This is off the wall, but do any of you watch the t.v. show
"Smallville?" It has been one of the few shows I've watched regularly
over the past several years, and I've really enjoyed it. However,
during the last season, they introduced the Lois Lane character, and
she was so annoying that the show was almost ruined for me. She is
abrasive, tough-talking and always looking for a fight. I don't mean a
shouting match; this super-model-type is perpetually ready to hit or
kick someone. But not really anyone- it has to be a white male. In her
many physical battles over the course of the past season, the only time
she has even been hit, let alone bested, has been when another female
was fighting her. Anyhow, I bring this up because I seem to be the only
person on the face of the earth to notice how persistent this theme is
in movies and television shows. Look at any promo for an upcoming
movie; most all of them have a clip where some super-thin female is
either punching or unleashing one of those flying-Matrix, impossible
drop-kicks (that only super-model-looking females can do) on some white
male. Curiously, they never find any black guys- bad or otherwise, to
hit or kick. I wonder why that is? Has anyone else noticed this? It
really, really bothers me, and I'm at the point where I have to turn
off a show the instant I see yet another example of it. Really, leaving
out the racial aspect- how can all critics everywhere fail to notice
the unbelievably numerous numbers of small females beating up bigger
and stronger males on screen? I would cheer on Lois, or any other
fantastic female fighter, if they just one time busted up a meeting of
the Bloods and Crips or something. Also, think of the message this is
sending; young females will soon, if they don't already, believe that
the appropriate way for them to handle a problem is simply to punch the
male in front of them. Or maybe unleash one of those physically
impossible Matrix drop kicks. Lois and others like her are not
defending themselves, although it would be absurd enough to have these
small females beat up men in self-defense. No, they are absolutely
looking for trouble. They are getting up in mens' faces and grabbing
them by the shirt collar. Wouldn't someone who had this kind of
propensity for violence-even if was realistic- be reported to the
police and be asked to undergo counseling? Really, the notion that
females are the best physical fighters on the planet has become the
most persistent theme in our media, yet it seems to have escaped the
notice of everyone except me. Maybe I'm just becoming even more
paranoid. Well, sorry for the rant, but I just feel so alone in my
observations on this subject.
"Smallville?" It has been one of the few shows I've watched regularly
over the past several years, and I've really enjoyed it. However,
during the last season, they introduced the Lois Lane character, and
she was so annoying that the show was almost ruined for me. She is
abrasive, tough-talking and always looking for a fight. I don't mean a
shouting match; this super-model-type is perpetually ready to hit or
kick someone. But not really anyone- it has to be a white male. In her
many physical battles over the course of the past season, the only time
she has even been hit, let alone bested, has been when another female
was fighting her. Anyhow, I bring this up because I seem to be the only
person on the face of the earth to notice how persistent this theme is
in movies and television shows. Look at any promo for an upcoming
movie; most all of them have a clip where some super-thin female is
either punching or unleashing one of those flying-Matrix, impossible
drop-kicks (that only super-model-looking females can do) on some white
male. Curiously, they never find any black guys- bad or otherwise, to
hit or kick. I wonder why that is? Has anyone else noticed this? It
really, really bothers me, and I'm at the point where I have to turn
off a show the instant I see yet another example of it. Really, leaving
out the racial aspect- how can all critics everywhere fail to notice
the unbelievably numerous numbers of small females beating up bigger
and stronger males on screen? I would cheer on Lois, or any other
fantastic female fighter, if they just one time busted up a meeting of
the Bloods and Crips or something. Also, think of the message this is
sending; young females will soon, if they don't already, believe that
the appropriate way for them to handle a problem is simply to punch the
male in front of them. Or maybe unleash one of those physically
impossible Matrix drop kicks. Lois and others like her are not
defending themselves, although it would be absurd enough to have these
small females beat up men in self-defense. No, they are absolutely
looking for trouble. They are getting up in mens' faces and grabbing
them by the shirt collar. Wouldn't someone who had this kind of
propensity for violence-even if was realistic- be reported to the
police and be asked to undergo counseling? Really, the notion that
females are the best physical fighters on the planet has become the
most persistent theme in our media, yet it seems to have escaped the
notice of everyone except me. Maybe I'm just becoming even more
paranoid. Well, sorry for the rant, but I just feel so alone in my
observations on this subject.