Female Action Heroes Fighting with Legs is Now ‘Sexist’

Apparently, they’ve never seen a male action hero or an MMA fight.

Guess what’s now considered sexist? Women action heroes who take down villains with their legs.

It’s not good enough that more action movies feature women protagonists -- and strong, battle-ready ones at that, -- than ever before. Now, there’s a new complaint. In order to reach peak-feminism, our lady hero must fight like a man.

A new video created by Dominick Nero and Fandor Keyframe seeks to show “that female action heroes fight with their legs and thighs while their male counterparts don’t.” (They DO, but these folks aren't paying attention.) Nero calls it the “Between My Legs Takedown.” Compounding the “problem” is that “their bodies are sexualized in their costumes and in combat.” This is a classic liberalism paradox: feminists can dress in any sexy, slutty, or revealing manner they choose but cannot be sexualized if they dress in any sexy, slutty, or revealing manner.

Nero asks, “Is this move even practical, or is it just an excuse for a woman to wrap her thighs around someone’s neck?”

Slate writer Madeline Raynor writes, “There are many female action heroes kicking ass in movies these days, but one of their favored moves smacks of sexism.”

Apparently, these leftists have never seen a mixed martial arts fight or been to a jiu-jitsu class in which this is a basic move. And somehow they've missed decades of male-centric action movies and TV shows in which the hero has dangled above an unsuspecting enemy, wrapped his meaty thighs around their neck, and finished them off in a spine-breaking display of sheer badassness. But now that heroines are doing it, it’s sexist. Again, another classic liberalism paradox: women can do anything a man can do unless they look sexy doing it.

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