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@PilgrimsPass10 ай бұрын
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@visayanmissnanny2.07610 ай бұрын
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@tabinekoman10 ай бұрын
Dude, you must talk about Solar Punk. It is the current Scifi vision of the left
@mikhailthetenor338710 ай бұрын
I'm just gonna quote Megara from Disney's Hercules, just for fun.
@mikhailthetenor338710 ай бұрын
"I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this, have a nice day."
@ireallycant44169 ай бұрын
You should watch blue eye samurai
@wingedyaga291410 ай бұрын
In my opinion, what separates a warrior woman from a "girl boss" is the responsibility and duty. Warrior Women aren't fighting for themselves but for their family or kingdom. Mulan doesn't join the army because she doesn't want to be a wife but because she wants to save her father and even turns down power in order to return to her family. Atalantia challenges her suitors to a race in exchange for her hand in marriage and doesn't take the offer back or run off to join the Artemis hunt, she accepts that those are the conditions she set. Meanwhile the "girl boss" only has this duty in the meta of "role model for little girls" but their actions and stories are mostly selfish or hollow. Carol and Jennifer stories are them literally going "nah ah" to thier supervisors. You talking about maturity kinda reminds of C.S. Lewis and Susan. (Spoilers for Narnia) Susan isn't brought back to Narnia in the end because she's wrapped up in what she thinks is being mature but is really a child's view of it. She rejects fantasy like modern girl bosses reject traditional femininity.
@jonashartman305910 ай бұрын
Excellent thought piece! And great shout out to C.S. Lewis as well. I have and always will say that the Narnian books are so much more than children stories, and that as an adult, you can read them and gain more from them than you would have as a child.
@_gold_eye_265610 ай бұрын
Hell I just watched the movie brave recently and Merida is completely justified in not wanting to be forced into an arranged marriage because culturally that’s what’s expected. At the same time she’s not just going around intentionally ruining everyone else’s life. Her whole character arc is making amends for her own actions after accidentally turning her mom into a bear in a blind rage because she’s being forced to marry when she neither wants to nor is ready to. Merida isn’t so selfish as to scorn her family or friends she just isn’t accepting of being press ganged by those around her into marrying some random person she doesn’t know. In other words she has healthy reasonable boundaries.
@jonashartman305910 ай бұрын
@@_gold_eye_2656 Brave has always been one of those movies that had really good elements for a story that it just doesn’t quite pull off. I do still enjoy it a lot, but every time I watch it, it feels like it’s…missing some context for the characters or something. Still, really good example, and definitely is still a film that I would recommend to people.
@_gold_eye_265610 ай бұрын
@@jonashartman3059 it’s definitely lacking things but you can never pin it down.
@jonashartman305910 ай бұрын
@@_gold_eye_2656 Yeah, exactly. Still I did have a wonderful time with it, and I still feel that it’s one of the best looking 3D animated films that I’ve seen, in terms of environment and lighting. And it would definitely be cool to have a friend like Merida. 😆
@master_samwise10 ай бұрын
Loved the use of Tangled at 5:40 and beyond as examples of a maiden done right. The last truly great Disney movie IMO, and one that deserves a lot more praise than it got.
@PilgrimsPass10 ай бұрын
great to see you here!
@sovietunion764310 ай бұрын
tangled was kind of the last gasp is the problem. the issues were starting seep in, and even in tangled it does start to show the first smalls signs of that problem of "extremely strong female character" as she more or less fights for herself for most of the movie with no help (until the end of course where he sacrifices himself for her freedom, which was really great don't get me wrong). I like tangled, and it was actually funny with a good story, but for me i will always associate it with the start of the downward slope unfortunately
@carsandsports12310 ай бұрын
Its wild seeing tangled as it has modern animation but actually good writing. definitely underrated
@peteranon845510 ай бұрын
@@sovietunion7643 I think that's a fair assessment. There could have been some sort of plot where she could have recognized her healing power and needed to use it to save an ill person instead of essentially dramatizing "simply leaving."
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
@@sovietunion7643when does she actually do any fighting? She surprise attacks Flynn a few times with a frying pan. He really does all the fighting against the guards and horse. Now I wouldn’t actually have an issue if she did some fighting. In a movie where a horse sword fights, all the characters fighting abilities don’t need to be super realistic . As it is, she doesn’t really fight. She runs away, she is competent and has agency, but that’s about it. None of her competency is used to make Flynn look useless. He is clearly capable and quite awesome. I do agree the mutual sacrifices at the end are amazing!!
@effysousa987310 ай бұрын
I'm a woman and I approve of this message. I hate how women are being represented, because women aren't like that. We're not Mary Sues and arrogant insane feminists. We're flawed and we have maternity ingrained in us. Those insane elite are extremely out of us. And I am tired of women saying that we didn't have strong female characters before the 2020s. The disrespect with final girls we've had since the 70s, the strong mothers and so on.
@GrimTheDestroyer10 ай бұрын
I hate every type of female characters in movies except for protective mother that's why loved Terminator 2 and Alien
@chrystianaw825610 ай бұрын
@@GrimTheDestroyer you hate every type?
@GrimTheDestroyer10 ай бұрын
@@chrystianaw8256 yes
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
Here here!
@theenderdestruction236210 ай бұрын
For fucks sake, Terminator, alien, FUCKIG HALLOWEEN (yes im counting her, girl got a brother who's evil infuckingcarnete and she semi beat his ass, but it took bullets to get him to leave)
@frankgrimes611210 ай бұрын
I really appreciate your nuanced approach to gender in media, Pilgrim. You appeal to tradition in the true sense, which does not exclude what’s good about our current cultural expression of timeless truth. I haven’t seen any other mainstream commentaries deal with these things quite as well as you. Subscribed.
@noleurunt10 ай бұрын
His Aragorn video is fantastic too
@wingsoffreedom358910 ай бұрын
That's why I like him also his take down of our societies obssession with equality in his korra video was a point I've been making for years and never seen anyone else point out.
@robertortiz-wilson158810 ай бұрын
Same here!
@1685Violin6 ай бұрын
King Emperor Penguin also made a good video about strong female characters and tomboys. Note that unlike Pilgrim, Penguin is a Protestant.
@notme98162 ай бұрын
@@1685ViolinThank you, will try the Penguin as a fellow Protestant.
@bryanmcclure222010 ай бұрын
Honestly a very fair and balanced take on woman's betrayal in media.
