Will younger generations grow up thinking that females are the gender associated with combat and action?
As kids, we get a lot of our world-view from movies and TV. I, for example, grew up in the 70s and 80s watching male action heroes like Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Now that most action movies feature slender, attractive women doing all the fighting and adventuring and defeating large male goons, will future generations consider that image of the gun-toting fashion model as the archetypal action character?