a woman can be physically strong without “turning into a man”.
strength of character? how about “nomadland” or “meek’s cutoff”?
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.
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
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?
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
She doesn’t look manly at all. What are you talking about?
spiderwort@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s like they took arnold schwartzenegger’s jaw and transplanted it onto a supermodel/kickboxer.
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.
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.