I agree that Women in entertainment have been pressed, if you will, into this pathetic mould forcing upon them one of two personas: Tough and unapproachable (IE Terminatrix, Laura crotch, Resident Boobil, etc.), Weak and useless (all other women in the entertainment biz) I guess Hollywood wants us to stop breeding because they constantly impose this belief that women should ALL be 5′ 9″, a buck ten, and ether so unbelievably stupid as to actually DESERVE a mercy killing (I’m reminded of Drew Barrymore in the intro for scream), or so unbelievably butch as to insinuate that ether A) you aren’t MAN enough to mate with one such as this (Angelina Jolie as Laura Croft), or B) you’re not WOMAN enough to ‘fake-mate’ with this bull-dyke (Michelle Rodriguez in Resident Evil).

Sorry for the crass descriptions, but frankly, yeah, as Renfield said, It’s there it’s done it’s real.

I just thought of another believably tough female character… the witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. She did a good job (believable, I mean).

Now that I think about it, I think it’s less about behavior and more about acting ability. I think if a female character has superb acting ability, they can portray anything from really tough to screamy pansy. But that’s just my opinion.

Still, I’d get pretty annoyed also, if a bimbo just screamed at everything during the whole movie. I’d start HOPING she’d get shot/eaten/cut/burned/assimilated/whatever. It’s not good to make a “good-guy” character that people want to see die.