Stage In The Sky

My wife and I went to see the latest Mission Impossible movie…and aside from the convoluted plot and exposition dumps where characters took turns saying one line at a time (making you fully aware that you’re watching a movie)…one thing you’ll notice about the film is the proliferation of women playing roles that were traditionally (realistically) held by men. 

Seriously, the US president is Angela Bassett, the Secret Service agent who springs into action and takes down a bad guy is a petite Asian woman, the commander of an aircraft carrier is a Guile-looking white woman, and one of the main female soldiers on the submarine is a cringy tom-boyish lesbian in a tank top who acts more masculine than the men around her. 

And these aren’t just background characters. Every time they’re on screen, they play the most prominent role over every other character. It’s in your face. As if, “You’re going to watch me whether you like it or not.” 

I’m not saying it’s impossible for women to hold these traditionally male roles. But as I’m going to explain, it does ruin the magic of movies when you constantly have to work to suspend your disbelief. 

POINTS DISCUSSED: 

1. How Are they “Forcing” the Characters on Us? 
2. The Insufferable Personalities 
3. Feminists Deliberately Hijack Male Programming 
4. How Disney RUINED DareDevil 
5. Why We Don’t Care about Female Superheroes 
6. At Least Make Your Female Leaders an Inspiration to Your Male Audience! 
7. Is Hollywood Making these Characters to Inspire Change? 
8. Do We Really Need Representation in Films? 
9. Charlie’s Angels Proves Feminine Action Characters Work 

What disbelief? Well, what are the odds that women are constantly and consistently outperforming and out-competing men to be the ones in charge when it comes to war, military, crime scenes, hostage negotiations, rescue operations, combat situations, etc. 

Not to mention, culturally, we’re getting sick and tired of male traits being demonized (like competitiveness, aggressive, assertive, alpha, territorial, possessive, defiant, resistant to change)…but celebrated and applauded if it’s a woman exhibiting these traits (like the girl boss and Mary Sues).  

And then you have people like Tomi Lahren blaming men for being “feminized” all because they listened to what the culture’s been telling them and dialed back all that traditional masculinity. 

How Are they “Forcing” the Characters on Us? 

And why do I say Hollywood is “forcing” these characters on us? Because they know good and well that this isn’t what we’ve come to see. They KNOW it! 

Over the past few years, DisneyPlus and Marvel’s M-She-U has put out a slew of TV shows where you have masculine female characters for the main leads. Echo, The Acolyte, Ahsoka, She-Hulk, and even shows like “Batwoman”…just masculine female leads. They performed horribly, leading to cancellations or no 2^nd season renewals.

Thus, Hollywood knows the audience isn’t interested. So, what do they do? They hijack the shows and movies Men really want to see (like Mission Impossible) and insert the Masculine Female Characters there.  

And if you got suckered into going to the theaters, you can’t skip the scene, you have to just power through it. 

It’d be like if you went to an NBA game and after the 1^st Quarter, instead of the men coming back out to play, they let the female players play the 1^st Quarter of their WNBA game before the fellas could start their 2^nd Quarter. 

That’s how it feels watching these Hollywood movies and TV shows. Coincidentally, Critical Drinker coined the term “Girlboss Fatigue” and I’m right there with him.  

In programs like Mission Impossible, Captain America New World, or even biblical stuff like Amazon’s “House of David,” while you do get what you came to see, they also force you to watch the Girl Boss or the overemphasized message of how Men simply couldn’t have succeeded without women.

After watching Mission Impossible, my wife said that this might be Tom Cruise’s last movie starring as the main agent and that future Mission Impossibles might have a female lead agent, just like their push to try and make 007 a woman.  

This led to a rant about how Hollywood’s constantly coming out with spin-offs where you have female versions of the originals. Such as Oceans 8, Ballerina, CBS’s The Equalizer starring Queen Latifah, and even the female main characters in Viking Valhalla where you have… *sighs * a black female queen in the middle of Norway.

Almost all of these female characters are predictable because Hollywood is writing them as if these women are men.  

And invariably, some man is going to challenge their authority. The woman is going to be defiant and thanks to the plot, turns out she’s either going to be correct or emerge victorious over men. 

