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Starship Troopers is so gender neutral the characters all shower together.
For real though, the female characters are badasses, and their gender is never referenced. They introduced a female starship captain and I was like “damn, this is what Voyager’s Janeway should have been.”
Its why the ghostbusters remake pissed me off so much. Oh they’re women so they must be neurotic, mocked and struggle. On all levels. More than the original all male cast. Because feminism or some shit. We can’t just have them be confident, competent and achieve. Piss.
For someone who grew up on Ripleys it makes me want to start skinning writers. Thank god Afterlife came out
The only kind of feminism that should appear in the media. I despise “first woman to X-Y-Z” crap. Wholly irrelevant.
They had to make up for the board game being extremely sexist
“Fun for the whole family!”
How do we make this fun for the whole family? We can’t sir, this is a war game, exclusively for fathers and sons. But we have to show he has a family, we can’t just have some single father alone with a young boy, what will people think? I’ve got it, sir, we’ll put his wife in the picture, but she’ll be doing the womanly business what comes natural to that species. Throw in a daughter, too. Playing the game, sir? By God no.
Hm. I might need to watch Battleship now.
It’s legitimately not bad, not good mind you but super duper not bad.
I’m legitimately watching it right now while I work. It’s got a ridiculous all star cast, the writing is awful, it’s mildly entertaining, and yeah, Rihanna is just a regular, super competent officer who everyone is chill with. Oh and the alien missiles look like battleship pegs.
Which look like hedgehog mine launchers from ww2, it’s a fun add but it’s not like why the game parts look like that.
Sounds perfect to queue up for this Sunday afternoon :)
Battleship’s protagonist is a piece of shit, but the film had lowkey great points. Having real veterans and amputees as actors. And I loved how the alines are just sorta people. The scientist aliens even help out some of the people we’re following. Like, “it’s okay don’t afraid. Wow this must be real culture shock to you”
“Oh my god, we’re all gonna die.”
"You’re right, we’re all gonna die. You’re gonna die, she’s gonna die, I’m gonna die…
But not today"
Fucking drifts an entire wwii era battleship to deliver a broadside
You’re goddamn right it had some great points
It’s the reason i mostly stopped reading anime’s: all girls/women are “gIrLs” first and can never hold their own against a boy/man
Between that and the casual “sexual assault means ‘hello’” nature of most japanimation and Japanese comics, I pretty much just stopped. There are exceptions here and there, but they’re so buried under the tide of misogyny I don’t feel like dumpster diving to find them anymore.