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I have to agree about the "men with breasts" comment. That's one of the reasons why I don't like watching shows like NCIS. They had one episode in which Zeva, the Mossad agent, gets hit by a big burly man, with a blow that would have put a good sized MAN on his back with a broken jaw, let alone a woman. But Zeva just takes the blow and delivers one of her own-not NEARLY as devastating in power-that levels the guy. I said to my wife "THAT's why I hardly watch TV now." If you're casting a female in a heroic role, fine, but you need to do it with a degree of reality that won't leave people going "Yeah, right." after a scene like that. People are so anxious to be egalitarian about everything (which in and of itself is stupid) that they make women into unrealistic characters. And THAT ruins a lot of good fiction.
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