Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Topic share: women in action stories

I'm not ready to share my latest topic so I would like to share this post from the Neostriker blog:

https://neostrikershining.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-neostriker-is-about.html

The topic it raises is an interesting one I think worth debating on. Why in action movies are women forced to fight the women? One theory shared in the post is to combat violence against women, which is a commendable goal and helps explain the common exception; Women fight men as long as they win. There are very few exceptions to this exception.

What do you think? Does removing women from facing men in construction help reduce violence against women? My guess is it probably does to a certain extent, but unless the core of addressed, it's only a step and not a cure.