Where Are the Women? The Salvation
Does your movie’s plot need a nudge? Male protagonist and male villain need some feels? Why not try raping some women? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
From his own daughter to a female hotel manager, women exist in this story solely to make the male protagonist feel better about himself. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? John Wick
Badass lady assassin? Good. Dead wife to motivate the protagonist and decorative tits and asses to, er, motivate the audience? Less good. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Woman in Gold
Too often, movies are about men grappling with their feelings about things that happen to women. This movie adds the woman’s story back into the mix. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Love ’em or hate ’em, this movie is pretty sure that women aren’t really people but merely playthings or punishers of men. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Water Diviner
The grief of women isn’t their own: it is a prompt to kick a man into action. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Beyond the Mask
The only woman with any significant presence in this story is here solely to give the wounded male protagonist someone to aspire to. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The DUFF
The power of a female protagonist is almost overwhelmed by clichés that reduce girls to not much beyond how they look and what they wear. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Spring
This film is an especially egregious example of a woman’s personal awesomeness being good for nothing onscreen but making a man feel better about himself. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Furious 7 (aka Fast & Furious 7)
The presence of more than one woman in fairly significant roles is overwhelmingly negated by how nearly all women are presented for a horny male gaze. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
