No such thing as 'good female empowerment'
Are you kidding me?
Are people still peddling all this femafascist nonsense?
Look, if someone is already strong, they don't need 'empowerment', right? Also, the woman in this movie is not shown to be very powerful, just very lucky. How many times does she scream and gets protected and rescued by a man? Of course any 'powerful' things the females do here, are completely unrealistic, so I don't see how this movie can 'empower' anyone.
Also, why is it never 'male empowerment'?
Isn't talking about 'empowerment' saying that women are inherently WEAK, so they need 'empowerment' to level up to normal level?
You CAN empower people, for example, with information. Dog handlers and 'owners' are often weak, and treat their dogs very softly, so the dogs can't take them seriously. You can change this by telling them they need to be calm and assertive for their dogs to take them seriously, then train them to use this side of them.
However, it's not really giving them power per se, it's just letting them access their already EXISTING power - the power was inside of us all along, we just didn't use it!
Now, what about this movie is 'female empowerment'? The fact that she absolutely needs Jack Colton to protect her from snakes, paramilitary nuts with guns, the jungle and such? That she just happens to stumble upon solutions, like the vines-across-the-river (that the antagonists somehow can't make happen)?
In the end, you can't empower someone, you can only help them access and find out how to use their already existing power.
This means, people are already powerful (regardless of bodily gender), they just didn't realize what power they have inside of them. Everyone has 'assertive' side, but they don't always know how to access that without some training. Watch some 'Dog Whisperer' or 'Cesar 911' to see how real 'empowerment' works.
Why do people praise 'female empowerment', when no one can even define what a 'woman' is?
What's so good or special about women being powerful? Why can't we admit that women are already powerful, just in a DIFFERENT way than men are powerful?
Women have a powerful 'yin' power, men have powerful 'yang' power. They are opposite and complementary forces. To put it simply, yang expands, yin contracts. Those are universal forces that keep everything in existence .. well, in existence. Down to the sub-atomic level, these are the fundamental cosmic forces.
Something either expands or contracts. Space is yang, because it's freely-flowing expansive energy, planets are yin, because they are contracted mass and keep contracting into a tighter mass. These forces are equally powerful.
Obviously a human being is more complicated than that, so no one is fully yin or fully yang, we all have both forces in multiple ways on multiple levels, each chakra circles a certain direction, which makes it either yin or yang, and with genders, they circle the opposite directions, but both genders still have both forces.
These forces and their power is fundamentally seen in psychology, behaviour and physique - plus of course the obvious, genitalia. A hole describes yin, a protrusion describes yang. Put them together, and the miracle of birth happens.
Men seek to expand, so that's why they go out of the house to 'conquer the world', and then return to base to rest. This base should invigorate the man so they can go out into the world to use their expansive energy again the next day.
Women seek to contract, so they are interested in decorating the home and biologically and psychologically, they are more fit to take care of details, repetitive tasks and stay at home with the babies/kids.
Obviously, us being souls first, and using physical bodies second, as a temporary thing, we don't always fit these biological/psychological/behavioural roles completely. A woman can yearn to travel, a man can wish to be a decorative designer and to just stay at home and tinker with a computer.
This is probably where all the shaming comes from, 'the nerd living in their mom's basement that never goes out'. It's a great shame for a yang being to never expand and go out, but it's never a shame for a woman for some reason.
Female empowerment? What is that supposed to even mean, realistically speaking? How do you give someone any power, and why is it SO important to 'empower' females (don't women HATE being called females anyway?), but not males?
If you look at the world, women already HAVE all the powers they possibly can have, while men don't. Women can b1tchslap men and screamnag in strangers' faces without anyone punching back. This is a VERY powerful privilege to have, men can't even dream of doing that.
Women have institutions, governmental programs, everyone respects a 'mom', and this whole 'boss b1tch'-stuff has gotten out of hand. Yet females need more power?
Tell me, WHAT do females need power for, what power do they NOT have that men have?