“We’ve always been waiting for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.”
Although the past 50 years show the increasing number of women going out to work, and feminism rising to bring equality, why are women still portrayed as a “sex object.” Although this quote in the one hand says that women are portrayed as role models and idols for the rest of the female society, it yet again shows the stereotypical view of a women. Is this still the case with the superhero genre. Originally superheroes was a male dominated genre, the hero being a strong, powerful man, and female characters were simply subordinate and inferior. However, Heroes seems to represent women more equally, the protagonist: Claire, who is central to all the other characters and the main plot, taking the lead role.
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