Tired of seeing in movies:
• The deconstruction and emasculation of male heroes, because GIRL POWER!
• Female main characters who are Mary Sues—no flaws, no struggles to earn their way to positive change. They’re born perfect. Rey in Star Wars, Captain Marvel, Mary Suhura in Strange New Hair… it’s a long, long list.
• Impotent, comically unthreatening villains, usually there so the Mary Sue female main character can best him in every encounter. A hero is only as strong as the antagonist he or she defeats. If the hero wins every encounter, what’s the villain even doing there? What can the hero learn? Why should the hero undergo change? Contrast the feckless Yon-Rogg from Captain Marvel with the alien in Alien. Ripley earns her survival and triumph through life-threatening struggle, resourcefulness, and sheer courage. Marvel “has nothing to prove.”
• Shows and films that promise a male hero we’ve enjoyed for years, only to bait-and-switch by using him as a door mat for a preferred female character. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest Thor, Luke Skywalker.
I could go on, but it boils down to this: good writing, strong writing, has all but disappeared in favor of woke wish-fulfillment. I’m sick of it.