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Way...WAY too many scenes with 100 lb women throwing several men around like rag dolls

posted 4 years ago by Ripkens25 (1901)
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Every woman knows kung-fu (at expert levels)....every woman throws every man around, never taking a punch or losing a fight. I get it, just like every other show and movie out there.....producers want the pendulum to sway away from men being the heroes anymore, and toward showing women as strong heroes on-screen (so that our daughters can grow-up feeling as though they can do anything....(certainly ANYTHING a man can do). I get that that's the mindset among producers and show writers. However....when the pendulum shifts THIS harshly and this FAR, it's not only unrealistic to the point of being silly, it's insulting and patronizing (more so to women than to men).

[–] Crocodile (2951) 3 years ago

The women who are agents know martial arts not every woman

[–] kukuxu (5409) 3 years ago

Knowing martial arts is not a magic bullet.

[–] Ripkens25 (1901) 3 years ago

Martial arts.....don't work.
There, i said it. Unless you are at a master level....martial arts are just something glamorized in movies and on TV...showing one person having the magic ability to throw 5 or 6 people around with ease (and without ever sustaining a blow themselves).
I was watching Chicago PD on TV the other day, and this 5' 4", 110 lb lady cop was throwing around a perp almost twice her size with ease. in real life, even if she were an expert-level practitioner of martial arts...she would not have had a chance in that fight.

But heck...even if they (writers, producers, directors, woke warriors) want to some how "even the scales" by showing every single woman in their stories as being martial arts experts....if you're going to be equal....if you're TRULY going to depict EQUALITY (rather than the pendulum being all the way on the other side of the fulcrum, stacked 100% for women...and 100% against men)....you're going to have to show women getting clocked by men and knocked out cold....50% of the time. (And NOBODY wants to see that). So instead...we get force-fed this female (and SJW) fantasy of women throwing men around with ease, always winning the fight, and never sustaining even one blow themselves.

[–] aavfreak (2862) 3 years ago

I would say martial arts do work, but can't compensate for extreme differences in size, weight, and strength.

That's why there are weight classes in boxing, wrestling, and MMA. Also why there are separate men's and women's classes.

There's no way even a heavyweight woman could compete in any men's category.

This is one of the reasons that modern "girrrl power" movies fail, when characters like Ellen Ripley (Alien) and Sarah Connor (Terminator) were, and still are, very popular. They overcame their difficulties despite their frailties, in a more realistic way - through determination and hard work, rather than "gurrrl power!"

[–] TandyMan (10364) 3 years ago

I stopped watching this show and a lot of others. The action is so unrealistic, you can no longer buy into the story any longer. All the sudden the FBI show I was watching became a superhero show, only this character doesn't even have superpowers and it all becomes so flippin dumb. And it used to just kind of lurk in the action show department, but it's since leaked into EVERYTHING.

Also, male or female, if you're gonna be that level of asskicker, you spend ALL your free time in the gym and training and mixing protein smoothies. So the characters having any sort of subplot domestic problems is also a joke.

[–] aavfreak (2862) 3 years ago

I stopped watching after the opening scene of the second episode. I could see exactly where it was going and it was so preposterous.