gondola and we snuggle up together to watch some marvel movie punishment let's hear from today's sponsor established titles did you see this see what this article it says that they cut down like millions of trees in scotland to make room for windmills i hate windmills wind turbines whatever same thing there comes a point in every person's life where they have to pay homage to scotland and 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80s and 90s i think that it is fair to argue this was a great time for film and entertainment story lines feel authentic the characters are memorable and the writing is still so quotable today and most importantly writers weren't focused on forced diversity or writing films with the sole purpose of pushing woochism and other social narratives good films did well we didn't pathologize when they didn't and during this time period plenty of great films and shows with female leads captured people's attention terminator with sarah connor ellen ripley and aliens princess leia and star wars there are tons of these tons of these examples some of which you won't agree with but i personally enjoy lilu from the fifth element because i don't know i like that she's feminine and emotional while also being like this weird light creature who will save the planet and let's be real we all collectively enjoyed her bandage outfit you aren't lying to me you're lying to yourself but these female leads are a far cry from what feminist hollywood is giving us today in an effort to place women in what have been long considered male roles feminist hollywood over-corrected giving us a series of unlikable unrelatable unrealistic strong female leads i need you to fix his suit the suit is literal perfection it will be when it fits a woman it's a no that's gonna be a no for me okay thank you for your input walmart robin the trouble is they've done this over and over and over and have clearly learned nothing the box office doesn't lie even if screen rant does now the most obvious starting point for this entire discussion is that these modern feminist films fail because of sexism one article i found thinks that captain marvel was criticized because men are man babies who don't want to see a woman headlining a marvel movie in reality brie larson is just like super unlikable on and off screen and if the objective was to embody an effortlessly badass woman that men love and women want to be well that wasn't achieved whatsoever i have nothing to prove to you i do all my stunts i did i did my stunts because i thought that that's what everyone did [Music] tom cruise over here no it won't be the first me not the next tom cruise thank you very much for the record this is tom cruise doing his own stunts what leftists and feminists often attribute to sexism could be more accurately summarized by the fact that film and tv today just isn't really all that good and having female leads doesn't change that if anything with the way most of them are written it makes it worse and there are a few reasons for this for starters most of these characters are female for the sake of it when they're gender swapped in well-known series and franchises the truth is there isn't any actual need for them think star wars or the female doctor who you see i care so little about these female leads i can't even remember their names girl with shiny light stick who has a disappointing romance arc blonde female character absolutely no one asked for on a serious note you guys do not understand how much i hated rey in star wars i watched it the whole time thinking i don't mind if they kill the main character this time i don't mind i'll i'll i will i will do it i will i will i me i i volunteers tribute and because these female characters are often shoved into a movie or a show for no good reason it means that they aren't fully fledged people with their own pain struggles and flaws they are there for the express purpose of propagating a feminist message and when they do for some reason have a struggle it's as one-dimensional and flat as this well here's the thing bruce i'm great at controlling my anger i do it all the time when i'm catcalled in the street when incompetent men explain my own area of expertise to me i do it pretty much every day because if i don't i will get called emotional or difficult or might just literally get murdered so i'm an expert at controlling my anger because i do it infinitely more than you bruce banner turns into the hulk because he has inner turmoil that he sometimes can't control i read that some changes to his backstory have added that he was abused as a child and that he and hulk are two separate personas struggling for control of the body when i had the gauntlet the stones i really tried to bring her back the point is unlike she-hulk banner is not dealing with some trivial nonsense where someone calls out to him in the street to say he looks nice and i have to admit even while i was collecting and watching clips to edit together this video the way that banner is portrayed on screen especially his relationship with black widow the way that she calms him down and so on it even was starting to get me in the feels she hulk elicits none of that when i watch her rather than finding her humorous which i don't know maybe that's that maybe that's what she's supposed to be i just find her annoying and weak which is ironic considering she's supposed to be a strong female character your transformations are triggered by anger and fear those are like the baseline of any woman just existing given that i am a woman i do feel a little qualified to say that i am acutely aware of the unique struggles that women have however articulating them like this is just so dizziness the female protagonists of old including those who were featured in older films that have now been remade and destroyed were women who embodied actual feminine and female characteristics and traits but the difference is that those traits didn't stop them from being badasses and they aren't female for the sake of a female character they are well-written thoughtful representations of a character who just happens to be female take sarah connor for example in terminator 2 she is hell-bent on killing mike dyson a man she doesn't know for something he doesn't know will have terrible consequences when she finally has the chance and sees his son trying to protect him she breaks down her own son shows up and they share a moment our badass leading lady suddenly becomes a human and a mother it is no different at the end of the fifth element when lilu knows the earth is about to be exploded her very purpose is to save life and she can't fulfill that purpose because she can't see why humanity is worth saving if all it does is kill and destroy that and you know she got like shot at and then beaten up and she's she's bleeding it's all very sad the scene where bruce willis is holding her and she's crying tells us how big a burden this is for her today's female characters are flat and empty and impossible to relate to they have no flaws they immediately succeed at everything they do and they have no journey of personal growth and development we see this when she-hulk beats banner repeatedly during training together we see this when rey in star wars immediately masters things that took luke forever to learn like stop this milan is a gifted fighter from day one which is a hundred percent the opposite of what she is in the animation and apparently captain marvel is the strongest of all the superheroes because okay i believe you think i'm jealous is that what i'm feeling to cap it off so many of these women are either full of unnecessary unkind caddy lines and whining or they're in a pigment pickle measuring or they're in a manned pickle measuring contest with the men around them some of you might disagree with me here but one of the reasons i loved wonder woman was because she embodied