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[image deleted] Anybody who thinks Star Wars fans hate Rey and Marvel fans hate Captain Marvel/Brie Larson because they're women clearly are not fans of either franchise. Star Wars has some of the most iconic strong female characters in pop culture like Princess Leia, Padme Amidala, and Ahsoka Tano. Princess Leia was the Senator of Alderaan for the Imperial Senate, she smuggled the Death Star plans away from Darth Vader at the battle of Scarif, she resisted torture from Darth Vader where the vast majority of people would have cracked, she was the one who got Han, Luke, and Chewie saved when they were trapped on the detention level, she was a leader of the Rebel Alliance, and she killed Jabba the Hutt. Because of this, she's one of feminism's greatest icons, right up there with Rosie the Riveter. Padme Amidala was the Queen of Naboo, she brokered peace between the Naboo and the Gungans, she retook Theed Palace from the Trade Federation, captured Nute Gunray, became a Senator in the Republic, survived several assassination attempts as well as an execution by wild animal at the Geonosis arena, snuck behind enemy lines to try and get peace negotiated between the Republic and Seperatists at the Seperatist parliament, and fought in many battles in the Clone Wars. Ahsoka started off as a snippy Padawan, but we got to see her grow as a character into the character we all know and love. So what do all these characters have in common? They are all strong female characters that are about as universally loved as you can get, and they are written well. Compare that to basically any character in the Sequel trilogy, where none of them are well written, they are strong just because, and are mostly rejected by the Fandom. Same thing with Marvel; Black Widow and Scarlet Witch are well written and are well rounded characters. Meanwhile, Captain Marvel, while at least having decent writing, is plagued by the bad acting and awful personality known as Brie Larson. Replace Brie with someone better at acting and I doubt many people would hate the Captain Marvel character.

Hear, hear.

I understand why they hate the movies there are both very bad

Finally, someone who gets it. Strong female character ≠ a good movie.

Nobody likes bad movies with or without a female lead.

People watch all kinds of dreck with male leads -- the Mission Impossible movies, the Transformers movies which could actually make your brain bleed with their sheer awfulness, but Captain Marvel is just an okay action movie and -- behold! -- the death of the female action hero!
Actually, I loved the Force Awakens. But look to the two ways your second sentence could be read, and see why it earned the troll doll.

Who likes the transformer movies? 8yrs?

The Mission Impossible meh at best. I like Ahsoka from star wars.

Ahsoka is wonderful (of course!). My point about the Transformer movies is that male-headed franchises full of meh seem to get a free pass about their defects and lack of character development, while female-headed ones get the CSI treatment of their every possible misstep. I'm still hoping for an amazing Black Panther 2 starring Shuri, though.

I hate Transformers for the same reason I hate the new star wars movies, bad writing. Yeah, I hope it's good too.

If you want a strong female character with good writing, watch the 1985 version of Anne Of Green Gables. (and the other movies that follow it)

Such hypocrites......so f**king sad too.......

oh gosh I was like that a few years ago.

You forgot to add masks to the list and yes I mean literal masks.

Why did you put 2 movies in there?

Superwoman and Rey from Star Wars.. Conservatives don't like women as the main character.

I'm in lgbtq+ ok with women being the main character and well... can't say I like vegans but you do you, also Gillette will be my brand of choice when it comes down to it, don't know what the last thing I'm missing is because I'm also losing sleep some nights, but I would most likely say you do you.

Cool. I’m not triggered by what conservatives think. See how that works? The meme wasn’t about you personally.

sweet

Also, I don't mind vegans more meat for me.

Nobody likes Mary Sues as characters male or female.

Conservatives hate those in the picture above. Just when I call them out for that, they just suddenly start making excuses.

I mean I watched both movies why should I have to like a movie when the writers obviously invoked lazy writing? A strong female character doesn't equal a good movie.

I don't mind women as main characters (neither do my fellow conservatives that I know) it's just those were poorly written movies.

Three replies = probable triggeredness

Perhaps not.

Are you denying that the characters in the movies are Mary Sues?

Not necessarily. Are you projecting your own denial, like trumpists frequently do?

Legit why are you trying to make this about Trump now?

For reals? Notice the hat in the original meme.

What I'm pulling away from this: I should like a movie with a female lead even with its bad writing? Otherwise, I'm a sexist.

There are movies with strong female leads that you like, right?

The original Anne of Green Gables is pretty good. 1985

Do TV shows count?

Oh Hilda TV show, great show.