TV Tropes link to the '
Smurfette Principle'. The tendency
for ensemble casts to have exactly one woman. And those that avoid this trope because they're modern and socially conscious usually just add
one more female. Even the
Buffyverse, celebrated feminist crusher of the 'damsel in distress' trope, had 11 male main cast members to 8 female, and that's counting Tara's single episode in the credits.
I agree that having a token female, especially in the Trek shows, has been a problem. On the original show, the only female was regulated to answering hails, and it has been argued that in TNG, the only two females were given typical care-giving roles (ignoring the fact that Crusher is a doctor, not a nurse, and Tasha Yar existed at the beginning). I can see your point that many shows added one more female character to balance things out.
However, nearly every show brought up exist in the action/sci-fi genre, a genre that typically is enjoyed, at least in majority, by men. Genres that women are the
majority audience for, such as
romantic comedies, data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJ...TObxH3MMaJWIif3m5n5gdc3iPuYi581sTdo6neeMAz//Z, and
dramas typically have a more
diverse cast.
So while I agree that even taken all genres into consideration, there may be more men cast than women overall, it doesn't prevent there from being strong female characters in important roles.
Nobody is saying there aren't or can't be strong (or even weak) female roles in mass media.
No, that's was was said.
They are saying they are far rarer than equivalent roles for men.
Like I said, if you only take into account scifi/action, a genre typically enjoyed by men more than by women.
And that's not even starting on the issues with age and beauty in Hollywood and the disparity between men and women there. Can you imagine a film like The Expendables, but done with women of the same age?
No. That would be like a remake of
The Women starring middle-aged male actors.
Or hiring back Kristanna Loken to play a Terminator again when she's 68? Female actors over a certain age transition to playing maternal roles, or the housekeeper in period dramas, and leave the leads and the action to, often older, men.
I could if Kristanna were even remotely as popular as Arnold was in his prime. 66 year-old
Signourney Weaver
still gets roles in major genre films (though admittedly smaller roles).
Not necessarily....I'm sure that a galactic civilization that can produce clone armies should be able to handle a little artificial insemination.
Your first post was today at 8:21 AM. Yeah, you have real posting history here. Unless, this is a dupe account from a regular who is too afraid to say certain things under his real ID, I'd say that Emma's comment was pretty spot-on. And also, real smart, insulting a moderator. Let's see how far that gets you.
") evident in the post doesn't make things better. 
No, I had not considered that...