Also, the Female Leads are almost always unprofessional, rude, overcompensatingly masculine (caricatures), and they unrealistically don’t make sense. 

When I say they “don’t make sense,” I mean it’s simply not believable that they’d rise to the rank of detective, commander, or generic person-in-charge, given their age, stature, and/or appearance. 

Such as when you have the super attractive looks of a slender super model but somehow manage to take down six Marines with no weapons. 

And yeah, you can bring up how Hollywood (and Netflix) constantly “blackwashing” characters by changing the race of white characters like “The Little Mermaid” and I think it’s annoying too. But this essay is about the Masculine Female Characters, so we’re going to stay on point.  

The Insufferable Personalities 

Another classic example is this big-faced woman from Jason Statham’s movie “The Beekeeper.” My wife is apparently a huge fan of Jason Statham and I grew up on the “Transporter” movies, so we were optimistic when we gave “The Beekeeper” a shot. We watched this movie to see JASON STATHAM!

After 40 minutes, we had enough and turned it off. Jason Statham was awesome. Problem is, they were giving too much airtime to this Big-Faced Woman that it was annoying.  

That’s not why we wanted to watch “The BeeKeeper”. 

The Woman was portraying an FBI agent in which her mom was one of the first victims in the movie. So, she had a vested interest to get justice. I understand. 

The problem was, her personality and dialogue was so insufferable! And for an “FBI Agent,” she was so unrealistic and juvenile that it felt like a 14-year-old who’s never met a real FBI agent had written it. She kept dropping F-Bombs, she was rude and discourteous to other law enforcement and authority figures. And even the way she lived was unbelievable.  

There’s a shot of her sleeping in her home and the place was a messy wreck, comparable to a college student who just started living on her own, like a scene out of hoarders.  

We’re supposed to believe this female character is a competent FBI agent who rose through the ranks, completed the proper training, and has the right amount of experience needed to be throwing her weight around other law enforcement agencies?

Feminists Deliberately Hijack Male Programming 

Going back to my wife’s question of “why can’t they create a new female led franchise? Why do they keep making female versions of already established franchises?”  

The answers lie in the questions. Because they’re already established.

Let’s be honest. The general audience, the main demographic for romantic comedies is women. No one’s complaining about that. No man is getting dragged to those movies and then walking out complaining about how those movies were clearly catered for women.  

Or if they do, they’ll get hit with an: “Yes. You’re correct. These movies are for women.” 

For instance, we saw a trailer for an upcoming movie called “Bride Hard”. It’s clearly an action comedy tailored for women. If that movie has a bunch of masculine females in traditionally male roles, I doubt anyone’s going to complain because the audience is for women! Let them enjoy it! 

But when you have a comic-book superhero movie like the rebooted X-Men films starting with First Class, and you see the story revolving around Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique character, with her stupid line in Dark Phoenix, “The women are always saving the men around here. You might want to think about changing the name to X-Women.” 

Every boy was a fan of the X-Men in the 90s! We loved it. The opening theme was fire. But as we played on the playgrounds, no one was running around talking about how they wanted to be Mystique or Jean Gray.  

The main characters we cared about were Wolverine, Cyclops, and Gambit. Coincidentally, they were also the most masculine characters on the show, (same with Raphael from TMNT)  If we did talk about the female characters, it was usually because of their traditionally feminine traits…like Rogue and Storm being smoking hot. I know…we boys are weird.

Thus, it’s not enough for Feminists to stick to their programs that’s tailored for women…instead, they see what Men are into, and then make it their business to hijack those mediums to promote their agendas (the MESSAGE of gender equality, breakdown of gender roles, and demonizing traditional masculinity). 

It’s everywhere. Even in sports, which is why Taylor Swift got booed at the last Super Bowl. We don’t like it. We don’t respect it. 

And the main reason why they booed Taylor Swift, the main reason why I’m writing this essay…is because it’s not just one or two shows…it’s EVERYWHERE!  

Like, the first time you do it. Okay. Alright. Interesting concept. Sure, fun. But if it keeps happening over and over again, that’s when you know it’s become so blatantly obvious.  

The perfect example is with “DareDevil…” 

How Disney RUINED DareDevil 

Netflix’s DareDevil had a solid fan base. Mostly male audience. When it aired on Netflix, the show was already diverse with amazing female leads in the form of Karen Page and even Vanessa. 