@reviewspiteras10 ай бұрын
"Please save me from my crippling debt mr. Richman" that was too funny Pilgrim
@miguelgallegos787410 ай бұрын
Disney: we love strong independent womans! Also Disney: Gina carano is fired for beeing to strong and independent!
@TheCrimsonElite66610 ай бұрын
Disney: We love the LGBT community and we wish to give them representation. Also Disney: We're cancelling The Owl House because it's too gay for our liking.
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
@K.C-2049it might have been hyperbole, but I don’t think it was antisemitic. As far as I know, she didn’t say anything against the Jewish people.
@Simbala-bq5vy2 ай бұрын
Disney: You guys hate strong women's. Also Disney: Making Mulan the 2nd best Disney movie ever and Kim possible one of the best Disney shows ever
@johnclarke762610 ай бұрын
My wife and daughters are strong women, but they do not belittle, demean, blame, sabotage or want to replace men. They know their strength and their worth, so they don't compete against men, but only against their yesterday's selves.
@attilathenun9 ай бұрын
Well said sir. Hats off to you and your family.
@shannonmcelroy84543 ай бұрын
Tywin Lannister wasn't a saint by any stretch of the imagination, but this one particular philosophy is straight on. "Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king."
@destinymcintire218810 ай бұрын
I never understood why people feel the need demonize cooking and cleaning. Does it suck to do sometimes? Oh yes absolutely but the result are worth it. The results being you live in a clean house and are eating hot homecooked meals that are nutritious, made to your liking, and are more valuable than anything that a fast food or take out place could hope to offer. If you don't want to clean or cook for yourself then you'll end up blowing hundreds of hard-earned dollars at McDonalds a month and live in a complete and utter dumpster, with only roaches and other pests to keep you company and only stained clothing to wear that smells like last months fish tacos and a dash of BO. Not to mention the long term ailments from consuming fast food like obesity, lack of energy, etc.
@moseyonover73310 ай бұрын
They also just ninja flip over the drudgery of ostensibly fulfilling masculine chores like hunting, machine maintenance, farming and ranching, etc. My eyes always glaze over when a free-spirited tomboy character in a story hems and haws about learning to embroider or some other actually-very-fulfilling and challenging task and we're supposed to empathize with her as some forward-thinking pioneer and not the spoiled, irresponsible child she's acting like. Your brothers' jobs aren't any more fulfilling or enlightening! You're all doing chores! They're just chores! Any fulfillment you get from any of them is dependent on a good attitude and consideration for the needs of other people relying on their completion!
@acethemain77769 ай бұрын
I've been eating takeout a tad too much and can personally attest to the lack of energy
@patrickbuckley725910 ай бұрын
I love how whene well written Lois Lane, is strong independent woman, and fair maiden inb the best way possible. She is strong and virtuous and that is often what put's her in danger so often. She is fiary, and ambitious as well as dedicated to truth and justice, which is what makes Clark to find her attractive, and many of his villains find her insufferable, or even intimidating. Which combined with her willingness to alway's do the right thing even if it means dying in the process, (as well as her big mouth) often places her in danger. She need's superman not beceause she is week but beceause her spirit is so strong it writes checks her body can't cash.
@umwha10 ай бұрын
I think the perfect icon to talk about on this topic is Brienne from the ASOIAF books (not the show). She was written in about 1998 (?), and she seems so modern and ahead of her time. She's unattractive and physically strong, but her personality is so sensitive and introverted and shy. Her femininty runs so strongly through her, even as she has to deny and mask it. Yet, the message is that, yes, her femaleness does make her unlike the other warriors, but overall that is her strength, in that she has different desires, she actually dislikes violence, and is guiltridden about killing, and would never rape etc. She is inspired by stories of knightly heros, which she wants to imitate. You'd love it actually, as the theme is what knighthood means, and what seperates it from other warriors.
@teach68828 ай бұрын
Additionally, it is her femininity which allows Jamie Lannister to improve and heal as character, while probably thousands of men could have never done what she did for him
@umwha8 ай бұрын
@@teach6882 Indirectly, I think. I think its her idealism and belief in honour that sparks Jaimes redemption. I think she lives off idealism rather than being like other warriors because shes female, and has a romantic imaginative personality, and is dislikes violence, and has no violent sexual tendancies like males do.
@syntheticsleep10 ай бұрын
You know who's a really great female character that is sometimes a damsel, sometimes a warrior, sometimes a "boss," sometimes mature and sometimes not? Kagome. Talk about a series with well written female characters, Inuyasha just takes the cake in that department. And that's saying something considering a massive cultural divide....
@r3dr4te96310 ай бұрын
I remember I kept switching between liking her and hate her attitude. She feels very human that way
@Jamazed10 ай бұрын
Written by a legendary female mangaka who produced nothing but bangers. And Japanese media has some of the best female protagonists because they're willing to give them flaws and internal struggles that they have to overcome to keep you invested.
@syntheticsleep10 ай бұрын
@@Jamazed Yeah, I remember when I found out the author was a woman, a lot of things made more sense. And what you say is probably true in a general sense with the Japanese stuff, but there's something different in this story that's hard to put my finger on. Specifically with Kagome and Inuyasha, something that goes beyond flaws, struggles, strengths and weaknesses, character development and whatever else. Rumiko Takahashi was really able to capture something special with those characters that I've never experienced elsewhere. And that's not even including the story, setting and other characters which are also leagues above the rest, imo. Definitely a one of a kind author with a truly unique gift.
@tesreso544810 ай бұрын
Yeeeessss! Shes a realistic character thats dynamic, flawed, and grows along with the story. Hell they all do. Its all about just writing a good character first.
@UltraGalaxyify2 ай бұрын
You mean the insecure high school girl who enslaved a half dog demon for all eternity because she was possessive and afraid of losing him? Yeah, great female character 👌
@Pangora210 ай бұрын
One issue isn't the characters, it is that we've become overly focused on characters. The real question is this character or story to match. In a comedy like Shrek, people enjoyed it because it was taking all the tropes and inverting them. The evil ogre is the good guy, the princess kicks ass in combat, etc. This is then compounded by the Post-Modern desire to avoid Narratives. So instead of a Girl-boss in a setting and story where the type can thrive and move around it is locked into place. Scene 1, girlboss. Final Scene, same girlboss. And if Girlboss is so ideal, shouldn't that be everyone? So you wind up with movies of Girlbosses floating in the ether without being fit to purpose for the narrative. It takes 2 seconds in anime to find out there are many thriving Girl-boss types. But they are often fit into their own stories. Whats wrong with Marvel these days? Every heroine is a "Strong Independent Ass Kicker". So...in this entire MCU they're all going to be in the same movies and are all going to have the same character arc or lackthereof? Boring. You COULD do it right where a former Girlboss mellows out and then takes a younger girlboss hero under their wings and such. Just need to be willing to have the characters serve the story.
