Feminist Hollywood and Unlikable Female Characters

I've seen a couple of videos recently about how Feminist Hollywood in their effort to promote "Strong Female Character" (as Critical Drinker would say) have produced a bunch of trash.

The video I saw most recently - though it is the oldest is from Comix Division: Unlikable Female Protagonist Gets A Trigger Warning? Because people are distressed that a woman would be portrayed as ANYTHING but perfect.

That's right folks. Apparently society has become so fragile, that the mere presence of an unlikable female protagonist is enough to cause people emotional damage.

Think about this folks. 200,000 years of human evolution, fighting and crawling our way to the top of the food-chain, and THIS is the culmination of that struggle. We are SO fucked.

Here is the Comix Division disclaimer:

Of course Comix Division is not the only person to notice the "all female characters must be perfect" rule. Critical Drinker's review of the live-action Mulan pointed out that the character faced no struggle. She was a perfect fighter from day one, able to defeat anyone, despite being smaller in an arena where physical strength actually matters. In the animated Mulan the character faces that struggle, perseveres and overcomes - to the best of her ability. But that means that she was weak to begin with, and that is not allowed. (See The Rules - as defined by Drinker - above. Click on the image for a larger view.)

But the most current video is from Sydney Watson. Because if I only quote men, people will tell me I am self-loathing for bending knee to the patriarchy. (I'm not joking.)

Okay, I started transcribing part of Sydney's Rant, but just watch the video. It is 20 minutes, so grab a beverage and a snack, or put it up during lunch tomorrow, or whatever. If we make this kind of content popular enough, then maybe, just maybe someone at Marvel or DC will see it, and will finally get women characters like Sarah Conner in Terminator 2, or Ripley in Aliens, or Charlie in The Long Kiss Goodnight. We won't get those kickass women heroes any other way. Or do you think Marvel and DC can figure this sh*t out on their own?

This is Sydney Watson's video The failure of feminist Hollywood, in which Sydney details all of the ways female protagonists have failed in the past several years.

In typing up this post, I was reminded of The Saga of the Renunciates by Marion Zimmer Bradley. There is a scene in one of the novels (it is a 3-novel omnibus edition) where a man asks one of the renunciates (women who have forsworn traditional roles in a traditional society) what does she do when faced with a task that requires more physical strength than she has. She answers by saying, that she does exactly what a man does - ask for help to lift the parcel/whatever. The first book in that trilogy was written in 1976, and the last in 1984, though I really only like the first 2 entries in that particular trilogy. Those women were more relatable, more appealing, and still stronger in 1976 than any female character coming out of Hollywood in the past 5 years.