Then…Disney+ took it over. And again, I say words like “hijacked” and “forced on us” because  

Disney+ knew what the predominantly male audience wanted to see. It’s proof that Hollywood knows! The trailers they released were  replete with the fist-flying action and choreography that had us on the edge of our seats. The trailers looked awesome and built much anticipation. 

But then the show came out and turns out, my worst fears came true. Karen Page was hardly in it. They turned the originally supportive helpmate of Vanessa into a Girl Boss who was also having an affair on Wilson and acted like she was justified into the cheating. 

And the Writing of every single episode poured so much focus and emphasis on feelings instead of facts. People are either crying or speaking the Screenwriters stupid leftist philosophies as if they’re saying something super profound and groundbreaking.  

They also pushed the notion of therapy which is commonly becoming a major feminist talking point because it’s all about getting men to conform to what women want. 

Daredevil literally saved a therapist’s life, and later, the “strong and independent” therapist she had to make it clear she saved her own life. 

Tragically, I couldn’t even finish the season of Daredevil Born again because of the DEI where all these emotional strong female characters took up more screen time than the characters and action I wanted to see. 

For example…in Episode 5, we see DareDevil’s Matt Murdoch caught in the middle of a bank robbery. Two things happened that made you keenly aware that this is a Disney+ show.  

Why We Don’t Care about Female Superheroes 

The 1^st thing that happened, was the bank manager is a close relative of the female character Kamala Kahn (Ms. Marvel). They act like this is some kind of easter egg, but really…Men like me deliberately refuse to see a single second of Ms. Marvel.

Why? Because we’re men! Since childhood, it’s been every boy’s dream to be a superhero for the women we love! No one likes to talk about this, but it’s the truth. You can crap on the damsel in distress all you want, but swooping in to save the day is why men want to be husbands and fathers.

However, if you reverse it…you’d be hard-pressed to find a guy who dreams about their women coming to rescue them (aside from submitting to her in a sexual fantasy). For the most part, that would be emasculating.

That’s not to say we hate female superheroes or action characters. There’s a lot of fans of Wonder Woman, for example. But we don’t care about her the same way we do about Superman or Batman. I’d argue the main reason why Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman did well at the box offices was because Captain Marvel was part of a story line that people were already invested in, and Wonder Woman piqued our curiosity.

Thus, it makes sense why female led superheroes would mostly appeal to children and a small minority of grown women who are: 

• Indoctrinated to think DEI is Normal Reality 
• They secretly wish they were men 
• They Reject the roles of traditional women 
• They’re just born as straight tomboys. 

So, there is an audience for these kinds of characters. But it’s not for everyone. And the more you force it on everyone, the more you’ll build resentment for these types of characters and the audience enabling producers to keep green-lighting these shows. 

Yes, men have egos. But, so do women. Which is why they keep putting females in these traditionally male roles in the first place. Seriously, if you think to yourself that it’s not fair that there aren’t enough women in leadership roles, that’s your ego talking!

If you look at a show like “Sons of Anarchy” where all the bikers are all men and then get mad because there aren’t any female bikers, that’s your ego talking. (interestingly enough, this show produced some of the best female characters I’ve ever seen in Tara and Gemma, these ladies weren’t weak pushovers)

We KNOW it’s your ego, because you only get mad about roles and positions of power, authority and seem glamorous. You don’t hear women talking about the lack of female plumbers, roofers, and trash workers. 

Instead, they keep making female versions of awesome male characters and as “Nerodic” talks about in his latest, they’re losing money by the buckets. 

At Least Make Your Female Leaders an Inspiration to Your Male Audience! 

The 2nd Issue with that specific Daredevil Episode, is that the lead detective in charge of handling the hostage negotiation for the NYPD is this young, Asian woman wearing a leather jacket as if she lives life by her own rules.

Really? There was no one else? There was no other man (or realistically professional woman) more qualified, with greater experience to handle this hostage crisis?  

And why the flip is she wearing a leather jacket? If you’re going to have a female in this kind of role, can you at least make her more professional and give her a personality that would actually inspire the men to respect, look up to, and follow her?

