lucky that there was zero wind at the top of 75-floor building that day. (not calling it fake, it's not dense like Manhattan where so many high-rise buildings create strange wind patterns...)

If they make a Russian Tomb Raider movie, she should play Lara Croft.

if she doesn't win the show, she could still play Lara Croft if the movie franchise reboots

Wow. That's some harsh stuff. I hope it gets ported to pc. Also, I really wish for once they would reverse the stereotype and have a kick-ass woman lead with a male side-kick (and I do not mean a skimpy pornstar à la Lara Croft).

Okay, this has gotten pathetic.

Some of you are hopping on your soapbox and declaring women to be mindless nimrods who've fallen victim to some insidious plot by evil male dominated advertising agencies. Women aren't idiots. They're not infants. They're capable of the critical perspectives any human is capable of, and that includes syphoning out the bullshit in shitty retouched ads.

Advertisers create specific visions of what they (or the creative directors) think are beautiful, whether that's anorexic girls, beefcake men, gender-neutral models or fucking Lara Croft/Sucker Punch badasses. You're all persecuting the advertisers because they're not putting fat and unattractive people in ads. But who wants to see that?

This has nothing to do with equality or feminism. This is just fear politicking motivated by some woman's perverted sense of feminism. I accept women as my complete equal in every regard, and I love my fiancée and think she's the most beautiful woman I will ever know and every word from her mouth is a blissful miracle to my ears, but don't think for a second I don't check out other women who are thin, young and attractive. And that ain't because some douchebag at the advertising agency told me that's what I should I like. No. That's because I'm an instinctual animal behind these opposable thumbs and cognitive thought, and my brain tells my dick what I like and it ain't gelatinous thighs and muffin shaped asses.

Most movies and stories in general are sexist. Writers are predominantly male, and males writing for females is haard^tm, so they make them weak damsels in distress, because that's easy to write and is eaten up by the male demographic.

When finally theres one of the few movies or games with a female lead, she's usually so over the top that she doesn't seem human - see lara croft. (Same with male protagonists though often.)

Real feminism is exactly what you linked, the notion that women are equal, and with that definition, I'd like to think that most people are feminists. Sadly, some people have feminism distorted to be "women uber alles!" or "you must have 50 % women hired, or you're a sexist" and that's not being equal.

I understand her point but this *is* Hollywood we're talking about. Comfortable, conservative, racist, sexist Hollywood.

And choose better examples to make your point - Shawshank Redemption? Really?

Anyway just off the top of my head I thought of a few films that passed (or I assume they do as I haven't seen them all - correction, I've not seen Charlie's Angels but have seen the rest)

Charlie's Angels
Ghostworld
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Monster (the one about Aileen Wuornos)
Thelma and Louise

So in the context I've described maybe things aren't as bad as you might be led to believe. I'd also imagine that some of her other examples (think I saw Jolie there as Lara Croft) would be seen as models of empowerment despite lacking dialogue with another woman.

Lara Croft's relatives can't stay quiet even with creative witness protection programs what they are today-Sly and the fucking Family Stone....this is as non-linear as it gets folks.....

cheers! luvcroft, err -cruft comin' yr way:)

BTW what a devine cheerlady؟
Lara Croft EYHA

This is so terrible, badly acted, and the chick doesn't look ANYTHING LIKE Lara Croft. I cannot upvote this garbage.

Allison Carrol is Lara Croft ( promoting a game not a film)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7556000/7556131.stm

World's Smallest Burger
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/08/10/worlds-smallest-burger-fries-soda-meal-yummy.html

World's Smallest Balloon
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14501-worlds-smallest-balloon-inflated.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain
http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product/whatsnew/bloody+serial+killer+shower+curtain.do?WT.svl=84002#

Styrofoam Dome Homes
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/styrofoam-dome-homes/

eBay Slot Machines
http://technologizer.com/2008/08/10/ebay-its-a-gamble/

The 10 Oddest City Names
http://blog.hotelclub.com/the-10-oddest-city-names/

GMail outage pours rain on Cloud Computing parade
http://broadstuff.com/archives/1140-GMail-outage-pours-rain-on-Cloud-Computing-parade.html

Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/isaac_hayes__shaft__live_1973?id=L2cHkMwzOiM

Scientists Closer to Invisibility Cloak
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Scientists-Closer-to-Invisibility-Cloak/story.xhtml?story_id=030003EKTENC

John McCain
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/7927/suckerpunchhw9.jpg

Kites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7BB84CAD-258C-4980-A42B-D963F1685E75/

