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Feb. 22nd, 2003 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournLexa Doig, the girl that plays "Rommie" on Andromeda is in some silly Hong-Kong made movie being shown on Sci-FI channel today. Very amusing. Andromeda is a fun show, in the same vein as "Cleopatra 2525". Now that show was the purest expression of "girls kicking ass in skimpy outfits" ever made. Explosions, jumping, bikinis, and an hour-long plot compressed to 30 minutes of incoherent shots. In fact, the show stopped being quite as cool the moment it got a full hour of broadcast and they attempted to make it a serious story.
Seems like the model for a heroine these days is to take a beautiful woman, turn her into a combat monster, and then sprinkle in a lot of emotional damage: Xena, Aeryn Sun, 7 of 9, and the list goes on. Of course the model for heroes seems to be a strong man who treats everyone else with a violent non-nonsense temperament, but treats the leading lady like a queen. I guess its good that self-assertiveness is sexy in both men & women. Even the violence seems to accentuate the graceful beauty of martial arts and kick-boxing, although they manage to squeeze in plenty of things blowing up in the background.
Still, I wonder what kind of role-model those heroines really are for young girls. Does someone have to be totally self-sufficient and 'bad-ass' to be beautiful? Is emotional attachment only possible through high-drama and extreme personal pain? You're sure aren't going to see a heroine on one of these shows who is a little out of shape and curvy... even the 'geeky brain' heroine is always model beautiiful...
Things that make you go huh...
Seems like the model for a heroine these days is to take a beautiful woman, turn her into a combat monster, and then sprinkle in a lot of emotional damage: Xena, Aeryn Sun, 7 of 9, and the list goes on. Of course the model for heroes seems to be a strong man who treats everyone else with a violent non-nonsense temperament, but treats the leading lady like a queen. I guess its good that self-assertiveness is sexy in both men & women. Even the violence seems to accentuate the graceful beauty of martial arts and kick-boxing, although they manage to squeeze in plenty of things blowing up in the background.
Still, I wonder what kind of role-model those heroines really are for young girls. Does someone have to be totally self-sufficient and 'bad-ass' to be beautiful? Is emotional attachment only possible through high-drama and extreme personal pain? You're sure aren't going to see a heroine on one of these shows who is a little out of shape and curvy... even the 'geeky brain' heroine is always model beautiiful...
Things that make you go huh...
