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did you literally just reply to the point “women are rarely the lead character in movies” by basically saying “well duh, if the lead were a woman the movie would have to be about housewives and they’d have to make it boring”

did you

Sigh, I can't make a single sarcastic comment around this place without it blowing up in my face.

No, I didn't. I'm just saying that guys want to see a guy as the lead character and not a girl.

Why is there an assumption that media aimed at men and women has to follow different genres? Why can’t action movies star women or be aimed at women?

It doesn't have to and it doesn't. Just because action movies aimed at women aren't mainstream blockbusters doesn't mean they don't exist. But that demographic isn't huge, simply because women in general don't like action movies as much as men do.

Hollywood isn't very original or taking big risks with their investments as it is. They're not going to produce movies for a target audience which is relatively small compared to the mainstream ones where much more money can be made.

And I’m not even gonna go into how the name for this genre is subtly demeaning.

Wrong – works of fiction may be unrealistic but people will still see role models, learn morals, and pick up on social cues and body language. Media plays a role in how we perceive and interact with the world.

I told you what they were meant to do. Not what people decide to pick up from a work of freakin' fiction. People by the millions actually believe that shooting a car will make it explode into a giant fireball. Or that if you crash you only have a few seconds to escape before it blows up. That doesn't mean Hollywood should change the way things explode on screen because people start think that's how physics work.

If movies were made to be realistic they would be boring as shit and no-one would go to see them. Because you can see said realism by simply walking out of the movie theater. You can see people acting realistic in the real world. And that's not why you go to see a movie.