Lakitha Tolbert
1 min readMar 6, 2019

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I like to contrast all the movies you named above with the 2016 Ghostbusters, which gets womanhood right, in a way that Wonder Woman doesn't. There’s more than one woman, they're not sexualized, they’re funny, the women are friends, and show love and care for each other, and still manage to kick some ass. Ghostbusters was everything women have been asking for in Action movies, but it was shit on by a lot of people who felt threatened by the movie.

From time to time, an action movies gets made with a WoC as the star (Proud Mary) but they are never marketed as well as the male lead films, so no one goes to see them. Proud Mary was actually a pretty god film, which had a strong, but vulnerable, woman trying to extricate herself from under the thumb of a man who wanted to control her. The most current movie I can think of starring a WoC is Miss Bala, which stars Gina Rodriguez. Almost no one has heard of it.

So the movies you're asking about do get made, but the studios don’t market them as heavily as they do films starring Keanu Reeves and Liam Neeson. Then when these movies fail, the studios claim that making such films is too risky.

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Lakitha Tolbert
Lakitha Tolbert

Written by Lakitha Tolbert

(She/Her) Busybody librarian from Ohio.

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