a femininity often lost on female superheroes she trained for years to hone her skills to earn her skills and when these skills failed her and a loved one dies her pain is so obviously crushing it makes her relatable and when she finally triumphs we celebrate along with her that and you know the movie made me walk out of the cinema wanting to become a ninja i'm also talking about the 2017 wonder woman movie and not the weird garbage that came after the point is a well-rounded character regardless of sex makes a film worth watching but throwing a woman in there just for the sake of it isn't a good enough reason for me to care especially when their entire personality is built around i don't know like fighting the patriarchy or something and this brings us to the point that modern feminist characters are not people they serve as vessels for feminist propaganda and man-hating i think it's more or less true that when writers focus more attention on the sex skin color or sexual orientation of a character rather than making that character into a multi-faceted individual it's ultimately unwatchable batwoman which was cancelled after three seasons stank to high heaven of identity politics it started off with endlessly snarky comments and devolved from there an article from earlier this year wrote that it was groundbreaking to have a black bisexual actress become batwoman but even this article notes that the casting choice didn't do much to mitigate the narrative problems of the show because newsflash being gay and female doesn't change terrible writing sorry about that while we have no idea why batgirl was cancelled before it even aired something tells me it probably had something to do with the same identity politics that killed off so many of its predecessors overall writers who don't properly flesh out a character do that character zero favors worse still are the female characters who are forced to compete with their male counterparts or who are made superior to them even if it doesn't make any sense people came down pretty hard on thor love and thunder which features natalie portman as the female thor or jane because it didn't make jane's character look awesome it just made thor's character look like an imbecile as some of you may have noticed this is actually a very common theme in modern television and film men are often portrayed as weak silly and misogynistic just make sure to put the eggs on top so i shouldn't open up the carton and just dump them all in there okay i'm gonna go wait in the car just trying to help yeah i know how to pack my own suitcase i can pack my own grocery bag let's also remember that men make up a huge portion of audiences when it comes to watching particularly superhero movies and all this does is alienate that base these films go out of their way to make men look bad and it's different to simply portraying men as the villain in addition to that men can never seem to be of any help to the women they fight or work alongside i personally hate this because it makes it a matter of male versus female rather than how can we solve this problem together i mean it also leads to weird situations where we are forced to suspend our disbelief to watch some tiny woman beat the snot out of a man twice her size because again yeah i believe you can throw around this man lesbian bella one thing i also think is worth noting is that every good female character i've listed so far has emotions and has emotional motivations for doing the things that they do unfortunately today's female leads have these feelings and emotions written out of them and if they do for whatever reason have a feeling it's often totally ridiculous and over the top i don't think that captain marvel experiences a single feeling while on screen even when she's alone and supposed to be reflective sorry bri this isn't an emotional face try harder can you keep your emotions in check long enough to take me on just kidding she doesn't have any on the flip side you have she hulk flipping out at men outside a bar for being weirdos because she's sick of men i don't know i i don't know what i'm supposed to get from this if rendering female characters emotionless robot people is supposed to make them appear stronger and push against this idea that women are more emotional than men it's an abject failure a strong woman knows when to be emotional and when to put her feelings aside it isn't some sad reflection of women that we experience emotions and it shouldn't be forcibly removed from these female personalities in order for them to achieve something worthwhile and you know if they wanted to have she-hulk losing her absolute chops at some men it would have made a lot more sense if she wasn't presented to us as a character who consistently gets her way until this point it's not like we've seen her having setback after setback and getting angrier and angrier so this moment makes absolutely no sense not that anything she does makes sense taking all the traits that are often seen in villainous male characters and just shoving them onto female characters doesn't suddenly mean we're going to like them i think the fact of the matter is that showrunners and writers contribute sexism to their own characters by writing them poorly and no amount of shaming from directors and writers is going to change that my real plea is for men to have enough empathy to go see movies starring women stop this obviously there are a couple points that i left out of this video in the interest of not having it be a thousand years long but in summary good female protagonists are not one-dimensional they aren't simply there to parrot liberal feminist talking points they serve a higher purpose and often have deep rooted motivations for what they do they don't compete with their male counterparts rather they acknowledge the strengths of the men around them even sometimes acquiescing to them when necessary and needed i am a woman who really does enjoy female leads not because i can relate to them 100 of the time but because i like going on a journey with them that leads them to be stronger and more resilient or going in the opposite direction where they're a little more hardened and learned to be softer and to love and so forth i don't need to be bludgeoned to death with a feminist message to watch these movies but i also don't want to be subjected to ridiculous feminist propaganda that has no place in modern society watching female characters stand up at the expense of their male counterparts in the end wochism has become a shield for bad television and film sexism has become the justification when a female-led film doesn't do well as if male lead films don't fail all the time and these justifications fall flat when you consider just how little effort is put into these female-led films and the female characters who lead them feminist hollywood sucks and i'm fairly certain that they have absolutely nobody to blame but themselves now before i open the floor to all of you this is just a reminder to check out established titles using the link in the description when you do and you use code sydney you'll get 10 off any purchase now open the floor to all of you what do you all think is this as annoying as i think it is do you like female characters do you dislike female characters does it put you off watching a movie if it has a female lead what do you make of gender swapping is it good is it bad is it unnecessary is it very necessary what do you think of she-hulk and the blow-up around she-hulk or the opinions around she-hulk and what do you generally make of this issue overall as always if you like the video hit subscribe and the thumbs up button if you want to leave a comment video so just be respectful about it and i will see you guys next time

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Length: 20min 41sec (1241 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 31 2022