Has the age of the female super hero arrived?

In common with some other Rust staffers, I’m sufficiently dinosaur in my attitudes to the world that as a matter of principle I regard ‘positive action’, e.g. the concept of women-only political party shortlists and the BBC’s insistence upon awarding semi-equal coverage to female sport – e.g. the Football Association’s Women’s Super League football results – as it does to the Premier League’s as worthy of ridicule.

Don’t get me wrong. I know and acknowledge all the arguments maintaining that ‘equal treatment’ will promote more females to take exercise and get into sport – help fight the obesity and health crises and so on – but at the end of the day you cannot fight nature and you cannot get around the ultimate factor … that of ‘bums on seats’.

We also tend to hear a lot in the media about the ‘unequal’ status of women in Hollywood and the sexist and ageist undercurrents that infest the movie industry generally.

Here’s a link to an interesting article by Guy Lodge reviewing the uneven history of films attempting to establish female (comic book-based originally) super hero movies franchises – as appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN