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That's been a theme on TV for years, primarily for comedic purposes (Simpsons, Family Guy and even the Honeymooners). Is it any worse than a smart husband with an idiot wife? It's not a "last 5 or 10 years thing." It's been going on for decades. How many kids would watch a show where the parents were smarter and had more experience and set appropriate boundaries? How many kids would watch a show where the kids were niave and greatly limited in what they could accomplish?

Isn't this sort of thing the reason that many, many movies are popular. The main character is someone that the target audience wants to be like, wants to fantasize about being like or can/wants to identify with. Jame Bond, license to kill, Bourne movies, Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, , Rambo, Rocky, Fast and Furious, whatever, etc.... All of those movies are about either fantasy men or the .001% of men, and men love them because men want to imagine themselves like them. Those movies are still being made.

If a movie is targetted at kids, teens, girls, women, etc..., the movie is likely to put the target audience on the strong side so that they are superior to others which makes the target like the movie.

I'm not "woke" and I think most of the social justice stuff that's going on in the world is ridiculous, but I feel like when this subject comes up here, it's not because "every movie these days has an incompetent, impotent man and a super woman that saves the day" which is what is proposed. It's because not every movie has a man as the main super hero.

We still get plenty of badassed male characters, there are just more characters now that are female and badassed. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Is it unrealistic, sure, but so are the movies where the main character is a man. Right, one guy, with a rolled up magazine or bath towel just single handedly fought off two dozen killers with guns and knives and has barely broken a sweat.