Yes, there should be women in action movies. Yes, I'm sleeping with someone on that team inbetween shooting motherfuckers. Hell, I'll sleep with all of them.

I am ita. IDK, I think Aisha beats the heck out of pretty much any woman in any James Bond movie, like, EVER. ::waits for counterexample::

::waits for counterexample::

Michelle Yeoh?

Which one was she in? I haven't seen the last few. I'll take Aisha over Christmas Jones, for example.

I remain still impressed with Deadwood. Cause, on the one hand, I thought I was gonna be pissed off that most of the women were hookers. But they were fully realized and made their own choices as much as they could in the era.

I remarked, when I was watching Deadwood, that it had more fully-characterized women with agency in it than Supernatural, even though it was set at a time when women couldn't own property or vote. And when the virgin/whore dichotomy was pretty strictly enforced.

Man, I loved Trixie. And Jane. And Jewel. All of 'em, really--they were real.

The World Is Not Enough

Crouching Tigers.

Crouching Tigers.

There weren't any Bond women in that.

What I love about the Alien movies is that Ripley is badass and no one is surprised. I'm beginning to feel like a crotchety old woman about sex scenes that do not have anything to do with the action. I find myself muttering, "Shouldn't you be boarding up more windows or checking the ammo? You can't wait until you get somewhere safer?"

Yeah, Consuela...this. Even though I still love female ass-kickers, I think it's important to remember that that isn't the only way to have a great female character.

There weren't any Bond women in that.

I know. I didn't realize it was only Bond movies being discussed. It's the first place I go to when I see "Michelle Yeoh".