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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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It's ironically an excuse to show more chicks with big guns, but sadly one which is not sufficiently capitalized upon
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Replying to @FartCaptor @BootlegGirl
The irony is the sheer strength needed to successfully use a longbow is more than that needed to use a sword, it's one reason that longbows were a "secret weapon" of the English, you couldn't raise a troop of longbowmen unless they'd been training since childhood
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @FartCaptor
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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Replying to @BootlegGirl @FartCaptor
Yeah the coding of firearms as more masculine than archery is absolutely an irrational cultural thing
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Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead" is one of the best songs about guns, because it's about a gun being an ultimate equalizer of physical strength A woman who's been casually slapped around by her husband finally having enough
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I am not a pro-gun person, at all, but if I were I would lean on this argument more than any other -- that all the stuff that makes guns frightening is what's also appealing about them, that they make physical strength and numbers way less relevant Armed Gays Don't Get Bashed
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If I want to fight someone twice my size with my hands, or I want to fight two other people with my hands, the outcome is pretty preordained If I have a gun, or even if all of us have guns, the outcome is suddenly way more uncertain
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The most convincing pro-gun argument I've seen was the one saying "I don't carry because I'm worried I'm 'not man enough', I carry a gun because I KNOW it's impossible to be man enough to be more powerful than even the tiniest, weakest firearm"
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Doesnt that support the gun control team because it means youd be fine carrying around something like a .38 pistol instead of an Ar-15 for example? So if anything that works as a compromise
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Replying to @eldritchcheese @arthur_affect and
For sure — the fact that an AR-15 is almost useless for personal defense has been a staple gun-control argument for decades — and for the same reason, only recently did they even sell well (a change in fashion)
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