Why make it a woman?

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Maybe. Or maybe it's less about female casualties being overrepresented than it is about females in movies being underrepresented. The majority of bankable Hollywood stars are men and WAY more leading characters in movies are men. And in order for John Cusack to star in the movie, the killed soldier had to be a woman. Or it might have just been considered a more touching story for a father to be trying to figure out how to tell his daughters their mother is dead as opposed to a mother telling them about a dead father.
Or maybe it's just an individual story with no agenda. Who knows....

You're pathetic. Guess what, you *beep* imbecile? Women have DIED in combat. This movie depicted one such event. Get a life, you monumental waste of human flesh.

You're a douchebag. There have been women killed or injured in combat since this war began. The writer(s) probably made the character a woman so that the husband had to deal with telling their children that their mom is gone. Women have doing that for years. You're probably waiting for the next American Pie installment.



The New York Rangers suck. And Sidney Crosby is a cry baby!

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Like somebody says it really shows discrimination in Hollywood more - against women.

Also 113 isn't that tiny a number. It's not like it's completely made up. Women did die. The film isn't about the woman though. We don't even see her. It's about the spouse left behind. Most of those are women, but the film has made it about a man. Women have to tell their kids their other parent has died much more often. Hmmm

It's silly to make it a gender issue though.

Are you serious? There are lot's of women in the military who are "serving our country". True, there may not be as many fatalities as there are men, but women HAVE in fact been killed/injured in combat. That's reality. So what's wrong with having this movie tell the other side of the story? The other side that actually does happen. And women just as much as men have experienced the brutalities of war; since more military women than men have experienced sexual abuse from both sides of the conflict. So both genders/sexes have experienced their fair share of the horror of war. And what "feminist agenda" are you talking about? What agenda is general? There is no "agenda". Like I said, they are just telling a story about a military woman who was killed in combat, again, something that happens for REAL. And what's wrong with being a feminist? Do you even know what that is? For some unfortunate and very bizarre reason people have taken it out of context. Feminism is the idea that ALL HUMANS deserve to be equal, we are fighting against misandry and misogyny; and the ridiculous double standards/stereotypes that people of all genders/sexes (yes there is more than two), have to go through.

Welcome to equality. Welcome to the right for women's deaths and their impact in families to be represented as well. The fact that people question it, or try to write it off as less important because statistics, means we still have a long way to go.

Think of it this way, if it helps you come to grips. Hollywood still follows the real world statistically. Only a small percentage of women in the military compared to men? Only a small percentage of movies regarding their deaths compared to ones featuring men. Better?







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Because every story, no matter how small, is worth telling. The individual is the smallest minority, and we all have different experiences in life, different narratives. A female soldier and a male widower might seem like a niche group or a special interest theme, but grief is universal, and the war is merely a backdrop for the exploration of the human condition.