When war broke out in Ukraine, what did the women do?
They fled to Europe. To the welfare and the brothels and the dating apps. While their brothers and husbands and fathers and sons were conscripted at gunpoint and fed into the meat grinder.
The problem with female protagonists in fiction is that they destroy my suspension of disbelief simply by being female. Because when the going gets tough in real life, virtually all women revert to stereotypical female roles and behaviors in order to save themselves. So when Star Wars or Marvel or CDPR wants me to swallow some cocky girl boss as the hero, my rational brain says “this isn’t how women actually behave”.
When men say that they want attractive female protagonists, what they’re really saying is “I will tolerate a female protagonist if she is an idealized woman”. Because if the female hero isn’t idealized - if she’s just an annoying entitled cunt, same as virtually every real life woman - then why am I accepting any woman as the hero? They aren’t heroes in real life. Not in the same way as men. And that’s what is being depicted in this media.
Great points. It's the major reason why I just couldn't get through Wheel of Time, the book series, not the dogshit show no one watched. Robert Jordan did an absolutely excellent top shelf job at portraying accurate female characters. That is to say, they're all arrogant, condescending, rude, demanding, believe they're perfect, constantly belittling men while expecting those same men to fall over themselves in service to women while insulting them when they do, constantly making massive fuckups that make things worse for everyone while blaming the men around them, then spending 9 pages talking about the shade of silk on a dress one of them is wearing. Literally the only female in the entire series that was remotely tolerable was that blonde warrior chick who got pulled from the past.
I think I made it to Crown of Swords before giving up. I understand the narrative structure of having some characters start in a less than ideal place so you can show them evolve into something better in the story. But when I saw I was halfway through the series after literally hundreds of hours (seriously, multiple books that are 40+ hours apiece), and there was zero hint of any of the female characters getting their comeuppance or learning a lesson, and in fact were just continually getting rewarded the bigger cunts they were, I gave up.
I heard the last 3 books that Sanderson cowrote finally start fixing some of the female characters, but that is way too late for my tastes. I usually give most things a chance, whether it's a new anime or show or book. But I don't go in for the "no bro, you gotta stick it out until Episode 163, that's when it really gets good" thing. Women are awful stuck up demanding cunts in real life. I spend my free time enjoying fiction to get away from how awful real life is most of the time. I'm not interested in wasting 400 hours on a book series, or 100 hours in a game, to subjected to be women being realistically terrible nearly the whole time.
You hit the nail on the head about idealized women, and it's likely why anime has become so popular while western TV has faded. Anime still shows idealized women. Female characters that act and look how we wish they did, not how they really are in real life.
I loved the part when Rand broke free from the aes sedai imprisoning him, completely crushing several of their connections to magic in the process. There were very few such satisfying events in the series. Reading all 14 of those books was probably the biggest waste of time I’ve ever committed.
I agree. To be fair, Witcher was never a truly "based" game series, the witches are Mary Sues and much stronger than Geralt. It was only a matter of time until they just kicked him out.
At least canonically sorcerey is a rare talent, and they're not exactly all powerful. They were mostly killed by regular humans when Radovick purged the Lodge.
When war broke out in Ukraine, what did the women do?
You sound like Imp, who at one point claimed that there were zero women left in all of Ukraine because they all left. Actually, judging from videos, the only ones out in public are women and men of ages not vulnerable to conscription.
Because when the going gets tough in real life, virtually all women revert to stereotypical female roles and behaviors in order to save themselves
Russian and Ukrainian women aren't exactly feminist harpies.
if she’s just an annoying entitled cunt, same as virtually every real life woman
TheImp doesn't own the nature of women, or being able to see it, to see the consequences of feminism, to see the differences between men and women. That's just reality.
TheImp takes it too far, and hates women so much that he blames them for every single problem under the sun, and hates them so much he wants humanity (probably only just White people, given he only seems to hate White nationalism) to die out, just to spite women. Granted, many problems are caused by women and feminism, but not all problems. TheImp is insane, but just because he's nuts doesn't mean every observation he holds is false.
When war broke out in Ukraine, what did the women do?