Lego Sushi Sculptures
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/08/11/lego-sushi-sculptures/

McDonalds Visual Kidnapping
http://pingmag.jp/2008/08/11/zevs-visual-kidnapping/

Chuck Norris Facts
http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=chuck

Odd One Out
flickr.com/photos/benpearce/2225087667/
Rocketboom's Andrew Baron to Speak at Portable Film Festival
http://portablefilmfestival.com/symposium.php

Google Streets: Now With Drunks And Fire!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/google_streets_now_with_drunks.php

Protest at Russian Embassy
http://flickr.com/photos/snapperjack/2752846173/

Stella and the Speech Accent Archive
http://accent.gmu.edu/

Twitter Fail Whale
http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png

U is for You
http://images.google.com/images?q=mirror

Beijing opening night lures 15 percent of world
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080811/tv_nm/olympics_viewers_dc

The Beer Belt
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/08/pure_class_and_alcohol_the_bee.php

Monster Segway
http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/08/monster-segway.html

Rocketboom on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/rocketboom

Whats up with pronouncing the letter Z as Zed?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070801222415AAjcFd8

While you do a good job pointing out some perceived flaws, am curious to find out what you would do to reverse this trend? I think alot of what you mention is actually sociological and natural in our society. What you are pushing for is as DjSunKid said an extremist stance of feminism.

While there are women who strive to be the leaders in their profession and achieve something for themselves, there is a large segment of the female population that is quite alright with fitting in the stereotype of being female, of dressing up, of being sexy, of being chased, screeching when they see a mouse and looking for a big strong man. There is a entire industry centered around this. This is a standard that has been psychologically upheld by society as a whole, and women themselves. Something I see alot in the society where I live, the Arab world, very few girls try hard here because why should they? They are going to marry a Arabian Istallion and have kids and shop in Gucci and Versace. They are perfectly happy in that role.

I think some of that is social, some of it is psychological from media exposure, the barbie dolls, the princess stories and so on that build up a psychological outlook that some connect with and accept as their own and some reject.

For example look at someone like Ayn Rand.

I talked to a lot of medical students, some of them were female, most of them were heading to OBYGN and pediatrics, both deal with kids and children. They choose to do so. You will hardly find many women in the role of surgeon for example. Is this discrimination?

Back in University I had a chance to befriend a woman in her 50s who was doing adult education, she looked and acted alot like a man. Probing her previous profession she told me she was a construction foreman. She explained that for co workers and clients to take her seriously she had to adopt a hard exterior, or else no one would have obeyed her as a boss or took her seriously managerially. But she had no quams about this, she said certain businesses require male standpoint, not to mean the sex but the qualities, hard, aggressive and stubborn.

Look at how Hillary Clinton tried to meld her campaign, did it pay for her to play on her female side? did it pay for her to become more manly? Then look at someone like Margaret Thatcher. She was asexual as far as am concerned in her politics.

The equality of sexes has been reached, and there has been large progress since the 1800s and the suffrage movement. Women have the right to vote, work, enter politics, and professional occupations. There is still inequality when it comes to pay scale but I believe this is balancing out now in the world economy because administration and business is gender neutral most of the time. Results are far more important.

But does it mean the higher echelons of power are male dominated? Not at all. Germany, Bangladesh, US and many other nations have females who reached high levels of power. There is an abundance of strong female role models.

With regards to the comments on this website, this is the internet the demographic of this website is in the 18-25 range most are students, many are lonely introverted types. Most are male, some are here before or after being to a porn site. This goes a long way to describe the "Omfg shes hot" type of comments.

With regards to cinema and the like, its business. Its marketing and demographics, one shouldn't read too much into it.

The problem Hollywood has with creating female heroes is that they work on base levels so they push a hard women, which is psychologically constructed in such a way as being Bitchy. This is frankly because people in Hollywood think on those levels, they never deal in complicated characters. They need standardized themes, of conflict, and love and very often a strange sex scene where you didn't expect one.

Take the example of Lara Croft that was made into two films. The video game portrayed her as a smart intelligent royal who did tomb raids. Instead of vividly exploring this, by way of Batman orgins where she say fell into a cave and explored and developed into a tom boy and found a ancient dagger or something, they instead went simply with telling the audience that she is that way because her daddy was like that. Because Hollywood producers are idiots and they are desperately trying to connect and hit that 15-20 year demographic that needs to see a tit.

She absolutely ROCKS. Gogo Lara "Croft" Logan!

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