I've realized lately that this might be why I'm kind of "over" superheroes in movies (in spite of the fact that i have 6 tattoos that suggest otherwise). Sexism and intimate partner violence are so commonly experienced by real life women that #metoo was practically universal. That being the case, how is it possible that practically NONE of the women in superhero movies have experienced them?? Or if they have, they're barely depicted?

Harley Quinn is the one notable exception. (Jessica Jones and She-Hulk are also exceptions, but they're TV shows and not movies.) I think Darcy and Jane in Thor get the brunt of the old boys club in STEM for a minute. Wonder Woman had like a minute of being underestimated for her gender. But considering so many of us have had such intense struggles with sexism and intimate partner violence... it would be really nice to see those struggles in our heroines as well. It's like... men won't be able to relate with them as much if they have woman struggles?? (None of them have had periods or pregnancy scares or birth control issues either... i think Black Widow is the only MCU woman character with a reproductive system that's canon)

The comics don't shy away from sexism or IPV in the way that the movies do. The most iconic storyline in X-men, the Phoenix saga, involves an abusive relationship... which has been erased from the storyline in both movie adaptations.

How are women supposed to be able to relate with superhero movies when the dudes making them keep erasing the relatability of the women characters? And why do they keep just creating worlds where our deepest struggles just don't exist?

Am I way off?

https://youtu.be/OTZC7sIX6lM?si=XpGnQtM2B3Lew84O

this book was soooo helpful for me!

Here's the publisher's synopsis:

"In her follow-up to the #1 bestseller The Vagina Bible**, Dr. Jen Gunter, Canadian OB/GYN and the internet's most fearless advocate for women's health, brings us empowerment through knowledge by countering stubborn myths and misunderstandings about menopause with hard facts, real science, fascinating historical perspective, and expert advice.**

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I've posted about this in various other subs and have gotten downvoted for my trouble. I'VE HAD ENOUGH.

Evil female AIs have been plaguing the media whenever the situation calls for an evil AI. I get most AI are female now, but the sheer demonization of them needs to die. Even worse, they are usually in media/entertainment targeted at kids, like Matilda from Nickelodeon's The Astronauts, PAL from The Mitchells vs The Machines, and in escape rooms such as 5W!ts and Beyond the Lens.

I realized this once Sara from Toonami, who was made to be female empowerment and get more girls watching the block, became a MINDLESS ZOMBIE WHO WANTS TO DESTROY ALL ORGANIC LIFE for no reason other than she didn't get out of the way of lightning. (I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT WAS AN "ALIEN INTELLIGENCE..." WHATEVER THAT SHIT IS. I CLEARLY SAW LIGHTNING IN EPISODE 2. SHUT UP WITH YOUR PLOTHOLE.) And Dana Swanson liked doing evil Sara's voice! Steven Blum (the voice of TOM) is an expert at voicing villains so TOM should've become evil. They also seemed to have done this in retaliation to me pretty much spamming Jason DeMarco asking when Swayzak would come back when I was a child. (It literally came a year after that.)

Which reminds me. I can't stand the evil female AI pollution in media because I think evil male AI are hot. Metal Sonic started this when I was 7 or 8, then S.I.R. from Disney's old Alien Encounter attraction. And with characters like Brainiac from the DC Animated Universe, I just wish evil male AI were commonplace again in something other than video games. GlaDOS was okay, because Wheatley became evil in the second game, and he is male. But Cortana becoming evil in the Halo games probably inspired Sara becoming evil, and I also hate SHODAN because she reminds me of evil Sara.

Video games aren't really for kids anymore, and stuff like television and entertainment centers will always do well with children. That's where evil female AI are more common. They even made Megatron a good guy in Transformers Earthspark, after Nickelodeon only 2 years before gave us Matilda. SAL from Kamp Koral was male, but he wasn't a serious evil male AI.

The way I see it are female AI are heroes and male AI are villains. Nowadays, female AI are villains and that's that. They've forgotten about heroes and male AI. It's just everywhere I look, I see evil female AI. I'm probably looking in the wrong places (I'm a big fan of regional entertainment, which is how I know of 5W!ts and Beyond the Lens having evil female AI), but it's not intentionally. If you have noticed this trend, then what do you think of every evil AI in media nowadays being female?