Not a woman who clearly has a chip on her shoulder (like every other stunning and brave female leader who will at one point or another imply that they overcame some adversity for being a woman in their position). 

Because, news flash, men don’t respect that. EVERYONE has had to overcome some sort of adversity we had to overcome due to our race, gender, height etc. Talking about it as if we deserve an award for doing it isn’t cool. It makes you look weak, as if the true source of your strength hinges on the approval and validation of others.

If you want people to respect your “masculine females” then you got to go all the way with it. Masculine Men know there are no safety nets. No one owes us anything, not understanding, not acceptance, and not their pity.  And we don’t care! Eff your pity! (Jennifer Garner’s Elektra was a great example of this)

So, Men rise above and overcome without complaining to society. The only ones we b**** about are the jerks who claimed they always supported us as if to take credit for our success.

If you want an inspirational Masculine Female, give her flaws. And I’m not talking about personality quirks. But let her mess up, be wrong, ashamed, and ruin things, realizing she made mistakes throughout the movie, but in the end, works hard to make up for those mistakes. Sandra Bullock is “Miss Congeniality” is a perfect example of this!

But no…Hollywood can’t have that. She has to be perfect. She can’t have any of the traits everyone realistically expects from women, because that would ruin the delusion they’re trying to push, that Women are better than men. 

“Hang on, Rock! What are you complaining about? The chief of police was a man. Wilson Fisk is a man, and he was the mayor. So, why are you getting all bent out of shape because a few traditionally male roles happen to be women?”

Good points. Bringing me to the topic of… 

Is Hollywood Making these Characters to Inspire Change? 

When I watched the latest Mission Impossible movie and saw that the commander of a flipping $3 billion dollar Navy Aircraft Carrier was this blonde woman…I almost wanted to pull out my phone in the theater and Google how many admirals and captains are women.  

I checked…it’s less than 7% and the first Chief of Naval Operations was Admiral Lisa Franchetti, who was appointed by Biden. While I would say that’s something to be proud of, Biden is also the person who nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. 

Ketanji Brown Jackson couldn’t define what a woman was…and yet, she’s on the Supreme Court. It’s difficult not to call them DEI hires because I’m sure she and Franchetti have made remarkable accomplishments…but, come on. 

“Well, maybe Hollywood is making these high-ranking positions women to inspire women to rise up to those positions?!” 

Why? Seriously, let’s say that’s true.  

Why would you want to concentrate your efforts on inspiring women to be boss babes, career driven leaders, masculine, strong and independent , instead of the traditional kind, nurturing, feminine, self-sacrificing mothers and wives damn near every man pre-2008 was raised to love and desire? 

Also, are the characters actually inspiring change? I’m not convinced it is. And it’s mainly because of the hypocrisies between Hollywood and the Social Justice Movements.  

The rise of Victimhood culture contradicts the notion of a woman being Strong and Independent. The rise of women saying they want a man who makes 6 figures or more contradicts the notion of equality. The rise of demonizing conservatives contradicts the notion of tolerance and acceptance. 

My point is…Hollywood’s agenda of showing us how better life is with Women in positions of leadership isn’t working. It’s not working in real life marriages, romance, military, and arguably not even in politics. 

It’s only making the audience more frustrated and annoyed because we go to movies to escape reality, not be reminded of what Leftists and Liberals are fighting for. Why do you think programs like “Yellowstone” turned out to be such a big hit?

“Hang on, Rock! Yellowstone has Beth Dutton who’s a strong masculine woman.” 

No. Beth Dutton is a domineering b**** with a whole bunch of mental problems. That doesn’t make her “masculine.” And of course, the character works because there’s a lot of modern women who can relate to her.

And that’s the point, innit? Relatable characters, flaws and all.

The phrase, “Art imitates life” has been around for generations. Only recently, have humans decided it should be the other way around, that life should imitate art.  

The problem with that notion is that you’re alienating people from your audience who disagrees with your perspective or outlook on life. And once upon a time, I’d argue that Hollywood films and mediums were more diverse than what it is today. And by “diverse” I mean diversity of thought. 

Now…it’s an echo chamber of mostly liberal leftist ideologies, and every once in a while, can you inject a healthy dose of traditional values, much to the shock and chagrin of the Hollywood community. 

Do We Really Need Representation in Films? 