@r3dr4te96310 ай бұрын
The worse thing is the "girlboss" can't be portrayed to be wrong or having their belief challenged. They always have to be right and win even when they're wrong and losing (no, I don't contradict them)
@John-fk2ky10 ай бұрын
I’ve gotten to where I’m not much of a fan of warrior women not because I hate the concept but because I’ve seen it badly done often enough that its now an immediate red flag the work has to overcome to convince me to give it a try.
@chrystianaw825610 ай бұрын
I only like Mulan
@Crimzon_Nova10 ай бұрын
Woke women: "Men are terrible." Everyone else: "Then why do you want to be like men?" Woke women: "Oh look who is a hater!" Everyone else: 🤨🤔😑😒🙄😮💨😵💫🤯😩
@ScotsThinker10 ай бұрын
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@lottavuorinen10 ай бұрын
Most women that want to be like men and demonize femininity are pickmes, not feminists. It's rooted in misogyny, not hatred for men.
@orboakin807410 ай бұрын
I am Nigerian and i remember growing up in the 2000s watching shows like Clone Wars, Powerpuff girls, Juniper Lee, As told by Ginger etc. Even other shows geared towards boys, like me, featured strong, well written and developed and likable female and diverse characters like Kids Next Door or Megas XLR. What happened in the west that caused the weird social change to nake female and diverse characters so terrible and unlikable and with toxic identity politics?! Thank goodness for anime and manga or we might have forgotten good female and diverse characters exist
@AIartificalIntellige10 ай бұрын
Another Naija brother here! I know exactly how you feel.
@Jamazed10 ай бұрын
It's mainly a Hollywood thing where their culture is going through a hyper feminist phase the past decade or so. That doesn't really bother me, but there's this pretty big lack of quality control going on in western media now where really questionable pitches have been greenlit (e.g., Velma, Batwoman, She-Hulk, western comics in general). Most of the time it's just this weird revisionist obsession with repurposing old series into a loudspeaker for a social agenda. New content like Avatar or Arcane are fine though (those even have lesbian main characters), because those characters were made for the purpose of enriching the story first over being a vehicle for a political statement.
@orboakin807410 ай бұрын
@@AIartificalIntellige My guy, respect 👍👍
@orboakin807410 ай бұрын
@@Jamazed that explains a lot. So since it's just a cultural phase, it will likely pass. That gives me hope.
@Waaagh40KRed10 ай бұрын
It’s quite refreshing to hear someone mention Juniper Lee. I’ve not experienced that in nearly 20 years.
@ScotsThinker10 ай бұрын
The Woke had it coming. It's about time critiquing the woke became mainstream. Thank you our Brazilian Pilgrim Brother. God be with you.
@moderatecanuck10 ай бұрын
The same mainstream who excused it, mind you
@ScotsThinker10 ай бұрын
@@moderatecanuck hmm. That's True. We should keep caution and remain hopeful.
@anonperson397210 ай бұрын
Kill Bill was done correctly. Beatrix starts off as the femme fatale/dommy mummy killer. But the start is about how she transforms from killer to mummy. In the first film, it opens up the style of the film, sets the motivations, and she goes on a brutal rampage, killing hundreds, then finds out her daughter is alive at the end. Then, in the second film, she doesn't actually kill any one. Bud is by Elle, Beatrix leaves Elle to die. Then she sees Bills father, leaves him alive and goes to get her daughter back. She sneaks in, and there is Bill, playing with BB, who pretends to shoot her, and she pretends to die. She then spends a nice evening with her ex with their child. Then they talk. She then apparently kills him with the five point palm killer touch. Except, she hits him six times, and he takes six steps before he dies. She pretends to kill him, he pretends to die.
@jitendrakulaste23659 ай бұрын
Silence of the lambs was also done correctly but for a female detective.
@EnriqueMaxx10 ай бұрын
My only complaint is these videos are so short! Feels like we're just getting warmed up and then it's over already 😢 But seriously great work man. You have a real talent for making people think more critically about what's around us
@estelerundil44977 ай бұрын
As a woman who loves the princess trope, I think it reveals a desire for a Rescuer who isn't actually a normal human man. A Rescuer who is The Man, the only one who can really save us or love us unconditionally. I'm still up in the air about whether that representation ultimately adds up to a sign-post pointing to Christ or to idolatry. Maybe it depends on the story. I'd definitely toss Twilight onto the idolatry heap. But the average princess-rescuing fairy tale? I'd want to put that on the Christian symbolism shelf.
@RhiannonSenpai10 ай бұрын
10:23 Very good argument, pointing out the Athenians who had a very patriarchal society named themselves and their city-state after the warrior goddess Athena. Also it's not only Atalanta and other mythological female warriors but like you showed previously on the wikipedia page there have been women in REAL history. Some of the most famous and impactful female warriors or army commanders are: Boudica, Tomoe Gozen, Zheng Yi Sao, Shammuramat/Semiramis, Lady Fu Hao, Queen Tomyris, Artemisia I of Caria, Lagertha, Queen Tamar of Georgia etc.
@wille156510 ай бұрын
Great analysis. One point that I think isn't exactly right is the reason for why the traditional, medieval stories had the maiden and a knight trope. You said this was a good story to teach the children so the women grow up knowing their worth, while men grow up and are taught to not be a loser. I think it's the other way around, where the reality formed the stories. Back then the women were valued for their amazing ability to give birth, and men were actually expendable and protected the women. Both were seen as valuable, where the woman would nurture a family while the man protected it from enemies.
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
This is a good point. Women and men should both be valued for the important ways we all help one another and society. The strength of men and their role protecting and providing for the family is a great good! Women having and nurturing children is also important and something our society undervalues. Society way undervalues the importance of fathers as well.
@rottenmeat593410 ай бұрын
The princess locked in the castle tower is being punished. That is, she is resisting. This is a direct analogue to the man’s struggle for recognition.
