[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Not sure if it's exactly the same as what you are saying, but here's an article from the BBC website that I think makes a similar point - Bodyguard 'airbrushing reality' with powerful women portrayal

Yes, basically, it's what I was saying, and it's so far away from any sort of reality that it's sucking the enjoyment from it. Sure, we all watch TV, read books, as a form of escapism. We suspend reality, and solve murders, enjoy romances, whatever. But this sort of so-far-to-the-nth SJW placement, of women in jobs that they don't normally hold, in the numbers that they don't normally have, is just...I don't know, off-putting.

It's like the barrage of female characters who can ALL hold their own in a physical fight with a man that outweighs them by 100lbs or more. It's patently absurd. Sure...a trained, lightweight woman can hold her own against an untrained man, to some degree but if a 225-lb man picks up a 90lb woman and slams her into the ground, or a wall, she's NOT going to be kicking his ass. I mean, I studied martial arts, I served in the military, and yes, in my lifetime, I've been in physical altercations. You can be as strong as you can be for your body weight and size, but there are limitations. I watch these shows, where pretty much every chick on the planet punches some guy, flips him, yadda-yadda, and I wonder how many young women of the witless variety are going to try to punch some guy--and get away with it--who will find out just how much vast difference there is in F=MA.

Sure, I get it, Hollywood--in all its faces, whether the UK or Bollywood or California--invests in wishful thinking, and showing people what they think "should be," like, depicting the Met as being dominated by women, but it's not.

{shrug}. Whatever. I long ago realized that expecting Hollywood to make shows or movies that I liked was an absurd, unrealistic thought. Everything is either so idiotic it's not watchable (comedies, largely), or the ubiquitous nonsense (cops or other public servants living in multi-million-dollar beach homes or penthouses and so on with vapid plots that you can predict, two minutes in) or the pestilence that is Reality TV.

I guess being deluged with shows that depict 100% women, in male-dominated roles, is just one more silliness inflicted upon us by people who think that they're all entitled to lecture us about life, politics, economics and climate, even though pre-discovery, most of these thespians were highly-trained waiters and waitresses. Why anyone pays attention to what any of them say or do is...a ponderment. At best, a ponderment.

Hitch