As a woman who looks forward to “lotsa ‘splosions and guns” movies, I’ve been happily consuming male power trip shoot-’em-ups for years, and it never occurred to me to complain that Hollywood was “tricking” me into seeing Liam Neeson kicks some dude’s 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 hero’s thunder. The nerve.
I mean... can the cognitive dissonance be any worse?
“Waa, the hero has bewbs and a vagina! Boycott! Persecution!”
Do these “activists” not realize what a joke they are?