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Is the concept of 3 women becoming crime fighters even radical anymore?


Thinking back to the original series it was a radical thing as most crime fighters were men back then. It made sense, choose 3 attractive women and let them use their feminine wiles. The other show from the same era was Police Woman.

It was fun for the movies as well.

But now? What is so exciting about 3 unattractive women, none of which seem all that physically capable playing crime fighter? The concept is no longer unusual. That coupled with the PC agendas makes it unsurprising that it flopped.

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I wonder why they never try things genders reversed.

There's NOTHING women can do that would be 'radical' these days, but there are plenty of things MEN could do that would.

For example, three heterosexual men wearing colorful dresses and expressing their feminine side as a normal, everyday thing without it being seen as weird or 'gay', would be something no one has ever tried.

Can you even THINK what it would look like, if the original TV show's Angels were replaced by heterosexual men with long hair? If the show or movie was EXACTLY as the original was, except the gender of the angels was changed?

I mean, if gender is just a social construction and there are zillion genders, why are men never allowed to act feminine at all? We all have masculine and feminine sides regardless of the physical body we temporarily inhabit. It's a UNIVERSAL fact: yin and yang always combine to form the whole.

Yin contracts, Yang expands, you can see this everywhere, as the whole Universe fluctuates this way. You breathe in and out, your chest contracts and expands. Same happens with your heart. Space is expansive, so it's Yang, but planets are 'contractions', so they are yin.

I would love to see a movie, where gender in NO WAY dictated ANYTHING, but there would be HUMANS telling us an interesting story. No romance, no gender-based stuff (at least more than necessary), etc.

This is probably way TOO radical for modern times, though.. humanity is not recognized or appreciated anymore, only genders are.

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