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rainbow-femme:

So whenever i would watch movies and see The Badass Female Character fighting in various ways, something about it always bugged me. I just assumed it was internalized misogyny that made me dislike characters like black widow and Tauriel and tried to make myself like them.

Then I was rewatching Mad Max Fury Road the other day and I noticed that nothing bothered me about watching Furiosa fight and I realized the problem wasn’t watching women fight in movies that got on my nerves.

Watching the stereotypical Badass Female Character she always has these effortless moves and a cocky, sexy smirk on her face as everything is easy. Watching Furiosa, she grunted and bared her teeth. Her fighting was hard and it took effort and it hurt like fighting is supposed to. For once her fighting style wasn’t supposed to seduce the audience it was to be effective.

I wasn’t disliking these characters because they were women I was disliking that their fighting was meant to remind me they were women. High heels and shapely outfits and not showing effort or discomfort because it’s more attractive to effortlessly lift a long leather clad leg over your head rather than rugby tackle someone.

It’s the same with the Wonder Woman movie too. Fighting is hard and it takes effort, blocking bombs and bullets with a shield makes her grimace and bare her teeth with the effort it takes. She’s not flip kicking bombs she’s yelling and straining, not because she’s weak or bad at fighting but because that’s what it would be like.

I really hope we’re moving into an era of women having fighting styles designed for realism and not how hot it looks for the men in the audience.

THIS.

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So you wanna have a lightsaber battle without costing an arm and a leg…

Wanna clash with your Jedi and Sith buddies without hurting each other or your wallet?

You may have seen ideas for DIY lightsabers for kids online, but they usually call for pool noodles and duct tape.

Unfortunately, I’ve found that using pool noodles involves three problems:

1. Pool noodles are rather expensive (since they have to be built for water safety standards)
2. Pool noodles tend to be seasonal items that can typically be found only in the summer
3. Pool noodles are considerably thicker than you probably want a lightsaber to look

With that in mind, allow me to propose an alternative:

Pipe insulators can be found at nearly any hardware store year-round, they’re ridiculously inexpensive, and they come in a wide variety of widths.

Now obviously this doesn’t look anything like a lightsaber, which leads me to Part 2 of the lightsaber construction process:

Colored duct tape can also be found at most hardware stores, is fairly inexpensive, and provides a much better selection of colors than most pool noodles. Just wrap this stuff around the lightsaber “blade” area, and start battling for the fate of the galaxy!

May the Force be with you

(i hate being that person, I’m so sorry, delete my comment, but I can’t go on letting people think that look noodles are built to water safety standards. They are NOT and they are NO substitute for a proper flotation device. Please do not use them as such, and keep an eye on your children who may use them to go deeper than they are able to swim)

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