You know, I think the entertainment industry maybe targeting pre-existing female led series or franchises
Look at Tomb Raider, may not have played Tomb Raider before, but I think they were trying to go “realistic” and closer to average for Lara Croft’s new look....pants....your booty shorts and leotards and undies need to go otherwise some creator’s daughter can’t cosplay as your character
I actually thought the new Tomb Raider was well done including the movie.
Yes unlike the original they toned down the gaint boobs to something more realistic. But unlike other like Ghostbuster or America comic they did not need to put in any "I am women here me roar" scenes. They showed Lara doing cool things and killing bad guys instead of telling us how she rocks and is better then the men that came before.
It also treated male supporting memeber of the cast well. Unlike Ghostbuster 2016 which made every male a dumb moron. Instead you have Roth. He manages to be a mentor figure and dies in a way befitting any mentor figure in fiction, saving his protege.
The later sequel while not as strong as the frist rebooted game is still a solid game that managed to keep Tomb Raider feeling like Tomb Raider.
While I do think that the movie had some problems with plot changes it overall was one of the better video game movies I have seen. Compared to Warcraft or Doom it is an Oscar worthy film and I rate as a fun popcorn action flick.
But even the movie managed to show Lara growing into her role of Tomb Raider and had a fairly strong Male supporting memeber in Lu Ren. Granted he didn't have a major role but it is a Tomb Raider movie. All the past ones game or movies mainly focus on Lara with everyone else in a secondary role at best so that is not really a hit against the new games or movie.
Now some people have made comments about the smaller boobs or down playing Lara sex symbol status. Granted at frist a lot of the size was just graphics but it did become part of Lara's look it later games.
The early movies with even had Angelina Jolie wearing a padded bar for her films. That along with the loss of the short shorts are the two big physical changes between the older Tomb Raider and new ones look. The new games did managed to keep Lara's base charater while showing feminine traits even if not at the sex object level of the past.
But overall the producers even had to tone down the boobs for the original Tomb Raider movies. I also personally think that Alicia Vikander did a good job as Lara Croft. But I think she is a better actress then Joile and it is a shame she has not hit A list status like Joile while doing simalr roles.
So while the new Lara lost the short shorts and gaint boobs they keep feminine look. She has a tank top that still shows off some skin, long hair and traded the short shorts for tight pants. Unlike the new Batwomen which goes with every butch lesbian stereotype and Captain Marvel which down plays any looks the new Tomb Raider does still have a focus on making Lara look hot just not the same way as the older games did.
) and overall masculinity. To them it was just that they found the way the women were posed to be sexist because it highlights their boobs and their butts, because the people who are sexually attracted to women tend to like those parts, after all, and they also tend to be hypocrites when it comes to men being objectified or just utterly blind to it. So while they were laughing because posing men like women looked silly and thought they were making some point, I was laughing at how what they were doing could be taken as homophobia, because those men were simply being posed in a way that might be considered attractive to gay men who liked bottoms.