See, any trouble over this could've been avoided by NOT SAYING THAT SENTENCE. Is the Chris Pine character a Bard? Fine, he can end up in situations where his lack of brawn and front-line combat experience would end up with a female that does have those traits saving him. Would even make sense in D&D setting. But blatantly saying you're trying to emasculate a leading man whose role isn't supposed to even be macho or action-y in the first place? What was the point in that if not to insult THE TARGET FUCKING AUDIENCE?
Hey guys, these women you write are half the size of the male characters, how do you compensate with that to make them seem strong? We just make the males act like pansies despite being clearly larger and more muscular! Hollywood writing in a nutshell…
I had an argument over a friend calling me sexist for saying it, I told him flat out that if he thought it was sexist that I as a 230 pound male should be his fighting equivalent by his 165 pound self, he ceded the point.
See, any trouble over this could've been avoided by NOT SAYING THAT SENTENCE. Is the Chris Pine character a Bard? Fine, he can end up in situations where his lack of brawn and front-line combat experience would end up with a female that does have those traits saving him. Would even make sense in D&D setting. But blatantly saying you're trying to emasculate a leading man whose role isn't supposed to even be macho or action-y in the first place? What was the point in that if not to insult THE TARGET FUCKING AUDIENCE?
To get their next Hollywood job from our female masters.
Hey guys, these women you write are half the size of the male characters, how do you compensate with that to make them seem strong? We just make the males act like pansies despite being clearly larger and more muscular! Hollywood writing in a nutshell…
I had an argument over a friend calling me sexist for saying it, I told him flat out that if he thought it was sexist that I as a 230 pound male should be his fighting equivalent by his 165 pound self, he ceded the point.
The article this is referring to.