On female fighters getting hurt
Nov. 16th, 2007 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ingvildTake a look at this clip from the animated movie Street Fighter.
The woman, Chun Li, is bleeding, her shirt is torn, and there are numerous cleavage and panty shots. When her male friend arrives, she's so weak from blood loss that she just manages to reveal the name of her assailant, before she passes out and has to be taken to the hospital.
And yet, it doesn't matter. Because she hits her opponent with a lamp, throws a couch at him, and kicks him trough a wall.
I don't mind female fighters in fiction getting hurt. And they can't all be Wonder Woman, for whom getting her wrist broken is a mere minor setback. What I do mind, however, is when they don't get to get in a single punch.
The woman, Chun Li, is bleeding, her shirt is torn, and there are numerous cleavage and panty shots. When her male friend arrives, she's so weak from blood loss that she just manages to reveal the name of her assailant, before she passes out and has to be taken to the hospital.
And yet, it doesn't matter. Because she hits her opponent with a lamp, throws a couch at him, and kicks him trough a wall.
I don't mind female fighters in fiction getting hurt. And they can't all be Wonder Woman, for whom getting her wrist broken is a mere minor setback. What I do mind, however, is when they don't get to get in a single punch.
