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[HaughtyFrank]

People don't mind female leads

they mind the female lead that is boringly sanded down to nothingness to appease a small minority of people who actually hate women. The no emotions because you don't want it to seem like women are too emotional. No smiling because dudes totally ask women to smile more as if its the 1920's. 

Small aside but I found it absolutely hilarious that the first Captain Marvel movie does the whole "dude tells her to smile, she steals his motorcycle in retaliation" thing, and then the second movie has a scene on that musical planet (don't ask) where a guy tells the black woman to "be more cheerful" but it's completely played off as a joke. Like they can't even keep it consistent