@scavenger626810 ай бұрын
I believe there is a book called, "Maiden, Mother, Matriarch" that encapsulates the ideas you are talking about pretty well. However, since I have not personally read it I am not able to judge just how good it actually is. I can only speak of the second hand accounts of women reading it and a decent number of them actually changing their minds on modern tropes. As for your quip on the early 2000's I'm gonna be honest ALL the guys and I in my household love deadly women. Part of it being horn dogs and the other part owing to the old military family traditions we still hold onto. Deadly parents means deadly children. Alcohol and repair bill issues notwithstanding...
@b.melakail10 ай бұрын
Louise Perry has a podcast called Maiden, Mother, Matriarch :) well worth the listen
@GeorgiaCav10 ай бұрын
Excellent video. The flip side of the grrlboss is the stupid/incompetent/cucked males that she’s inevitably paired with these days, including males who used to be competent but who must be made incompetent in order to elevate their grrlboss companions - Thor in Love and Thunder, Indy in Dial of Destiny, and Ezra in the Ahsoka series, just to name three recent examples.
@Soloong_Gaybowzer10 ай бұрын
Ellen Ripley: Strong female protagonist with everything that makes them a good person Captain Marvel: "Physically" strong female protagonist of questionable morals, stripped of everything that makes them feminine
@bellphorusnknight9 ай бұрын
I forgot but in what way did Ellen Ripley had a heart of gold moment?
@strategicgamingwithaacorns287410 ай бұрын
Part of me wants to see a Deconstruction of the girlboss, where the "Strong Independent Woman who doesn't need men" is actually a facade covering a self-loathing emotional wreck, who built up her masculine persona as a shield against her own femininity, and who is constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown. Or a woman who wants to be the archetypal beautiful maiden who empowers others, but society forced her to be a "Strong Independent Woman who doesn't need men" in order to gain social acceptance, and needing to wear the Girlboss Mask in public is forcing her into a Mental Breakdown.
@FireGlitch10 ай бұрын
That actually means being creative and coming up with something new and interesting instead of trying to fit quotas.
@braydennanneman712310 ай бұрын
sometimes it feels like you can read my mind
@mrbigglezworth4210 ай бұрын
I'd argue that we're seeing the eventual conclusion of the feminist ideal as set forth by Simone De Beauvoir, even down to the point where in order for women to succeed, they must become men. Hence the nigh endless female characters not only acting in a more masculine way, but appearing more masculine as well. You posted a few video game characters, where the character in question had been modeled after a real actress then intentionally made unappealing afterwards on purpose. Which is something else I have to get into, many of the new designs, especially for women, are being designed to be as ugly and uninteresting on purpose. Take as 2 examples a Nurgle Plague Marine from Warhammer 40k....and Abby from the Last of Us 2. The Plague Marine is large and imposing, intestines and other organs bursting not just from his body but from his armor as well, a deathly miasma follows him about. He looks like you'd expect a follower of a God of disease and decay to look like in the setting from which he originates. Now look at Abby. "She" has the body and shape of a man, but not one that would be reasonably expected to be surviving in a post-apocalyptic US where resources like even food are scarce and hard to come by. She's noticeably bulkier then even some of the men almost to the point of parody. She doesn't fit, and it's rather obvious. Such as it is with a lot of these new characters, that not only do they not look believable in the setting, they don't even sell the idea of the character at all. Anyone can believe in a super heroine because she has powers of some kind to compete with men. No one is going to believe Phoebe Waller-Bridge as an action hero, even if the person she's out-staging is an octogenarian Indiana Jones. No sir, I don't agree that these new female characters are the result of just rejecting traditional feminine ideals and roles, but a rejection of what it is to be a woman entirely. These characters all share the same aspect of either acting like men, down to outright replacing their male counterparts. It's not a good stance to take, as it leaves both girls and boys without positive figures for masculinity and femininity.
@macmurfy2jka10 ай бұрын
I love how everyone touches on the new Indiana Jones film with Wambat as the a character who is meant to be taking over for Indie. Her only redeeming act in the film is dragging Indie back to the future and reuniting him with his lost love. I definitely did not read her as some emasculating girl boss who the writers wanted to take up Indie’s mantle. Up until that point, she was clearly using Indie for her own benefit. She relented and saved Indie after finally leaning to look out for someone other than herself. While not the villain, she is clearly an antagonist to Inie, a real Anti-Hero. Her character is constantly being dressed down for it’s villainy and being shown up as far as resourcefulness, cunning, empathy, and emotional fortitude. Indie learned no lessons from her. She was simply an allie of convenience, who only later comes around to actually be a friend to Indie. Heck, the character’s introduction is literally her being sniffed out as a villain by a grieving, self absorbed Indie who probably doesn’t even care much about the state of the world, as she it trying dupe him into giving up a (as he perceived) worthless artifact. So what’s the moral of this story? Even bad people can do good things sometimes, so learn to cherish the good that they do? Forgive yourself for things you have no control over? It’s never too late to make amends? These were all lessons for Indie to learn, as he was always the hero in the story. Honestly Wambat’s character had more in common with Indie’s father and and Elsa than any other modern character archetype people are trying to foist upon her. I seriously wonder how many people watched that movie. And I seriously doubt anyone touching on that character as classic “girl boss usurps established male lead” has actually watched the film.
@1685Violin6 ай бұрын
@@macmurfy2jkaI suggest that you watch _Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Zombie Culture_ by Endeavour. It is not a review but more of a commentary on how Western pop culture is currently stagnating and nihilistic. You can't blame him and others for not watching the movie as they have seen the writing on the wall and saw patterns on how beloved franchises get vandalized by gl$!alists.
@1685Violin6 ай бұрын
@@macmurfy2jka Sorry, I misremembered the title of the video. The title actually had "undead" rather than "zombie".
@scollin809610 ай бұрын
Another banger as always, Pilgrim!
@TehFlush10 ай бұрын
Nord VPN ad? My man had made it. Congratulations
@PilgrimsPass10 ай бұрын
thanks! sorry for the late reply of gratitude. Only saw it now. Much Appreciated!
@classycompositions93210 ай бұрын
I think you hit the nail on the head when you talked about virtues. All the writers focus on are superficial traits rather than true virtues. I think this reflects a general trend in our society. People can't even agree on the virtues anymore because of relativism and emotivism (e.g. virtue itself is subjective or whatever you feel like it is). This often results in ignoring virtue altogether, resulting in just god awfull characters (and people).
@MrZemme10 ай бұрын
This is hands-down the best video you've ever made. The depth & care of analysis is striking. Even for someone (that is, even for me) who has studied story for a decade or more, you've shown me parts of the female-archetypes I've never seen. Damn well done! And thank you. (P.S. I've just followed you on Twitter. I hope we can have many fruitful conversations about storytelling and society. God bless.)
