More Female Worship Makes Bad TV

Wow, nice strawman argument. Because that's totally what he said or implied.

I took the OP's post not as a "hatred of women", as you assert, so much as he's pointing out a tired trope that has been played to the nth degree in films and television. Something I would like to point out that the producers missed with this Dorothy, is that she does not look or act like she's from Kansas. I'm from Kansas originally;a small town called Enterprise, more specifically.

In casting this Dorothy, they could not have got it more wrong. Typically, the average country girl from Kansas has more meat on her bones. Sometimes a lot more, because those girls like to eat. They tend to work hard, and wear sometimes outdated or just unfashionable clothes. Makeup is used sparingly. And, sorry to offend the PC types reading this, but they're mostly white. I'm not saying this to piss people off. I'm just pointing out that is what the norm is in most small Kansas towns.

I do find it curious that women like the ones I just described tend to be left out of Hollywood portrayals of "empowered" women. Apparently, media treatment of empowerment is only granted to women who can look plain Jane, but easily be transformed into sexy vixen, or warrior queen when the script calls for it. Let's be honest. Hollywood is very hypocritical when it comes to their double-standards regarding what they call empowerment. They actually mock women like the ones I described. If they get any representation at all, it's as the crass, loudmouthed, oafish sidekick, not unlike the way men who are not physically attractive or overweight are portrayed in comparison to someone like Chris Hemsworth. In this sense, the sexes are treated equally when their looks fall short of Hollywood's beauty standards. Like dirt.

You're such a mess, the train wreck stops to watch you!

Exactly, the story is over a hundred years old and L. Frank Baum was a supporter of women's suffrage.

"Sally Roesch Wagner of The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation has published a pamphlet titled The Wonderful Mother of Oz describing how Matilda Gage's feminist politics were sympathetically channeled by Baum into his Oz books. Much of the politics in the Republican Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer dealt with trying to convince the populace to vote for women's suffrage. Baum was the secretary of Aberdeen's Woman's Suffrage Club. Susan B. Anthony visited Aberdeen and stayed with the Baums.

Some of Baum's contacts with suffragists of his day seem to have inspired much of his second Oz story The Marvelous Land of Oz. In this story, General Jinjur leads the girls and women of Oz in a revolt, armed with knitting needles; they succeed and make the men do the household chores."

And how does that at all negate them writing a GOOD female character, instead of yet another Mary Sue that can do no wrong, and everyone loves, and is secretly beautiful even though she always thought she was just an average girl?

Honestly. People see "This female character sucks" nowadays and immediately assume it's because it's a woman, when really it's just a *beep* character who happens to be a woman.

No-one cares if she's a woman.

People care that she's an extremely poorly written character, who seems to fall for every common trope that exists for female leads since Twilight.

Nowhere did the OP say there needs to be fewer women leads, he's asking why every female lead has to be perfect.