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To be fair he-man's muscles are magical.
You'd think they had at least seen Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2:
My only problem with Teela's character design is that they changed her fiery red hair to more of a mahogany color.
It's all CGI, you know. It's there that went all the movie's budget.You'd think they had at least seen Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2:
I was personally pretty delighted with Teela's updated classic look. Thought Powerhouse did a very good job.
That's what I simply can not fathom. Genre (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc.) entertainment has been presenting us strong female characters for literally decades. It's not we were introduced to the concept within the last 5 years. So why is there so much more vocal negativity to such concepts within the last decade?!
It's the times. We're in the midst of a massive culture war, or at least the West seems to be (here in Eastern Europe we observe from a safe distance and wonder where things went so horribly wrong for you guys)*. Everything is seen as political.
Queen Marlena can lead a squadron of men into battle and save the day in 1983, but if she did the same in 2021, it'd be seen as woke propaganda. Sarah Connor will practically redefine the term badass in 1991, bad when she does the same in 2019 it's pushing the "feminist agenda".
We can't have nice things any more.
*not saying we don't have culture wars of of our own, we do, but pop culture isn't one of the fronts
Queen Marlena can lead a squadron of men into battle and save the day in 1983, but if she did the same in 2021, it'd be seen as woke propaganda. Sarah Connor will practically redefine the term badass in 1991, bad when she does the same in 2019 it's pushing the "feminist agenda".
We can't have nice things any more.
*not saying we don't have culture wars of of our own, we do, but pop culture isn't one of the fronts
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I got into a debate on Facebook with one guy who claimed there was 'zero male presence' in the new He-Man. When I pointed out that there were in fact something like four times more men than women, he shifted the goalposts and said the men were all weak and the women achieved their goals without them. When I pointed out that Orko, Roboto, and Man at Arms all save the women (the latter more than once) at various story points, the response was that Man at Arms was neutered compared to the original version. When I pointed out that Teela had a history of ignoring her father's advice and that she was frequently in charge of the Masters, he went quiet.
It is curious how Make Eternia Great Again mentality seems to overlook the contribution and characterisation of both the male and female characters that was always there. He-Man's save the day tactics clearly overshadowed almost everyone except Orko.
If that isn't reason enough to rest He-Man for a few episodes, I don't know what is!
Yeah, that was one of the sad examples I had in mind when I typed my post. I saw that image upthread of a taut muscled Linda Hamilton, whom almost everybody cheered in '91 and then come 2019 she vilified (not by everyone and hopefully not by a majority, but loudly enough by a vocal faction that gives that impression).
It's a symptom of the wider radicalization of the far right. They've gotten more militant and organized about everything. It started with video games and has spread ever wider from there to comics, prose, film and TV, business, and politics. People like that have always been there, but in the past, they may have kept quiet or spoken in whispers with like-minded sorts because they knew their attitudes would not be widely respected. But over the past decade, they've organized more and more, indoctrinated and mobilized more followers through social media, and become an increasingly aggressive cultural and political force, to the point of literally staging a coup attempt. Their aggressive attacks on things like this in fiction are part of their wider propaganda war.
These are not people who adapt to changing times. The more the times change, the more they double down and try to force them to change back. Pointing out that inclusion has been normal in fiction for a long time doesn't register with them, because their rhetoric is not about acknowledging objective fact; it's about claiming that reality is what they want it to be, as a way of attracting the allegiance of like-minded people who also want it to be that way.
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Lynn , I'm going to say who is twice Teels's age, has an identical body type.
Go to porn hub, and type into the search field "Strong woman emasculates baby man"
You'll see.
So hot.
There wasn’t any boys vs girls in he-man. All the women on that show were well respected by the men. There was no sense that they were seen as “icky”. Frankly, He-Man is an asexual show 95% of the time with Orko being the one main character to have anything close to an ongoing relationship. Infusing queerness into it is harmless fun borne out by the show’s flamboyant, camp style. It’s far sillier to insist it’s straight.
You know what “assume” spells out
. And were those men also wearing leather harnesses, metal gauntlets, and pink babydoll shirts?
I did wonder why there were so many 'natural' blonds, Although that could also just be football fans.There wasn’t any boys vs girls in he-man. All the women on that show were well respected by the men. There was no sense that they were seen as “icky”. Frankly, He-Man is an asexual show 95% of the time with Orko being the one main character to have anything close to an ongoing relationship. Infusing queerness into it is harmless fun borne out by the show’s flamboyant, camp style. It’s far sillier to insist it’s straight.
You know what “assume” spells out
Personally, in a cartoon of this type sexual relationships are almost entirely superfluous but deeper feelings do inform character motivations I suppose.
Buzz Off's species seems to have dispensed with women altogether, unless of course he is a she or a they, which seems more probable. I never understood the tendency of cartoons to masculinise bees on account of them being seen as aggressive.
Why would that be?
It happened in the She-Ra's debut movie "The secret of the sword"
I believe that the only romantic couple regularly depicted in the original show are Adam's parents. The rest of Eternia is populated just by single people.
