Comment on In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is?

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• spiderwort@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Ripley. Tall. Squarejawed. Ripped. Kicks ass constantly. Can drive a big robot loader thingy, to the impressment of the alpha dudes.

  Can you think of any examples of movie portrayal of strong women that did not involve turning into a man?

  Surely it exists.

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  • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeeeah, adding my voice to the "WTF you on about" choir, but since this is a fun exercise anyway:
    -10 Cloverfield Lane
    -The African Queen
    -The Apartment
    -As Good As It Gets
    -Bumblebee
    -Coraline
    -Dune
    -Fargo
    -Interstellar

    Yeah, ok, look, I'm just looking at my DVD shelf and getting more confused about WTH you're talking about every couple of entries. This is a very weird hot take.

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  • sqw@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a woman can be physically strong without “turning into a man”.

    strength of character? how about “nomadland” or “meek’s cutoff”?

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    • spiderwort@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have not seen either of those.

      But you see what I mean, right? A strong female character invariably starts looking like a man. Which is, of course, a cheap shortcut on the part of the writer.

      What are feminine expressions of strength?

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      • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        She doesn’t look manly at all. What are you talking about?

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      • sqw@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        musculature is not solely masculine, but if that’s the association for you, it makes sense that you feel a woman with muscles “starts looking like a man”. a similar circular reasoning would be arrived at if you simply considered strength itself to be a masculine trait.

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