Apparently the Red Sonja actress crapped on the source material and said it would be very female empowered and then said something about the “male gaze”.
I love 70s through 90s Conan comics and would sometimes buy Red Sonja along with them. Also there are some great books as well as the original Robert E Howard Conan (which I read a few months ago). Goes without saying that the audience for Red Sonja is male and in the lore (not sure if they have changed it or not) she said she would share her bed with the man who can beat her in a fight. So I’d personally end the movie where she meets the man who defeats her.
Honestly a Conan or Red Sonja series with violence and sexy women would do great. Which is why they would rather give us butchered Wheel of Time or Rings of Power
I enjoy that the "male gaze" is as shallow as "men might be attracted to this woman and that's bad" and is part of the reason why the Sweet Baby Inc rocket took off since every game touched by them had fucking Rocky Dennis looking bitches trying to seduce the main character.
If anything describes the push back against and hatred towards western women, its the hubristic assumption that we are superior to our ancestors and brethren. A lot of the implicit value of women is that they can be fucked and make babies, a value that is literally imprinted into our genetic wiring. Certain species will fuck a female knowing that their heads will be cut off and eaten by that female; it is something we all share. It's why we revile and need to be browbeaten into accepting gays, for instance.
If women lost the ability to fuck and reproduce on the whole then there would be no use keeping them around. They build their entire Machiavellian nature around the ability to seduce a man just by suggesting that sex is a thing that you can do to her. If that power was to diminish, they would have nothing.
I laughed out loud at the Rocky Dennis line. I loved the movie and even he met that pretty blind girl. Great points all around
Reminds me of how you can identify when the Californian ''sensitivity / diversity readears'' Intersectional branch had their way, because they insist every remotely intimate scene is re-written with ''affirmative, ongoing consent'' and it's exactly as cringe and fake as you can imagine.
Some Canadian SJWs have been pushing for this too for at least a decade.