Female Ass-Kickers Articles
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Though it's not where I always am, I come from England and I noticed something recently that bothers me. England is way behind when it comes to featuring strong women in the media.
This didn't even occur to me until we were talking about which strong women deserve a place on our new banner for this spot. Not one of us mentioned one from England. You could say Lara Croft, but I don't think she counts as an English example because it wasn't until production of Tomb Raider was handed over to an American company did she stop being a cartoonish big-boobed caricature of a woman and became a good and intelligent role model. It took being moved out of England for her to get a more realistically proportioned body, a deeper personality and finally find an outfit in her wardrobe that had actual pants instead of hotpants.
I have been racking my brains but I can't think of a single British show that featured a strong female lead. Sure there have been what you may consider tough women in supporting roles, but I cant think of even one show with a strong woman as the star.
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Shows like Buffy were pioneers of powerfull yet realistic females but since it ended we've taken a huge step back. Weak women are officially in vouge and strong women are yesterday's news.
In this article I'm going to use 2 popular franchises as examples but the problem is widely spread, these examples are just 2 of many. The one's I'll be using are two very popular franchises for young women. Harry Potter and Twilight.
1st Harry Potter. No, I don't care the main character is a boy. It's the way the women behave in the book. They burst into tears every 5 minutes. You could argue they were under stress over the war, but if that was the case it would affect the boys as well, and its also over silly things too. Eg Hermione bursting into tears because Ron & Harry become friends again after a fight. I don't know about you but I've never in my life met a girl who'd start crying because her friends made up after a fight. A friend used Ginny as an example of a tougher HP girl, but the only point of her was to be in love with the hero. That's all she was for and it showed.
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Opinion by 
Cinders
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3 years ago
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The Women of Resident Evil
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I have realized in my life that there aren't that many hard-core female gamers out there. I wouldn't even describe myself as a hardcore gamer, although I might come close. Regardless, a feminist can't help but appreciate the steps the video game world has taken in order to elevate the status of women. And some may argue that, since the target audience of video games is men, the fact that women are portrayed with brains AND brawn in them is twice as progressive as the portrayal of tough women in movies and television, whose gender audience is often split down the middle, or targeted at women.
Let's travel back twenty odd years to the eighties, or the birth of video games. Nintendo was just starting up, and it's first notable female character was Princess Peach, who at the time didn't even have a name. She was known as simply Princess Toadstool and generally fulfilled the role of "damsel in distress" for the hero, Mario, to rescue. Nintendo, along with its sister and rival game companies, have come a long way since Princess Peach in terms of women in their games.
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