I agree with this article very much and have mused on the same topic (though not in print). If, say, a powerful, competent woman is also sexy, it means Hollywood's not willing to cast non-hot women. If she's not hot, it implies "people don't accept that a woman can be powerful as well as attractive" (I have heard that complaint made). Or there was an article I read a while back that complained the female hacker in Transformers being smarter than the Pentagon's IT staff was a ridiculous attempt to create a "strong female character." I thought of it as a typical summer blockbuster character (it's the type of film where the hackers and conspiracy theorists always know more than the authorities) who just happened to be a woman.
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Or there was an article I read a while back that complained the female hacker in Transformers being smarter than the Pentagon's IT staff was a ridiculous attempt to create a "strong female character." I thought of it as a typical summer blockbuster character (it's the type of film where the hackers and conspiracy theorists always know more than the authorities) who just happened to be a woman.
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