In a country so morally corrupt as the US, virtue signaling is necessary, as are instructions in shampoo bottles.

Yeah, well, when the number of people you leave behind starts dwindling, you’ll have that problem less and less.

No, pranks are insulting. I don’t bully the people I care for.

I’m not your monkey.

Dollhouse is 7/10, The Nevers 6/10, Firefly 9/10. (Stars.)

Charlize, not Anya.

And I read a lot of complaints about a woman leading a movie called Mad Max.

I dont do it on purpose but the stress of life is honestly becoming overwhelming for me and it does spill over to effect my plans with my friends.

Have the decency to cancel fast, then.

Frankly, at the second time you fail an agreed time without timely warning, I’d drop you like a hot potato and go fully NC.

I don’t. Pranks are done by bullies.

Asimov is so, so difficult to read through now that I’m older, as the female characters are just… ouch.

Case in point: Noys Lambent in The End of Eternity. She was added by editor mandate, and she’s hollow: a kept woman who’s secretly a perfid ally of an opposing faction. The hero is somewhat redeemed by his understanding that the rebel cause is just, but she’s pure cardboard and eye candy. 13 y.o. me loved her. Years later… She’s cringeworthy.

Not particularly. Whedon’s work in particular caters to his particular fetish, small women kicking ass. Compare Buffy, Dollhouse, Firefly, The Nevers.

Ripley was… neuter enough in Alien and Mama Rambo in Aliens. I’m sure the whiners hate the cutesy scenes with Newt and love the Queen Fight.

Found the damn prankster.

Those movies work because the female leads are just good.

The usual suspects whined about Furiosa, precisely because as you say the movie was about her.

The selling point isn’t that they have women in them, the selling point is they are really really good movies.

Yeah, but whiners whined anyway.

Furiosa irritated the hell out of many men with a wounded pride.

There are probably a decent amount of people who will just not watch a female lead

They probably would, if she acts like a man.

My Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader. Still working fine and without rooting (I will updated its software before learning that rooting it required a prior version).

Someone called it more succinctly “Dances with Smurfs”.

And that’s why it won’t happen. I don’t see Palicki and Lee coming back.