It’s in my dvd list.

If women want a less objectified view of themselves in movies, they should write them, not negatively critique a trying male’s view.

In the early 40s, for lack of male writers who were off playing with the toys of war, women were writing the scripts.  A completely different kind of woman emerged, one of sterner stuff, intelligent, while still being attractive, fashionably dressed.

Men returned from the war, sent women writers home, and wrote their fantasies about women with pretty little heads and amazing bodies who shouldn’t ever worry because the man in her life will always save her from harm.

My Facebook wall is now full of women and their successes historically because I am so incredibly sick of first woman this and first woman that, as if we haven’t always been this and that, if it’s what we really wanted.  

There’s always another way!

Even military women whine and cry over the way men treat them.....or treated them while on active duty.  The ones who’ve had children are especially puzzling.  

The Women Marines were different when I joined in 1963; we were women first and freeing men to go fight ie. play with expensive toys.  Since the 70s women have been itching to play and take their toys away,....every mother knows how that’s going to go.  

“The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.”  Commanding Officer’s wife, had that on a plaque in her living room, and it seems profoundly true all these years later.

Some jerk in my Airwing group asked just how many women officers are pilots.  Of course, all pilots are officers first, then apply to become pilots, so there were flippant responses, but he was after more, and it felt like ridicule was coming.  Every day for two weeks, I added the photo and story of a military female pilot, decorated, serving, completing missions, a couple died for the country.  A number of the members posted how good to go they were, having served with them.  It was quite the education for me as well.  I’ve not kept up with the specifics, just vaguely aware.  I stopped when he said, “okay”. Overwhelming with facts is not a bad activity for me in my smoked filled valley, threatened by a pandemic.

Just don’t turn off the internet!

Wait, I’ve a shelf of books I need to read......yeah, I’m easily bored.  

I’ll have to get back to you about Blade Runner, but men, as a psych study read years ago claimed, look at a woman’s face to see if she likes what she sees.  If she does, he thinks she’s pretty.  Nothing quite like the eyes for honesty.

"In the early 40s, for lack of male writers who were off playing with the toys of war, women were writing the scripts.  A completely different kind of woman emerged, one of sterner stuff, intelligent, while still being attractive, fashionably dressed.

Men returned from the war, sent women writers home, and wrote their fantasies about women with pretty little heads and amazing bodies who shouldn’t ever worry because the man in her life will always save her from harm."

Is that objectively true, though?  It's just that statement seems remarkably low resolution and doesn't ring true.  I'm not trying to be contrarian for the sake of it, I ask the question in good faith.

Since it is possible to go through every movie since the very first one and cherry pick examples to support our positions, some limitation is required.

https://www.insider.com/most-popular-movie-every-year-2017-8#1933-king-kong-3

Scrolling through that list doesn't clearly suggest I'm right or you are right.

I will say the rise of the mary sue has been annoying AF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

It’s not that hard to see the differences between Katherine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe and Angelina Jolie.

Women writers are better at realistic women than the fantasies of war weary men or their pansy perfection of women.

Liberation victimized women and made men the villains.  Fortunately, most women didn’t succumb.

Why compare Marilyn Monroe or Katherine Hepburn to Angelina Jolie?  Why not, Michelle Pfieffer or Kristina Hendricks?

Of course women might be better at writing female characters, generally, but does that mean they cannot write male characters?  Can men not write female characters?

Or perhaps, as the great Jordan Peterson suggests, we must view things through the eyes of minorities and the highest resolution minority you can find is the individual.  Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein.  Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter.

The more I think of Dr. Peterson's observation, the more convinced I become that he is correct;  deal with individuals as much as possible.  Tribalism is low resolution and generally used for nefarious purposes.