Over and over I keep seeing this happen in movies and video games that quite clearly have a feminist bent when it comes to their female character(s). The woman is presented as very competent/overachieving and to make this stand out they make the men surrounding her the opposite.
A few examples:
Peppermint (movie), Agent Lisa Inman basically knows and figures out everything while the other two detectives (one a veteran) are shown as slow or incompetent to figure things out.
Uncharted Lost Legacy: They turned Sam into a complete cuck when interacting with Chloe and Nadine and practically every interaction is meant to highlight how competent the women are and how slow/awkward Sam is.
Halloween (2018) never mind Laurie's character turning into practically a military grade soldier, her daughter's husband is shown as incompetent (as are the young girl's friends which is another example in the movie showing men as totally embarrassing to prop up the female characters) and Laurie even gives him the smallest gun when handing out weapons.
There are plenty more examples but it is certainly a trend when it comes to feminists writing female characters. It is like they have to turn the men surrounding said character into dumb incompetent fools in order to prop her up and as such the female character doesn't stands on her own merits but feels like a forced stereotype and just doesn't ends up being compelling.
[–]ClockworkOrange926189 points10 points11 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Receptionist:
“How do you write women so well?”
Nicholson:
“I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.”
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Don't forget the ol Ghostbusters 2016 remake...
But yes, the feminists in most media (commercials included) always do prop themselves up and think that degrading men somehow makes themselves look "strong and sophisticated".
[–]Tercalerc1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
Jesus Christ...The comments that make sense are being downvoted. This is the situation of the Western world as of today. Truth is unpopular. Then you realize, MGTOW is also unpopular! Put two and two together :)