As a woman who looks forward toĀ ālotsaĀ āsplosions and gunsā movies, Iāve been happily consuming male power trip shoot-āem-ups for years, and it never occurred to me to complain that Hollywood wasĀ ātrickingā me into seeing Liam Neeson kicks some dudeās teeth in, or Bruce Willis pick off a room full of fugly alien terrorists, by dangling a supporting female character, or a female love interest, or--fuck--a woman in the background doing background stuff as if they were bait.
God fucking help us that an action movie comes out as part of an action movie franchise and adds a female main character hero who fucks shit up and steals a bit of the existing heroās thunder. The nerve.
I mean... can the cognitive dissonance be any worse?Ā
āWaa, the hero has bewbs and a vagina! Boycott! Persecution!ā
Do theseĀ āactivistsā not realize what a joke they are?