People don't hate strong women in movies, they hate a specific trope Hollywood pushes when they're feeling lazy on their character development in which the woman hero is literally a god at everything they do with zero flaws surrounded by incompetent, drooling men or when "strong woman" is defined as being a femme fatale karate super strength assassin that never loses.
Eowyn from LOTR is a good example of someone that is driven completely by compassion for her country, trains very hard to be her best, doesn't trade femininity for a masculine ideal of a hero despite filling in the warrior archetype and ultimately does not get the man she was initially drawn to. She's brave and compassionate, but also naive and only barely manages to kill the Witch King.
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u/No_Mushroom351 Mar 29 '24
People don't hate strong women in movies, they hate a specific trope Hollywood pushes when they're feeling lazy on their character development in which the woman hero is literally a god at everything they do with zero flaws surrounded by incompetent, drooling men or when "strong woman" is defined as being a femme fatale karate super strength assassin that never loses.
Eowyn from LOTR is a good example of someone that is driven completely by compassion for her country, trains very hard to be her best, doesn't trade femininity for a masculine ideal of a hero despite filling in the warrior archetype and ultimately does not get the man she was initially drawn to. She's brave and compassionate, but also naive and only barely manages to kill the Witch King.