[rsrguy]

Hoping this doesn't get parfed but here goes...
For you Dune and scifi aficionados, are you getting worn thin on the obvious pandering in the genre?

With regard to dune, I don't much care about what race/creed is used to depict the Keins role but I don't think a female was a good fit for the dune story.

In my world (reality) women are almost magically capable of taking on and overcoming tremendous obstacles, just not besting 230# male assaults... The propensity for this type of writing in film is ostensibly turning everything made these days into a comic story.

In the entire time I've been a scifi consumer it seemed like much effort was put into extreme adherence to detail and getting the physics correct(even making logical explanations to explain away the illogical). So, unless the story specifically states that a physically dominant female character is the result of genetic breeding or modification... I'm not buying it.

In the Dune saga, the Keins character has been fleshed out as an extreme survivalist.... Not exactly piles of non fiction female survival books out there... Also the freman society was written to be a patriarchy... Not likely they would accept a female as a prophet.. So, it's really hard to accept what the new film has done with their autistic license, may has well cast smurfette.

Woke culture tends to mythisize reality about everything from societal roles and sexual nonsense to the role of government. My guess for the cause? Probably too much fantasy, to much effort to warp reality to fit the cosplay mentality.

I'm up to my eyeballs with this physically dominant alfa female that's always portrayed as SOIR (the smartest in the room) that can kick everyone and things ass.... AND, also solve the most extreme physics challenges, whilst all the males are portrayed as beta red shirts. When in reality it takes a lifetime of training to be a combat specialist or an intellectual giant...

An example, Lex Friedman is an intellectual giant and a guy that is heavily into mma and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, he trains regularly. The reality is he's only really capable of competing on par with someone in his weight class. If I (currently 6'1" 270# & out of shape) were to bear hug and fall on him, he would break like a twig...
This is the perspective I see female combatants from.

That's why we used to see so much teamwork in film not so much anymore, strong female protagonist, dumb male narcissistic antagonist, hmm, let's go remake all the old Hollywood stock and a new pile of steaming $c#iedt! That's why I'm watching less and less cinema these days, the kungflu virus had nothing to do with it.

-G