She succeeds by working smarter, not harder She wins the big battle by pulling the desperate Hail Mary of starting an avalanche Etc
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It feels telling that so many of these warrior women characters produced by sexist patriarchal societies are so typically blatantly superior to most men at fighting. The implication to me seems to be that the original writers thought their Obstacle to Be Overcome was their gender
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Like, the whole ridiculous nerd -2 Strength meme has always been stupid; these stories framed the obstacle not in terms of "your gender prevents you from being a superior warrior" but in terms of "well you need to overcome/surpass/discard the social normative place of Woman."
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Were you one of the people in the conversation last week about Sherlock Holmes, and how part of his superpower is the ability to remember that street kids, servants, and women are all people with eyes and ears and the ability to notice and remember things?
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