“But Rock, we need representation!?” 

Why?  

Think about it. Do you really care about seeing someone who looks like you in a specific role or title? If you do, why? Because someone told you? Do you really think that unless you see a black man in the role of president, you or other black people won’t aspire to be president?

When “Captain Marvel” came out, there was only one die-hard fan who absolutely obsessed over the character, and it made sense why she did. She’s a lesbian who literally started taking treatments to change their gender. I can see someone like her was glad to have “representation” because people like her are rare. 

And that’s the point. It’d be one thing if you only saw these characters in a couple of films, but if they’re appearing so often as if to say these kinds of people are normal…no. 

Recently, I saw this meme that made me smirk. 

The above meme is all the women thinking they need someone who looks like them.  

But the bottom meme shows how all of us young men in our teens identified with Goku, a supposed white/Asian Saiyan. 

Even with characters like Batman, Superman, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Zorro, the Three Musketeers…a lot of us men see ourselves in those characters even though we ourselves are not white. 

With Goku in particular, or personally Ken and Ryu from Street Fighter, can be anyone. I never once look at these superheroes and said, “I wish he was black!” or “I can’t do anything great like that because I haven’t seen someone who looks like me doing it.” 

Although…now that I think about it, I have seen how a lot of black people are inspired to be thugs, gangsters, rappers, and entertainers because that’s all they see on TV. 

“SEE! It’s because of their representation! You just proved that Representation does matter!” 

Nah…We had a black president for 8 years and Black Culture got considerably worse during that time. Don’t try and take credit for the devil’s work. Let’s move on.  

“No no no! I want to know what you mean?! Are you calling Obama the devil!?” 

No…but I am saying anyone or anything who encourages you NOT to obey and live by Bible principles is Satanic. Click here, if you’re ready for that conversation. Let’s move on. 

Charlie’s Angels Proves Feminine Action Characters Work 

How quickly we forget the classics where you could have a Female led franchise that was originally written with female leads, and it worked. 

The Charlies Angels from the 70s and even the early 2000s movies were beloved, entertaining, and endearing because even though they fought crime as members of a private detective agency…they still had the charms, beauty, and sophistication of traditional women. 

They were sexy and they knew it. They knew men desired them and it wasn’t a problem. They used that to their advantage. They didn’t make themselves more butch and unsightly just so men could get no satisfaction in seeing them. 

The “Charlies Angels” of 2000 with Cameron Diaz made over $250 million at the box office. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the franchise, but I couldn’t deny it was entertaining, and the women were everything men loved. They were fun, beautiful, intelligent, and…they also seemed to love men. 

That seems to be one of the biggest disconnect with today’s Female Action Characters. Not only do they not love Men, but they go out of their way to make it known that they don’t prioritize men, or that their love for other women will come first.

For instance, take the Charlies Angels of 2019. Just looking at this picture should tell you everything you need to know.

And before you get mad and call me misogynistic or say that I’m just jaded…you can hear it directly from the horse’s mouth. The women who made these films and their characters do not like men. They don’t respect men. They chant “the future if female” and think the world would be a lot better if Men followed women. 

The director Elizabeth Banks famously blasted Steven Spielberg and accused him of never making a movie with a female lead… 

She must of never head of “The Color Purple.” Which goes to show how deluded these people are in their echo chambers with a lack knowledge of the real world.

For example, you have Julie Delpy here talking about how…*sighs* she wishes she was black instead of a white woman because there’s nothing worse than being a woman in her business…  

Kieran Culkin trying to keep it together in that clip is hilarious.  

Last example and then I’ll stop. But here, you have Jennifer Lawrence saying that nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie before her appearance in Hunger Games. 

All this goes to show that: 

1) Representation of empowered strong female leads in TV shows hasn’t changed reality. It’s just enabled women to dig deeper into their victimhood and thus lose what respect men had for them. 

2) It’s encouraging Women to believe it’s better to see themselves as Oppressed than Powerful 

3) It’s encouraging Women to reject their own femininity and deliberately make themselves unappealing to men…which invariably leads to less marriages and families.

And with that, I’ll just leave you with Critical Drinkers discussion about Tomb Raider…which was clearly an action movie with a female lead, years before the Hunger Games.