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I wouldn't know, I didn't watch it.
Anything mentioning strong female leads is an instant skip.
You're not losing out. Based on a YA series with Mary Sues, love triangles, scenes of the main girl going through a montage of beauty treatments... The show includes turning whites not white, heterosexuals gay, etc.
It's not worth your time, you are too male, too old (I don't know your age, but you are over 13) and too intelligent for it.
Sounds like the typical utter dreadfulness of Netflix.
It should be. It used to be quite nice when "girl power" wasn't the whole point of it, e.g. Eowyn and the Witch-king. But they've pushed it so hard that it's hard to see it now without projecting modern-day nonsense onto it.
You're agreeing with me? Someone get the camera.
What's the point? We're never going to get both of you to smile, much less at the same time :)
Eh, even at the time, that was pretty cringe inducing. "I am no man." It was pure stupid girl power. Same with all the Arwen crap.
I am talking about the book. It was a little dubious in the movie. And there was no Arwen crap in the movie.
One annoying part of this who "strong female lead" propaganda is that from 1904 until around 1964, "strong female leads" were very common, even standard, in American movies. Anyone here ever heard of, a century on, Mary Pickford, for heaven's sake?
All through that time It was very common to have Westerns where there was a female cattle rancher, a female who ran the saloon and was secretly organizing stage coach robberies, female timber cutter or mine operators. Perfectly normal.
It was similarly the case for crime movies, in film noir, in melodrames, romances, and so on. Women like Marie Windsor and Ida Lupino were very often the lead actor in stories, overshadowing the men both in story importance and in screen time.
Has anyone ever heard of a little film called "Gone With The Wind". Strong female leads, anyone?
I could easily list one hundred women who were major stars and leads in US movies over the period mentioned.
It was only in the mid-1960s, coincidentally with the rise of feminism, that these types roles very quickly started to disappear. I do not know why, but I think that it was no coincidence that that was also the period that saw the end of the Studio system, the decline of the objective - yes, objective - quality of movies and the triumph of television.
Anyway, my point is, just like every other kind of history,the world of woke knows no film history.
Thing is a strong female lead back in the day was.... still for all intents and purposes a female and it made sense. Doesn't mean they were not sometimes doing some rough and tough stuff, but they still seemed like women doing those roles.
Now adays in most cases a "strong female lead" just means a woman pretending to be a dude and they are basically interchangable.
That is what always got me about feminism.... if you really break it down most feminism is actually a celebration of manlyness weirdly and just forcing women to adopt male traits.