@flamestoyershadowkill640010 ай бұрын
A series that foes this in a very interesting manner is black lagoon with a majority of its female cast. Balalaika acts like a mother to the Russian mafia, Revy is a deconstruction of the girlboss trope, etc.
@Angrenost0210 ай бұрын
Tohru Honda from the manga Fruits Basket is still to this day one of my personal favorite feminine and strong female characters.
@28starwarsfan10 ай бұрын
From those early 2000's examples, I still love The Bride from Kill Bill. The rest of those are pretty dumb. Trinity (in the first film) isn't dumb so much as third or fourth fiddle in the film--so she walks the line. She kind of tumbles over it in the sequels, but so does the films.
@alienkatgames10 ай бұрын
This is why I'm subbed. I'm making a horror game atm with a female protag and these videos have huge influences on her character (and gameplay). I want to portray her as someone that's intelligent and resourceful not physically strong. So combat mostly relies on the use of traps and lures to get away and a knife as a last resort. She's a powerful medium that's still getting the hang of her powers. Her power is her high level of empathy and ability to inspire hope. (She would make a great therapist)
@sunsetsky988510 ай бұрын
I really think you should do a video on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. She's a really interesting character, specifically as a princess and her story has a really great environmentalist message in a similar vein to Princess Mononoke. There's just so much to talk about for that movie it'd be an amazing video essay. A
@Multipurpose_Bagel9 ай бұрын
On seeing the use of imagery from D!sney's take on Rapunzel, I think that version is the last movie we see truly exceptional takes on both positive and negative feminine traits from D!sney
@gigamoumantai269610 ай бұрын
Tomura Shigaraki and his LoV friends are the perfect representation of a group founded by benevolence and acceptance although initially the LoV has no such representation when it was founded by AfO the narcissistic villain who is truly the only pure evil and cartoonish villain in MHA.
@ubiwrongcomeatme345210 ай бұрын
Right on the money. They can't make their message stick or become popular because it's synthesized. There's no natural rhythm in us, no chord that resonates with that or ever has. It reminds me of the opening of the Silmarillion. Where the deities were all singing and that one just sounded...discordant. And that one wound up being the ebil. 'Course I believe there's good places for discordant voices, but leadership isn't one of them.
@blackboxvenom643510 ай бұрын
I really like your perspective on this topic Pilgrims Pass. You really know how to explain the domino affected of the many problems people face. On top of, your very good in showing that most average folk tend to be cogs in machines, and don't even realize it from the entertainment they watch.
@mrcin123310 ай бұрын
1:19 "Jacob Geller and it's consequences , have been disaster for the video essay genre" Or "The truth is , the game was biased from the start"
@DragonMaster36010 ай бұрын
"To the town of Agua Fria road a stranger one fine day..."
@jacksonlee676010 ай бұрын
Nice analysis, I always appreciate the amount of research you do for these videos!
@chickenindoubleC10 ай бұрын
Pilgrim, each of your videos gets better and better and I'm consistently impressed with how you manage to outdo yourself. Well done!
@Diogolindir10 ай бұрын
I find the Warrior woman a very interestig archetype, for women has also the right to take their bodies to their maxium capabilities for the protection of their families and themselves. When mature enough, female fighters don't show that weird girl-boss attitude we see in media.
@darkheart966810 ай бұрын
I have never heard anyone talk about the damsel in distress trope and put a positive spin on it. I never really understood why the Zelda games where named after the princess and not the warrior but damn you really made me think.
@GrimTheDestroyer10 ай бұрын
That's one reason I hate Princess Zelda and also most of the series there more loveable girls than Zelda eg:- every girl sages from OOT, Marin from Link's Awakening, Malon from OOT, etc.
@1685Violin6 ай бұрын
King Emperor Penguin made a good video about damsels in distress along with tomboys. Check that out.
@anotherbacklog10 ай бұрын
Rather than poor writing, it’s more like writers don’t really believe in what they are actually writing. You can sense the passion in crude works where creators really believe in what they are writing, but not in the mass produced commodities. Gender aside, badass characters are way more fun when they Fail. Everyone expected the badass to kick ass so it’s boring and unsurprising when they actually do.
@joaoemanuel91879 ай бұрын
on my way to make this man got 6 digits on his bank account
@ericb532810 ай бұрын
What I think is interesting is that the male has still never gotten to swap roles with the female yet. We've never seen a mystical male who is the center of the plot, fair and morally pristine but needing to be recued by a woman who was once a loser but had to develop the strength to save and be worthy of the male. Women have been given the power and prestige of men. But men are never given the grace and inherent value of women. The only reversal of men thats ever made is to make them pathetic and usless
@Darth_Bateman10 ай бұрын
Well yeah, because there is a very important question that is raised: If you're a woman who went from 0 to baddie with super powers , are you REALLY going to go out of your way to bother with a man who got kidnapped? If I were a woman, the ONLY way that would happen is if he had a magic dick that drives everyone he mates with into a pure orgasmic frenzy in ADDITION to being the greatest sex practitioner in the world. . . . . Then again, considering that 66% of married women never experience orgasm. . . . . . .Hmmmm. . . . .What if we made it so he is the worlds strongest man physically, but doesn't know how to use magic, and everyone else uses magic and he's basically powerless before him?
@justachannel860010 ай бұрын
Actually I wrote such a story once. One of my female readers got extremely hot but other women started a smear campaign against me.
@wingsoffreedom358910 ай бұрын
That comes down to sperm is cheap eggs are expensive it's where male disposibility and the empathy gap stem from. I'd say it's one of societies last major moral blind spots it must overcome. It's the reason girls can dress up as boys for holloween but boys don't dress uo as girl characters except for comedy. If you ask a retarded feminist she'd say it's the Patriarchy looking down on women and men don't want to be seen as the lesser gender. But in truth it's subconsciously the opposite. Because women have wombs they have innate value like you said, so if they choose to take on additional performative value it isn't perceived as deminish them in any way. While women start with value Men start as a deficit they are basically women without wombs therefore worthless but also strong and potentially violent therefore also a possible threat so masculine Identity is about proving ones utility and safety through performative masculinity to your family, tribe, male peers and women. That's why effeminate men or man that cry are marginalized because they are both percieved as failed men and due to a lack of a womb also failed women. It's not a disdain of women that men don't dress up as girls it's actually a pedistalization of women and the sense that if they show a feminine side they will be reduced to being defective women and failed men at the same time and be social ostrocized.
