Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women
posted by mlawski on August 18th, 2008
Posted in: TV, culture, movies
Tags: feminism, long ass post, shia la beouf, transformers
Last night I finally saw the 2007 Transformers movie. It was OK, in a Michael Bay sort of way, but it was very clear that it was made for a very specific audience: young white nerdy men who wish they could bone models after watching them sexily fight robots so sweat cascades down their luscious tanned bodies. All right, fine. If you must, Michael Bay. I’d prefer if you objectified some hot men every once in a while, but I also understand that you think that would make you gay, and you don’t want that, Michael Bay. I understand.
But then I see this quote from Megan Fox, the actress/model playing main hottie of the film:
“Both of the female characters in the movie were very strong characters. Rachel [Taylor]’s character is very intelligent. I thought that they were representing women very well.”
That’s the last straw. It’s bad enough that they make movies that objectify women, but then to call those women Strong Female Characters? I do not think that phrase means what you think it means, Megan Fox.
So you know what I say? I say screw Strong Female Characters. What we need now are some Weak Female Characters. My arguments below the fold…




Jean-Paul Sartre once said “Hell is other people,” but his characters were just stuck in a plain old room with some other folks and no exit. None of them was the lone existentialist trapped in a children’s television program.



