How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I’ll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
    197·
    4 months ago

    My biggest issue with most strong women characters in action movies is they seem to be swappable with a male and nothing changes.

    They’re strong characters who are portrayed as a woman.

    Take Ellen Ripley for example: strong woman. Can’t be played by a man as the character no longer makes sense. Has to be a woman. Someone else would get it wrong.

    Also I’m getting tired of the “I had X amount of brothers” or “dad taught me Y” as justification. Why can’t a woman be strong on her own? Why does it have to be a man making her strong?

    • geissi@feddit.deEnglish
      221·
      4 months ago

      Take Ellen Ripley for example: strong woman. Can’t be played by a man as the character no longer makes sense.

      Ripley was originally not even written as a woman.
      There is not a single scene in the original Alien where her being a woman is in any way relevant.