@chrystianaw825610 ай бұрын
Because such story wouldn't appeal to anyone. Not men nor women
@mrbigglezworth4210 ай бұрын
Because that's not really a kind of fantasy men or women have. You'd be writing for yourself at that point, and writing like that has lead to a lot of bombs in popular media as of late.
@ximthedespot467310 ай бұрын
A fellow member of the "Nord's are the greatest" club. Personally though, the older version of Elder Scrolls lore, like what was potrayed in the Pocket Guide of the Empire, First Edition.
@umwha10 ай бұрын
I think Mikasa is a great example - she certainly draws inspiration from the femme fatales - but shes is never sexualised - and her femaleness in the personality is retained alot - in that shes very emotionally fragile but guarded, never dominating, and is defined by her holding on for erins love or friendship, and wanting to protect erin, and feeling betrayed. Her devotion to erin defines her, which struck me as the sort of writing that would NOT be tolerated by western feminists, but i liked becuase it rang true for how damaged women act, traumatised girls, and female criminals, for instance.
@Darth_Bateman10 ай бұрын
"But she's never sexualized" Every artist ever : PFHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHA Mahito : HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAAH Sukuna: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAH Black Beard : ZEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH Big Mom : MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA Kaido : WORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORORRORORO Stinkmeaner : NIGGAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
@the997010 ай бұрын
Mikasa is good but some writers might take that fall into satellite character if you *just* make a character revolve and depend on another totally.
@AIartificalIntellige10 ай бұрын
Pretty sure her workout scene was pretty...
@umwha10 ай бұрын
@@AIartificalIntellige When was the workout?
@tylersingleton928410 ай бұрын
Dragon Pilot Hisone has a very interesting twist on the fair maiden archetype. The main character Hisone starts out as the stereotypical blank slate, but finds that only through her femininity can she tame the dragon and gain an identity.
@dagon999 ай бұрын
Sick title
@jonathanb.benderson949410 ай бұрын
The best example I can think of a fem fatale with a heart of gold is Irina Yellavitch from Assassination Classroom.
@jaegerbomb26910 ай бұрын
This woke crap can't die soon enough.
@Stst00129 ай бұрын
In my opinion, those "strong female characters" only cause harm to gender equality. First, they sort of imply that a woman needs to be just like a man to be equally powerful, capable and overall have similar qualities. This plays straight into the hands of "alpha males" who think that true woman should be submissive, belongs just to the kitchen and to the bed… (I’m not gonna talk about it more). Second, those girl bosses don’t have any weaknesses, bad qualities, they don’t need to improve and grow as a character. This feels like a cheating, considering the fact that a good character needs some development, or at least, he needs to adapt to harsh conditions or to learn to live with them. Since those girl bosses won’t undergo that process, it feels like they wouldn’t withstand it. Which, once again, plays in the hand of "alpha males" who think that real women can withstand or endure less than men.
@IronKore10 ай бұрын
90s also had underworlds girl boss, Tom raider, Mrs Smith, and so on. It wasn't just the damsel in distress... But funny thing is, I loved them all. Today, a girl boss has to be a man or god
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
The 90s Disney has a lot of great female characters! Mulan, Belle, Jane from Tarzan etc. they were still feminine. they also had great strength of character, intelligence and still had agency without being jerks or selfish about it.
@Drdirkjackson10 ай бұрын
I would argue that the Domi-Mommy predates Trinity by a few years at least. Gina Davis in the grossly underrated The Long Kiss Goodnight has all the characteristics sans the spandex.
@80krauser9 ай бұрын
Yeah she was Bourne but a snarky woman. Pretty underrated film. And she uses a pretty cool Mini 14 which is always cool. And maybe foretold 9/11 but let’s not get into that
@csongorarpad467010 ай бұрын
9/10. My only unironic gripe is with the making-out scene in the elevator in Fifty Shades of Grey. I'll still share the video, but it's a concern that I feel like I should make a disclaimer to friends I share it with who might have difficulties with potentially scandalizing scenes like that. I mean this with utmost sincerity and charity, Pilgrim, as I do love your work and the grim pills you're putting out! Godspeed to you!
@macmurfy2jka10 ай бұрын
I love how everyone touches on the new Indiana Jones film with Wambat as the a character who is meant to be taking over for Indie. Her only redeeming act in the film is dragging Indie back to the future and reuniting him with his lost love. I definitely did not read her as some emasculating girl boss who the writers wanted to take up Indie’s mantle. Up until that point, she was clearly using Indie for her own benefit. She relented and saved Indie after finally leaning to look out for someone other than herself. While not the villain, she is clearly an antagonist to Inie, a real Anti-Hero. Her character is constantly being dressed down for it’s villainy and being shown up as far as resourcefulness, cunning, empathy, and emotional fortitude. Indie learned no lessons from her. She was simply an allie of convenience, who only later comes around to actually be a friend to Indie. Heck, the character’s introduction is literally her being sniffed out as a villain by a grieving, self absorbed Indie who probably doesn’t even care much about the state of the world, as she it trying dupe him into giving up a (as he perceived) worthless artifact. So what’s the moral of this story? Even bad people can do good things sometimes, so learn to cherish the good that they do? Forgive yourself for things you have no control over? It’s never too late to make amends? These were all lessons for Indie to learn, as he was always the hero in the story. Honestly Wambat’s character had more in common with Indie’s father and and Elsa than any other modern character archetype people are trying to foist upon her. I seriously wonder how many people watched that movie. And I seriously doubt anyone touching on that character as classic “girl boss usurps established male lead” has actually watched the film.
@juanfranciscovillarroelthu687610 ай бұрын
The point that south park Made was that the problem is that the characters where LAME!! You can make your character what ever You want, they just need to well written (AKA Not Lame)
@dDdD-rj7gx10 ай бұрын
"The best ones were always a Nord." - Truth, that is pure and simple truth RIGHT THERE! (Don't discount Dunmer women though). More seriously though, well spoken. I've mentioned him before, but you really should check out the works of George MacDonald, who was basically the first fantasy writer and a huge influence on Tolkien, Chesterton, and especially C.S. Lewis. There is a really strong female presence in a lot of his stories. He has the traditional princess in a lot, such as 'Princess and the Goblin' and 'The Light Princess' whom oftentimes also have a very strong or willful personality. 'Phantastes,' which I consider the first fantasy novel for an adult audience, also has some interesting musings on the archetype of men fighting for damsels in distress within fairy tales that culminates in a profound meditation on what love is. And then you have his final fantastical work, the morbid story of 'Lilith,' that in addition to having THE evil queen also has an enigmatic woman named 'Mara' who is, at once, incredible and very frightening.
