Emily Blunt Rails Against ‘Strong Female Lead’ Label: ‘It’s the Worst Thing Ever‘ and ‘I’m Bored’ of It

suib26 · 2022-11-15T22:42:02+00:00

Nice to see some women calling it out. I wish they would address the glorification of female on male violence as female empowerment too.

Probably one of the most problematic tropes I see in strong female leads movies is shots to the groin, sometimes in really sadistic ways too and it's very uncomfortable to watch. Basically glorifying women sexual assaulting men.

Also the fact the poorly written men who are basically only there to be sexist caricatures rather then fleshed out characters in order to perpetuate the narrative "men are bad, women are good".

pappo4ever · 2022-11-15T23:54:41+00:00

Funny thing is, she is almost the only believable strong female lead, together perhaps with Sigourney Weaver. Perhaps that's why she's so tired of it.

silvrado · 2022-11-16T02:46:36+00:00

Brave woman, but this kinda talk makes her a target for cancelling.

aries0413 · 2022-11-15T22:59:18+00:00

She realizes no one wants to watch a blue haired Karen.. Mary sue themselves through a entire movie.

Goouteb12342 · 2022-11-16T03:26:27+00:00

I always knew Emily Blunt was a real one

Edge of Tomorrow and Sicario gang, stand up!

_BlueShark87 · 2022-11-15T21:26:38+00:00

Most viewers also find it annoying. I actually liked Shuri’s character from BP 2 because she had character development, emotions, and was vulnerable. Unlike most characters cough cough she hulk cough cough.

TheMexicanJuan · 2022-11-16T09:15:40+00:00

Not mincing words. She’s always been blunt

2022-11-16T05:06:57+00:00

female actors who have spoken out against the “strong female lead”

Emily Blunt

Tatiana Maslany (article mentioned her name too)

Not being sarcastic or something, Can anyone mention other names, I genuinely want to know those. I tried to search on the internet, all I'm getting is the article of Emily Blunt.

Morden013 · 2022-11-16T04:57:49+00:00

Atomic Blonde is a good example of that.

Charlize Theron fighting off a bunch of massive guys, killing them and walking away. I stopped watching at that point.

SaltyDawg1966 · 2022-11-16T11:54:29+00:00

Ask my wife, I despise a ‘man’ who physically abuses a female. With this said:

I really think it’s cool when we see a female lead cop show where a 130lb female cop throws a 200+lb man across the hood of a car… like he’s a toddler. The realism is 🤯! (Sarcasm)

These displays give young girls, growing into womanhood, a false sense of reality and a skewed perspective of their true physical abilities. Pound for pound, women are no physical match for men. Disagree? How many battered men’s shelters have you heard of or seen? (The fact that women’s shelters are needed is nauseating. Men need to do better! ).

The old show, The Closer, was a perfect example of a strong female lead where Kyra Sedgwick’s character routinely outwitted her male suspects. Much more realistic and a far better example for both young girls and boys to follow.

Just my opinion.

Strigon_7 · 2022-11-16T10:38:33+00:00

I knew I liked her for a reason.

Thomjones · 2022-11-16T13:52:04+00:00

She right. Ripley from Alien was a "strong female lead" and all that was done was not specifying the characters gender in the script.

WRAD120 · 2022-11-16T10:05:21+00:00

Hmm perhaps she can redeem herself.

EvidencePlz · 2022-11-16T05:15:06+00:00

This is one of the many reasons why I don't have a TV and cable TV subscriptions.

I don't subscribe to any video streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.

I only buy movies (and play them on my PC) that have absolutely no gynocentrism, feminism etc and are based on real life stories of real alpha men. For example: 1. Das Boot and 2. Men of Honour. I watch these films repeatedly whenever I want to be entertained.

I don't buy and listen to pop and romantic songs. I only buy and listen to heavy metal and rap songs that revolve around alpha men. Example: Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden etc.

I'm a proud MGTOW for life.

Personal_Ice2327 · 2022-11-16T06:51:45+00:00

Who is this..is she a politician of some sort

djc_tech · 2022-11-16T16:14:21+00:00

I liked her character in Sicario. A strong but believable female character.

H1mik0_T0g4 · 2022-11-16T23:13:58+00:00

Women do the most basic shit ever and call it "empowerment"

ebony-mori · 2022-11-17T02:42:38+00:00

I seriously hate the pandering nonsense and terrible writing.

If you want to create a strong female character, she doesn't have to be able to take down 7 highly trained, armed male soldiers with nothing but her fists and the occasional kick.

That or her entire personality is engulfed by pure pick-me energy, where anything even the slightest thing feminine is somehow repulsive to her, and every woman around her is a ditsy, catty blonde.

They're either a backwards cap and overall wearing mechanic that hates women and loves 'hanging with the guys', or She-Hulk. Little in between.

H1mik0_T0g4 · 2023-07-15T02:03:13+00:00

It is really annoying to see how female empowerment is portrayed in movies. It really does just boil down to women assaulting men who are all sexist because that's just how men are, that female lead not having any flaws and even when she does do something awful it's forgiven pretty easily, any one woman is clearly stronger than all men, and women just overall being a arrogant and petty and childish. Usually towards men. That's how female empowerment is portrayed now. Now, I can obviously understand if these traits are simply a part of the female lead's character. That's an exception. And I know similar things have been done with male leads and no one batted an eye. The issue with that argument though is Male Empowerment wasn't the goal of those male leads being the way they were. With female leads, it seems like those traits are what's commonly used to represent a female lead as strong for some reason. The problem is the way those traits are used. And using them as a form of gender empowerment is not the way. There are movies that portray good female leads, strong ones at that. It's just a shame that so many directors and writers do it so poorly.

Title	Emily Blunt Rails Against ‘Strong Female Lead’ Label: ‘It’s the Worst Thing Ever‘ and ‘I’m Bored’ of It
Author	Motorchampion
Upvotes	403
Comments	94
Date	November 15, 2022 9:16 PM UTC (3 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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