Men fighting women on Xena
Did others cringe when they saw a woman being pummeled at the hands of a male? In some instances it just seemed so wrong, like in TTB, when Ares, a god no less, punches Xena in the face. Did anyone...
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I didn't have any problems. We saw Xena kicking butt on a regular basis. Why would seeing her getting punched by a man be any more affecting than seeing her punching a man? The only time I was...
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Like Lavendar Jane said, on the show, women were shown as being capable of being equal to men (if they were warriors, that is). So, seeing women getting hit by men was no different than seeing men...
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I didn't really have a problem with it. It's not like Xena was defenseless; she gave back as good as, if not better than, she got. I can't recall any males brutally attacking Xena (apart from the...
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I think the issue is not men vs women but strong vs weak. Ares beating Xena like that in TTB was disturbing because she basically wasn't fighting at that point and he was just brutally hitting her in...
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nah, didn't bother me at all. My girl was handlin' what ever was presented. No matter who it was she faced, she gave back as good or better than she got, and when an opponent spanked her pretty well,...
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What about other women besides the almighty Xena? How about young Gabrielle facing Theodorus in ROC or Glaphyra in TDHD? Ares: "Now summon forth that super-mortal strength of yours." - The Reckoning...
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Hmm, well -- by then Gabrielle was fighting pretty well with a staff, no? I also don't recall there being shown any significant violence from Theodorus to Gabrielle. Icons by Kimber and Cila (Aria...
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Oops, the scene I was referencing is actually from 'Callisto' not ROC. Quote:Hmm, well -- by then Gabrielle was fighting pretty well with a staff, no? I also don't recall there being shown any...
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The scene on TTB did make me cringe... I don't think I had a problem with the scene itself, more that cringing is my natural reaction to that... I didn't really view that scene as all that brutal but...
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Yeah actually, you know... that scene in AN where Ares beats the s**t out of Callisto made me cringe a little as well. Have to admit that. Icons by Kimber and Cila (Aria Icons); avatar by TangoHave...
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Didn't bug me. It would have bugged me if the violence came off as being misogynistic--that is to say, if Xena et al. had been threatened with violence specifically because she was a woman--but iirc,...
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Oh yeah, I remember that scene from Callisto. Again though, it was in the context of a fight -- Theo was able to get the better of Gabs that time, but generally she was quite able to take care of...
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I think the scene in Who is Ghurkan made me have goose bumps. Because Xena was beaten up so bad from 2 male guard?She was defenseless, tied up, and that was terrible.
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Yes, it did bother me, but then I did a quick double-think, knowing that she'd come out of it OK. I do have an automatic reaction to women being brutalized, even by other women. That is when I tell...
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That was it for me too... an automatic reaction... The end of TTB really did "feel" like a violence against women thing to the extent that I wondered if TPTB were trying to make a point about women...
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Agree about WG and the misogynistic overtones. That's the one beating on the show that I really wish they'd left out altogether. Seeing Joxer getting beaten up in King Con was pretty disturbing,...
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I don't have a problem with it when it's a fight both entered. I'm one of those people that thinks that women should not be allowed to hit men when men are not allowed to hit women. The fact was, this...
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I totally agree with Elfrieda and DD. That was one great thing about X:WP, women were never seen as being entitled to any kind of special consideration because they were women.The beating in TTB did...
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Quote:Yeah actually, you know... that scene in AN where Ares beats the s**t out of Callisto made me cringe a little as well. Have to admit that.It made me cringe too. I think it was because Calli...
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