@jedidiahmayes71672 ай бұрын
Shout out to Ripley, the OG female lead. Dude Sigourney Weaver played that part so well, talk about legendary acting.
@WBrizzle819 ай бұрын
I like this take. It didn't come off as diving into the center "cause that's where the truth is most likely." It's thoughtful analysis and teasing out the truth, and it happened to land in the center.
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
Great take on female characters. I love that you point out the problematic tropes that have existed for a long time. Also, as always, you are so on point about the better ways to write female characters. The key is to embrace true femininity, not masculine traits and not the failings of femininity.
@the997010 ай бұрын
How should tomboyish women be written then? I wonder what takes would address that.
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
@@the9970 I’m a very tomboyish woman. I still have femininity. I love sports, I always wanted to fight and play with the guys as a kid. I have never liked the super girly things. I still can be nurturing, compassionate, and relational. It’s not about being a girly girl or a tomboy. Both can be feminine (see eowyn).
@the997010 ай бұрын
@@Eilonwy95 Oh alright I see. I usually associate "tomboy" with not having those traits or well more masculine though I guess what it really means is more rougher activities?
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
@@the9970 I get that. I think “tomboy” means more of liking a lot of stuff that is normally associated with what guys like but a “tomboy” is still a woman. Good examples of this abound in fiction (honestly maybe a bit over represented if you ask some girls). Jo March, Laura Ingalls, etc . All of these characters, like real life “tomboys” have plenty of traits/psychology that is quite feminine, such as nurturing and a strong commitment to family.
@fckthsmrns8 ай бұрын
Wow! your videos are so amazing. You deserve more views and subscribers.
@joshuaowens782910 ай бұрын
That was a pretty cool analysis.
@KeyOfTheTwilight10 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video. It is exactly what I thought about how i feel about the female characters that are written today. Immaturity at its finest.
@eponymous378410 ай бұрын
Have you ever seen the anime Yona of the Dawn? I've been thinking about it a lot as a positive example of a good female character.
@Eilonwy9510 ай бұрын
Oh I love Yona of the Dawn. Will we ever get a second season?
@98227038 ай бұрын
have you seen the anime,Basilisk? the women in that show are great.
@lancewalker259510 ай бұрын
You want a "strong female character"?: BEREN & LUTHIEN.
@KrizzRobin11310 ай бұрын
I have to recommend "Long Kiss Goodnight" with Geena Davis and Samuel Jackson. Just on the action and interactions between the two. Early '90s.
@elkboy25389 ай бұрын
Up until now, I've only seen grace under a religious context, but thanks to you I can see it in another different light. As a writer, I'll have to keep grace being a trait often found in females in mind when writing my female characters.
@Jonjzi10 ай бұрын
Mountains are clearly a symbol for boobs, so shooting a rocket at a mountain which causes everything to be covered in snow means that it's... hmm, you know, I started this sentence thinking I was joking, now I'm not so sure anymore.
@niahoad4 ай бұрын
Cooking and cleaning are 2 skills you need to have if you want to be independent. I lived on my own for 7 years now and this statement is so true. There are so many old infants out there, it is baffeling.
@Off-Brand_Devin9 ай бұрын
I recently reread Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mina Harker should be included in the discussion of strong (i.e., well-written, well-developed) characters more often. Without her, the mystery around Dracula doesn't get solved and the villain is defeated, even though she is technically the damsel in distress. Amusingly, it's largely due to her note-taking and organizational skills.
@raybryan169 ай бұрын
You are my favorite philosipher
@monkey62079 ай бұрын
I agree, except at the end where you make the claim girls like stories about romantic relationships better. But you are onto something. Men and women write character differently. I just wouldn't conclude it's the romance women always prefer, but dynamics and personality while men tend to prefer macguffins and quests. The dwarves in The Hobbit don't have many dynamics, for instance, but girls on DeviantArt will often draw them bantering so you'd think they had personalities. Girls tend to add more nuance to the people. (I watched the Hunger Games with my family last night by coincidence, and remembered the r threads romance were very tedious. These threads are shoehorned into YA novels, I think, to make them 'more marketable' though most could do without them for the quality of the whole story.) I was surprised you made so many good points!
@monkey62079 ай бұрын
I also think that while 'pretty' is better than '$exu@lixed', they could just look. . . normal, like Mirabel from Encanto, for some variety once in a while. Not the tumblr esque route of unappealing though.
@Eilonwy959 ай бұрын
Agreed! As a girl I do love a good romance, but more than that I care about relationships and personalities of characters. I struggle with the question of how pretty characters should be. There is nothing wrong with a character displaying beauty, but I don’t want the message to everyone to be that how pretty you are is important. Beauty is a great thing in art, but in the stories we try to see ourselves in having a normal looking character is just fine. I do agree that trying to make characters look ugly or grotesque is an over correction.
@monkey62079 ай бұрын
Thanks for your input, and yes, from what I've seen, 'romance' is just one dynamic of many! There's a principle in animation called 'appeal' which I think all characters should have in their designs. A character design can be appealing while portraying different things; even villains are drawn with the principle of appeal. There's many ways girls could be drawn that are not the same old stereotypes. @@Eilonwy95
@GALA8910 ай бұрын
Man i love you, thx for this content, its gold, keep it up
@idlecleric10 ай бұрын
Good work again, son!
@ArwenUndomiel40610 ай бұрын
4:25 ouch. Please say that once again and louder. That’s something that needs to be heard!
@joypawz76545 ай бұрын
I like making characters a lot and I'm proud to say I've never had a character that fell into either trop or if she did she was well written. I'll use my danganronpa OCs for an example. My character Momo was the ultimate Assassin (was because she died) Her family business was as assassins (specifically for the government I think?) Momo started at a young age ended up separating herself from others after an incident when she had to assassinate a friend's father. At the end of her story in her killing game she ended up bonding with a gentle giant who ended up sacrificing himself so the others would die of this illness. During the trial Momo was completely aware we should easily get away with it but in a moment of realization she understood that if she got away with it everyone would die and would be the opposite of what her friend wanted. So she exposed herself by shooting the robot in charge of the game, explained some questions and then died when the replacement came. I have another character who like the damsel in distress trope she thinks she is ugly undeserving of love, and this is because in middle school (aka hell) she was bullied because of her allergic rashes, and acne. But like a princess she kept her kindness and grace. She might have felt ugly but she didn't need to behave ugly in fact she wanted to be the kindness she needed at her lowest point. And because she was so willing to be kind she gained many friends. And she actually played a role in figuring out what was going on along with some of her friends.
