I'm so fucking sick of the "super badass woman who is as strong or stronger than all men" trope and it's not just because it's overused. It's because it doesn't accomplish at all what it claims to be for: "inspiring women".

How many badass, strong women do we see on movies? Nearly every single action movie has them. Are women 'inspired' by these 'strong female characters'?

Women still don't carry guns. Women still oppose gun ownership and self defense. Women aren't filling martial arts classes and committing to strength-training. Women aren't turning into rugged, strong individualists.

Instead, it's still the same stories over and over. "Oh I was raped in college, but I didn't say anything because I was scared". Fucking really? That's the 'strong woman' that we're still dealing with? Do we need another thirty Marvel movies of ultra-badass women who can beat up every single man to get that level of pathetic cowardice out of you?

"I was in an abusive relationship for 4 years and didn't leave because I was scared". "I can be healthy at any size". "I'm triggered by the word 'rape'".

I don't want women to be meek, submissive, pathetic cowards, but that's pretty much all they are, all they ever have been, and seemingly, it's all they appear to want to be.

So can we just fucking stop with this 'femme fatale' horseshit? How about in the next Marvel movie we can have Black Widow tied to a chair and she can cry about how triggered she is. How she doesn't have any guns or weapons, only a whistle, because "guns are made to kill!!!". Oh and make her weigh 210 pounds and she just smokes weed for the entire movie while wearing pajama bottoms, because that's more to Marvel's demographic.