Yeah, that's true. There's way more Male eye candy than Female. And hey, I've seen enough use of it the other way around in other media that I can't get mad at it. But, Ollie seems to always be shirtless. Hell, they even managed to get Ray (Brandon Routh) shirtless this season.
I'm a man, and I consider myself a feminist. I believe in treating both genders equally, and I do believe there can be really distasteful ways of displaying women onscreen or in any story. So, I've really tried to think about how women have been treated on Arrow this season, going back to the tweet I quoted in my previous post.
And...I got nothing. I think S. Grundy is right.
(I'll play it safe and try to be vague with spoilers) I mean, yes there was a major female character that was killed. But, that didn't motivate the male lead. Hell, it kinda made him look cold hearted with how little it has motivated him emotionaly (on purpose, I'm sure). I mean, he's got purpose but he seems to be doing it out of duty. Instead, the death of that female character is what's motivating another female character.
And then I thought about the episode where she got beat up for trying to protect another woman, a victim of abuse. But, they were treating her like a real character and not some superwoman. They were treating her like they would treat a male character. It looked equatable to how Bruce Wayne had failed his first night in Batman Year One, where he wound up getting stabbed in the leg and shot by police, almost dying.
This whole thing has reminded me about some false alarms we can get from misdirected outrage. And man, that worries me. I'm all for holding sexist *******s accountable. But, seeing the outrage wrongfully misdirected just bothers me alot.