@poppypollen43629 ай бұрын
Heeeey! I totally viewed dommy mommies of 2000s as role models as a girl! I loved how hot and badass they were. Made me do martial arts for a while actually :D
@joaogabrielsilvadarosa97349 ай бұрын
Hey, Pilgrim! I know you're not exactly a review channel, but if you have the time and opportunity, could you make a video about Shad's book, Shadow of the Conqueror? So far I've seen people have either mixed feelings about the writing vs worldbuilding, or just tearing the book apart because of their politics. And I would love to hear a review from a youtuber I actually know making an honest review about it.
@crusader211210 ай бұрын
Fantastic video. Keep up the great work. Peace ✌🏻 P.S. Do you think you could talk about The Orville and its depiction of a future society? I think that would be interesting.
@StefanAmarisDidNothingWrong10 ай бұрын
One girlboss I absolutely love is Alita Battle Angel
@erickmoczulski158210 ай бұрын
I would argue that she's not a girlboss. Her pure and wholsome nature is to strong for that.
@TruePT10 ай бұрын
Great essay as always!
@pumkinpatchworkАй бұрын
Vi from arcane is a fantastic example of modern girlboss done right. tough buff short-haired lesbian in a who fistfights and kicks ass but still isn’t afraid to show vulnerability, especially around her sister, and the show isn’t afraid to give her flaws and weaknesses and show her getting beat up.
@deezn8tes10 ай бұрын
Again, further reinforcing why Furiosa might be the greatest female hero ever written. In a world where being feminine and choosing to exist in the “society” means being subjected to BRUTAL slavery and oppression….the facade of modern roles falls away. All that matters is survival, and you don’t rise up the ranks to an Imperator without being very VERY good at surviving. And yet, she chooses to use her ability, position and influence to try and save those who are trapped and dominated by that very society that she had to effectively lose her femininity to rise through. I love Fury Road, and Furiosa shows that you can make a competent and equal character that just so happens to be a woman, without resorting to tropes or pandering.
@carsandsports12310 ай бұрын
Holy shit Ana really is going through a redemption arc
@Avzigoyhbasilsikos10 ай бұрын
Still waiting for the benegeserit video Thanks for this one Fr
@seoh15019 ай бұрын
please make a video about ser gawain and the green knight. i've been facinated by that story since i saw the green knight movie in the beginning of the year. cheers!
@mekingtiger909510 ай бұрын
Hey, look, the only intelligent brazilian in existence has uploaded a video again! Let's watch!
@ScotsThinker10 ай бұрын
:)
@aavila120610 ай бұрын
Kinda harsh no?
@Pangora22 ай бұрын
Coming back to this video after commenting when it was new; another issue is we use the word strong as a morality judgement. For instance, we use Strong interchangably with "Good" which is improperly used as well. The old joke being that a nun asks you how you are, and you say 'good' and she then asks you what moral thing you've done, or corrects you and says "God is Good, you mean well." That's the jist of it. Unpacking it, Good is supposed to be a moral position. But we've meshed it into the discourse. "We want Good stories! We want Good Characters." Its a bit of illiteracy and not even knowing what we want. We want masterfully crafted stories and inspirational characters, etc. Saying Good is just us being a bit lazy which used to work fine when we were all offline. Strong has the same kind of semantic overload. Strong tends to take on a physical dimension. A strong wall is unyielding. A strong sword does not bend or break. A strong horse can pull a heavy load. Strong morals cannot be fudged, as well. But we have other words to use in each situation. A strong wall is a stout wall. A strong sword is a durable sword. A strong horse is vigorous. Strong morals are virtuous. A When we say we want Strong characters, we can look at these examples and extrapolate outwards that these are all tasks these things were seemingly designed for. A hunting dog is what kind of dog? A hunter. If it is a strong hunter it will excel at things it is meant to do. If I say my dog is a strong hunting dog you imagine it has muscles capable of it jumping off quickly and plowing through brush to track and tackle game - or its a retrieving type. If the dog is a retrieving type of hunting dog, if I say my retrieving dog is strong we don't assume raw physical strength. The dog that is strong at hunting actually has a gentle bite. The opposite of powerful, but still strongly suited to his task. Looping this around to Female Characters, a strong female character thusly should have attributes and traits that enhance whatever it is. Females have access to many traits that they excel at. A "strong" character can have humility. What we're experiencing is type mismatches in addition to this. What makes a hunting dog good include a soft bite. Other kinds of working dogs require a hard bite. 3rd waveism was assigning traits to women that they envy in other things. Strong Men are workaholics? Let's grab that and apply it! Doesn't work.
@mangaxrisk6694 ай бұрын
With Atalanta , it was golden apples. The sorry goes from the version I heard. She could defeat any man physically. And was pressured to take a husband when she became queen. said she'd marry a man who beat her in a race and kill them if they failed. Many men died. But one prayed to Aphrodite.. she granted him 3 apples. He threw them at different times in the race. The first made her realise that with time she will age and die (the reflection) The second: reignited her memory of having a partner and her deep desire to be feel love again. The third: reignited her procreative instinct to have a child and family. These were the 3 changes that defeat the girl boss etc in the ancient times. And it's probably the same now. What is more important in your life. love or independence. Your heart or your mind. Perhaps you need both at different times of your life. Hollywood is constantly trying to commodify our drives and emotions for their gain. Make your own choices.
@sethevans531810 ай бұрын
My personal favorite strong female character is the bride from kill bill she’s nether moral or a prodigy
@SeaCow1g10 ай бұрын
Looking forward to the eventual inevitable Frieren video.
@ummdustry571810 ай бұрын
8:05 Marinette Du-Peng Cheng is a QUEEN and I will not tolerate this slander.
@1685Violin2 ай бұрын
I thought Marinette is constantly criticized for being too obsessed with Adrien and also because the show is poorly written in general. I don't what is the truth, including on how she considered a harmful role model to girls or "problematic". There is a kernal of truth which is there are such things as harmful relationships.
@coffeehousedialogue568410 ай бұрын
Yeah, once I get the money, I'll check the vpn out. I could use a new one, since mine (Proton VPN) is a bit faulty. But, yeah, you're definitely giving me ideas fir hiw to write the fenale characters.