I'm sure not just a few posters here have harbored resentment over the way society ignores cowardice in women. We all know about "women and children first", we all know that when a natural disaster or a fire happens, women aren't exactly tripping over themselves to help men get out alive.

I for one am never going to expect a woman stranger to risk her life for me when I'm in danger - the exception being if she's a soldier or first responder. I've never seen such and I doubt any man here has seen it, either, but hey, I'll admit maybe one or two of you have. For every one woman who has charged into danger to rescue a male stranger - and I am talking about strangers here, not family or loved ones - twenty men have done the same for women. A woman who is filmed spotting and then racing by a man trapped under rubble and about to die a fiery death is meh - a man who's filmed looking at and running by a woman in the same situation? That shit gets on the tubes and he's a dead man. A woman who flees her boyfriend's side when there's a bear confronting them? Meh. A man who does that to his girlfriend? He better be throwing himself off a cliff.

It's not that women are naturally cowards. It's that courage in the face of danger is not a hard requirement for a woman. Society condones female cowardice and whatever we condone, flourishes. It's a gender thing and then not a gender thing at the same time. Of course you also never hear of feminists calling for women to put their lives on the line, especially for male strangers whose lives are at risk, even in a natural disaster where the antagonist in the situation is nature, not another man. And if the antagonist is a man, say a thug or a mass shooter? Feminists are like "men killing men, leave them to their depravity."

I want to see this end. Women should be held to the same standards of heroism and courage as men are, and equally shamed for acts of cowardice, including but not limited to the aforementioned examples.

One way I see this ending is more movies encouraging female heroism, like the real life Joan of Arc and the Chinese story of Mulan, whose life closely resembled Joan of Arc's and could have ended just as tragically had her dice-of-fate rolled snakeyes. Both women dressed as men (Mulan outright posing as one) and both women went to fight for their country, both got caught and one got burned to death, while the other almost got murdered. Mulan was almost punished with death by her own people, while Joan of Arc was abandoned by her King. The Sui Tang Romance version of the Mulan story has her and her sister offering both their lives to save one condemned man.

What is the common thread? Women risking their lives for people they didn't even know (neither of them knew the vast majority of the kingdom's subjects, many of whom owed their lives to the war victories these women achieved).

Fast forward to today. In China a waitress saved the life of a suicidal boy by walking out to him where he was going to jump, heedless of the fact that he could have attacked her or even dragged her off the bridge with him: he was one step away from death. This woman was hailed as a hero, as she should have been.

Meanwhile, in 2014, a fighter pilot named Miriam Al Mansouri risks her life fighting Daesh (aka ISIS). What does Fox Noise refer to her as? "Boobs on the Ground." It's not the same as burning a woman at the stake but it's quite the verbal immolation. Conservative America doesn't respect women who "step out of line" and do "men's work." Men's rights activists, oddly enough, didn't have the foresight to opine on Al Mansouri issue, and they should have.

Two women qualified as Army Rangers, going through the same hell as their male counterparts did. Yet they were initially denied induction as Rangers. Far as I know 14 women are now Army Rangers, and MRAs failed their own movement by not raising hell about the barriers these women faced. Doing so would have benefited us. I'll get into why further down.

Next I want to get into entertainment: namely female superhero movies. All the way up to Captain Marvel, they kept failing at the box office. For daring to let Furiosa share the spotlight with Mad Max, the movie Fury Road was outright and unfairly panned by the manosphere, driving its sales down to below its competitor, the horrible and pathetic "Pitch Perfect 2". And while one can certainly argue the Mary Sue angle with Rey in the latest Star Wars trilogy, and Showrunner Kathleen Kennedy did brutally ruin the franchise, no one ever thought to mention how Rey, a woman, charged into danger like a Paladin/Knight Errant over and over again.

There's a pattern here. Barbara "Mockingbird" Morse of the Agents of Shield tv series was a consummate example of female bravery. Her ex-husband trash talked her to death and was hopelessly incompetent, but what did his ex-wife do? She took a bullet for her ex. She was constantly the exact opposite of Jemma Simmons, a perpetual damsel in distress whose future husband even offered his life and suffered brain damage while underwater, just to save her life. But all she had to do was wear a shirt with "Ask me about my feminist agenda" written on it, in a comic book, and some fans were outright ready to see her hang.

I get the sentiment that most female superhero movies were poorly written or whatever. I strongly disagree, and I'm a bit bitter over people's hate for Halle Berry's Catwoman. I liked the movie. I liked Elektra, too. But people hated it for various reasons and I get that. The female Ghostbusters movie had a team of women ganging up to save their male receptionist. The final scene in Avengers Endgame had a team of women joining up to save Spiderman and a considerable number of fans hated it. The Last Jedi had Admiral Holdo practically earning her place at the banquet table in Asgard (they're both Disney property, get the joke?) with that hyperspace maneuver, and she was a major focal point of fan hate-rage. I'm going to skip Brave and a few others just to save bandwidth and move onto my points.

One thing that men's rights activists should have caught onto, is that these movies encourage women to be brave, and not cower behind a man in the face of danger. In the case of Barbara Morse, she outright put herself in front of a bullet for an ex-husband that shit talked her. For those of you who are chomping to point out that this is not a woman risking her life for a male stranger, yeah, legit point.

But this is where I get to the point I skipped far above. We can only ever get to a world where women shun the idea of standing by and letting men do all the dying in the face of danger, if we encourage more tales of heroism and bravery by women. Men's rights activists need to build a reputation for cheering on heroic women in real life news and in entertainment because guess what, both elements influence the female zeitgeist, just as stories of chivalry and male heroism influence the male zeitgeist. Even if we hate the movie, we can even boycott and throw tomatoes at Kathleen Kennedy for the crimes she's committed against the franchise, but we can also praise the consistent message that is coming out nowadays: brave women putting their asses on the line for others around them is the new cool. And if it's not the new cool? MRAs need to make it so.

tl;dr: we cannot both hate on women being cowards during a crisis and then be utterly silent when the media is encouraging the end of this degenerate mindset. IMHO we have to choose between one or the other, and as men's advocates we need to raise the roof for women in entertainment and real life who put their lives on the line. We need to do what we can to crush roadblocks against women equally participating in the military and special forces.

Summary: The men's rights movement serves itself greatly by openly and strongly encouraging women who put their lives on the line for others, in uniform or not, for strangers or otherwise, in real life and in entertainment. While it is our imperative to denounce the crushingly rampant misandry in society and the media, we serve ourselves equally well by cheering female bravery. Doing so will result in a severe erosion of the culture of male disposability.