“What would be considered”. Sorry
I help out with the youth group at church and one of the students is in the 10th grade and he is pretty retro (loves movies and tv shows from the 80s and 90s). He used to be a big Star Wars fan and lost interest due to "disney making it a princess product" as he puts it. He was asking me the other day how did all this happen or when did it start, and I couldn't pinpoint an exact person who started this but had some ideas.
What did start it all? I know Ghostbusters 2016 seems to be the first movie to actively be made to piss off fans (when the original director was trying to do Ghostbusters 3 and they screwed him over). With Star Wars, if they wanted to appeal to actual women who were fans they could've used Jaina Solo or Mara Jade.
Was it in gaming? I remember when gaming magazines seemed to have constant articles about women in gaming or about the "abuse" they received online as if they have never heard the language you hear where guys get together and hang out.
Comic books? I mean they literally made comics of women sitting around the table discussing feelings and as Eric July said "modern comics are made for 14 year old girls on tumblr who don't read comics"
So honestly who is patient zero or who is to blame?
I would say it started with disney star wars and ghostbusters really. Before that we had the resident evil movies and underworld series with op female stars aswell but they didnt shy away from casting hot actresses and show them in sexy outfits back then. Since that is gone there isnt much left to these type of movies. We still maybe get something like Atomic Blonde or Peppermint with a relativ op women but they also casted good looking women for that which can also get hurt sometimes even if some of the melee fighting looks ridiculous when they throw guys arround twice their size. Now its just bad writing/casting and no fanservice and weak/stupid men.
I’m a little more bitter about Star Wars having been a life long EU fan. They could’ve used Mara Jade if they were so gung ho about women.
That is a good point. If Ghostbusters 2016 had been hot women I suspect the backlash wouldn’t have happened but they did screw over the director of 1 and 2.