They fled to Europe. To the welfare and the brothels and the dating apps. While their brothers and husbands and fathers and sons were conscripted at gunpoint and fed into the meat grinder.
The problem with female protagonists in fiction is that they destroy my suspension of disbelief simply by being female. Because when the going gets tough in real life, virtually all women revert to stereotypical female roles and behaviors in order to save themselves. So when Star Wars or Marvel or CDPR wants me to swallow some cocky girl boss as the hero, my rational brain says “this isn’t how women actually behave”.
When men say that they want attractive female protagonists, what they’re really saying is “I will tolerate a female protagonist if she is an idealized woman”. Because if the female hero isn’t idealized - if she’s just an annoying entitled cunt, same as virtually every real life woman - then why am I accepting any woman as the hero? They aren’t heroes in real life. Not in the same way as men. And that’s what is being depicted in this media.
Great points. It's the major reason why I just couldn't get through Wheel of Time, the book series, not the dogshit show no one watched. Robert Jordan did an absolutely excellent top shelf job at portraying accurate female characters. That is to say, they're all arrogant, condescending, rude, demanding, believe they're perfect, constantly belittling men while expecting those same men to fall over themselves in service to women while insulting them when they do, constantly making massive fuckups that make things worse for everyone while blaming the men around them, then spending 9 pages talking about the shade of silk on a dress one of them is wearing. Literally the only female in the entire series that was remotely tolerable was that blonde warrior chick who got pulled from the past.
I think I made it to Crown of Swords before giving up. I understand the narrative structure of having some characters start in a less than ideal place so you can show them evolve into something better in the story. But when I saw I was halfway through the series after literally hundreds of hours (seriously, multiple books that are 40+ hours apiece), and there was zero hint of any of the female characters getting their comeuppance or learning a lesson, and in fact were just continually getting rewarded the bigger cunts they were, I gave up.
I heard the last 3 books that Sanderson cowrote finally start fixing some of the female characters, but that is way too late for my tastes. I usually give most things a chance, whether it's a new anime or show or book. But I don't go in for the "no bro, you gotta stick it out until Episode 163, that's when it really gets good" thing. Women are awful stuck up demanding cunts in real life. I spend my free time enjoying fiction to get away from how awful real life is most of the time. I'm not interested in wasting 400 hours on a book series, or 100 hours in a game, to subjected to be women being realistically terrible nearly the whole time.
You hit the nail on the head about idealized women, and it's likely why anime has become so popular while western TV has faded. Anime still shows idealized women. Female characters that act and look how we wish they did, not how they really are in real life.
I loved the part when Rand broke free from the aes sedai imprisoning him, completely crushing several of their connections to magic in the process. There were very few such satisfying events in the series. Reading all 14 of those books was probably the biggest waste of time I’ve ever committed.
I agree. To be fair, Witcher was never a truly "based" game series, the witches are Mary Sues and much stronger than Geralt. It was only a matter of time until they just kicked him out.
At least canonically sorcerey is a rare talent, and they're not exactly all powerful. They were mostly killed by regular humans when Radovick purged the Lodge.
You sound like Imp, who at one point claimed that there were zero women left in all of Ukraine because they all left. Actually, judging from videos, the only ones out in public are women and men of ages not vulnerable to conscription.
Russian and Ukrainian women aren't exactly feminist harpies.
That so?
Imp turns the dial even past 11 and up to like 17, but the core idea behind a lot of his views isn't wrong.
He's nuts and so are his 'ideas', if you can call them that.
TheImp doesn't own the nature of women, or being able to see it, to see the consequences of feminism, to see the differences between men and women. That's just reality.
TheImp takes it too far, and hates women so much that he blames them for every single problem under the sun, and hates them so much he wants humanity (probably only just White people, given he only seems to hate White nationalism) to die out, just to spite women. Granted, many problems are caused by women and feminism, but not all problems. TheImp is insane, but just because he's nuts doesn't mean every observation he holds is false.
Enjoy your girl bosses, homo.
Weren't you calling people stupid just a short while back? Better not show that previous incarnation of yourself this comment.
Oh no, did I do a homophobia?
You are very stupid.