In fact, the problem isn’t their sex; the problem is their portrayal as sex objects. Objects aren’t convincing protagonists. Subjects act while objects are acted upon, so reducing a woman action hero to an object, even sporadically, diminishes her ability to believably carry a storyline.
Caroline Heldman in “The Hunger Games, Hollywood, and Fighting Fucktoys.”
Interesting blog post. I thought this explanation of why female super hero movies (the author uses the more general action, but two out of three of the examples are “super hero” types; female super heroes also get this treatment more often and more obviously than non “super hero” action hero ladies) made sense.
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