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What is so wrong with the damsel in distress?

posted 8 years ago by LukeLovesFilm28
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This is how most women get when faced with terrifying situations. We still see it in modern horror films. At least, they're trying to be real. Do people want women to stay away from men? Do they want men to not give a sh!t or not know when to be a hero? If women don't need men, they can't actually love men. Look at hypergamy. Women will throw men under the bus more often for being unemployed or being a "loser" or "deadbeat" than the other way around.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

[–] Block-Busted 8 years ago

That's because given the subject matter, making the main character a damsel in distress would be a horrible idea. Remember 'Jupiter Ascending'?

But then again, you once said that women in the old days enjoyed getting raped, so...

[–] q_leo_rahman 8 years ago

This is Disney, its trademark is strong female figures.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

They were more real in the time of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White.

This is reality:

http://love.allwomenstalk.com/reasons-men-cant-resist-a-damsel-in-distress

Women hardly ever risk their lives to save their men. It's an historical fact. That does not make them bad or weak. It just makes them real, human, women.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

[–] Block-Busted 8 years ago

Dude, this is an adventure film, for crying out loud! Didn't I mention what happened the last time an adventure film had a damsel in distress as a main character?

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

LOL. Jupiter Ascending? That was ALWAYS going to be a terrible film, regardless of how strong the female lead is or isn't.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

[–] Block-Busted 8 years ago

Well, damsel in distress certainly made it worse.

The thing is, when it comes to an adventure film, the main character is someone you should be able to root for. Giving the main character nothing to do in an adventure film would certainly tank the film.

[–] EffMJay 8 years ago

"Women hardly ever risk their lives to save their men. It's an historical fact."

Said no historian ever.

[–] carrot_handvo 8 years ago

"Women hardly ever risk their lives to save their men. It's an historical fact."

Said no historian ever.

Wrong. That is a historical fact.

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

But then again, you once said that women in the old days enjoyed getting raped, so...

You're an ignorant moron, because I've clarified what I meant since.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

[–] Block-Busted 8 years ago

Yeah? Tell me what you've said since then because you've clearly said that in the past, women enjoyed sex - rape or not, because there's no excuse of saying things like that. Not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow, not EVER.

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

It's called ignorance, dumbass. If they don't know it's rape, it's only rape by our standards. Like tomorrow, feminists might come up with a whole new definition for rape... like the male gaze. The point is women set standards and create weasels like you, judging people based on ignorance.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

[–] Block-Busted 8 years ago

It's called ignorance, dumbass. If they don't know it's rape, it's only rape by our standards. Like tomorrow, feminists might come up with a whole new definition for rape... like the male gaze. The point is women set standards and create weasels like you, judging people based on ignorance.

Yeah, please take that disrespectful BS to Return of Kings...

[–] EffMJay 8 years ago

Just another Russian troll. Don't feed it.

[–] avlis-nec 8 years ago

I´m not sure what your post has to do with the movie, but, no, I don´t think being a woman and damsel in distress is a bad or wrong thing. It does happen and if the reasons are belivable I don´t see why not. Only because men are physicly stronger doesn´t mean they are better them women, the same with woman, only because they find other ways to solve things it does not make them better then men.
Disney has a long history of making strong woman who start of as "damsels in distress" but are nevertheless strong and a great roll models. Not everybody needs to be "strong".
Jane Potter from Tarzan is a good exemple. She is out of her enviroment and of course she did not know how to live in the jungle. Would you know? Of course not.
Moana has to learn, not just how to use a canu. If being human means to be a damsel in distress then, we all are.

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[–] cstu11 8 years ago

This is how most women get when faced with terrifying situations. We still see it in modern horror films. At least, they're trying to be real. Do people want women to stay away from men? Do they want men to not give a sh!t or not know when to be a hero? If women don't need men, they can't actually love men. Look at hypergamy. Women will throw men under the bus more often for being unemployed or being a "loser" or "deadbeat" than the other way around.

I see we got us a MGTOW. Did your girlfriend leave you for a Chad?

[–] UnvoicedApollo1 8 years ago

All those macho men tropes are what get men into trouble.