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Pop Culture Needs More Briennes of Tarth
“A few months ago, my husband was watching “Hunted” on Cinemax while I was puttering around on the series of tubes, and after one particularly action-packed sequence where the female lead dispatches a whole posse of would-be assassins, he says, “I don’t mean to be sexist, but I can’t believe that she can just beat up all of those huge men like that. Look at her! She’s so skinny!”
“But that’s not sexist,” I told him. “It’s actually true.”
After a few minutes, he switched over to the UConn/Notre Dame women’s basketball game and we watched that instead. At some point, UConn center Stefanie Dolson made a solid rebound, and I said, “Why don’t we ever see female action heroes that look like Stefanie Dolson? I’m way more likely to buy that she can beat up a bunch of guys than most of the actresses in these shows…. (read more)”
