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Looks boring and uninspired and tries to cash in on the "girl warrior" fad. Unlikely to pay off.
shareGirl Warriors (such as Xena) when done right can be fun. This however is a cash grab and it's not being done right.
If they had the bravery to do a traditional older Professor Van Helsing, the kindly doctor who defeats Dracula with brains instead of brawn, and made that female, THAT I would pay to see.
Girl warriors, In my opinion has always been boring. I did like Ripley in Alien and the Resident Evil series but this? This is just lame.
Remember when writers made women realistically intelligent and witty instead of unbelievably brawny and man-like? Oh those were the days.
Such an era never actually existed. So no, I do not "Remember" what you are talking about. Nor do I find particular warriors "boring" simply for being female. A warrior is merely that, a warrior. Anything else is hideous gender bias.
How are perpetual virginity and deliberate and willful world culture ignorance working out for you?
Even Shakespeare had female warriors, but that would require literacy...
And of course there is the Poetic Edda and Prose edda (Norse history and mythology), which date back to the pre-thirteenth century, the Ancient Chinese legend of Mulan, The Gaelic Queen Boudicca, the exploits of Saint Joan of Arc (now Catholic Canon), several Greek myths...
Do you mean that narrow time-window of the late nineteenth century specifically in England and the US because even that is compromised by the works of Baroness Orczy and various pulp authors as well as films like Anne of the Indies...
Kindly don't answer that. I don't have patience for that much insecurity in a scant few words from one who suffers from what psychologists call Recency Illusion.
Have you retired from antagonizing people on the Penny Dreadful board since that series ended in a whimper?
The person you responded to makes a valid point: It's no victory for women when "strong female characters" are literally written no differently than men and simply gender-swapped. The idea that women have to disown femininity and become masculine to be "strong" is ridiculous and insulting.
Aside from that, you got one thing right -- the female warrior societies of antiquity were myths. The Viking shield maidens, the Amazon warriors, etc., are just stories. They're fun, but not when they give rise to several years' worth of movies and TV shows featuring 110-pound women regularly beating the hell out of heavily muscled men more than twice their body weight.
We've gotten to the point where it's impolitic to acknowledge the reality of sexual dimorphism, which is absurd. An entire generation of young girls is growing up on this stuff, and it's not going to work out well for anyone when they inevitably take it seriously.
Pro tip: Jettison words like "gender bias" and maybe don't lead with an immediate ad hominem if you're going to pretend to take the intellectual high road.
Excellent post, Xystophoros.
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