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.