How exactly did longbows, known for requiring significant arm strength, end up becoming the Default Female Protagonist Weapon? Is it just Hunger Games?
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But the thing is that fighting in hand-to-hand combat involves a lot of other stuff that women are typically disadvantaged by (mostly just sheer size and reach), especially women modern audiences find attractive It's easier to fake the archery
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The thing is, in a lot of the properties I'm thinking of, firearms exist. Definitely true in Hunger Games and The Last of Us, but both chose to make the female lead's iconic weapon a bow Makes less sense in TLOU than Hunger Games but still
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Though a lot of films treat the archery as more like you would a hunting bow or short bow, so as to get in the cool Legolas style stunts. So it's not like we should necessarily be treating these bows as having the draw strength of a long bow.
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I'm just going off of their size as usually depicted, and their typically instant lethality
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