The cancel culture mob is upset over a piece of media, this time it’s because a girl character in a television show based on a video game did something that they were OUTRAGED about. A fictional character was able to defeat a man in an unarmed struggle. Her being smaller, and a female versus him being bigger and man defied all mathematics and reason to them. It was apparently unrealistic. For me personally, as far as fight scenes go and the context for her “win”, it was done pretty well.

There was no Marvel spinning, parkour and acrobatic excess which we have become used to when we see a female protagonatist in action, whether it’s against zombies in Resident Evil or Werewolves or Vampires or even men in Underworld or Comic Book movie #45666. No lazy Bourne choppy up close cut scenes hiding the actors inability. No Gun Fu of John Wick. Instead we saw a good display of ground fighting and grappling which showcased a potential outcome in a fictional medium.

Women have defeated men in fights, in those unsanctioned and sanctioned. They have defended themselves in unarmed combat against men, fought themselves free of rape and managed to defeat a domestic abuser or mugger. It does happen. I have known women who have done this and there are incidents on film, many recorded, reported where this happens. Many rapes and assaults occur when the victim is attacked from a trusted loved one, are ambushed or they do not fight back due to fear or the surreal violent intimacy of the moment. The nature of violence women face will differ from men, who generally don’t encounter ambush scenarios like those mentioned but deal with confrontational violence.

In this case the propaganda is not that women can beat any man but rather, we must believe that any man can beat every woman.

Many males think that they can fight, many women think that they do not need to know how to fight. Few women are willing to learn or practice the arts of violence, and few men think that they need to. This is a disparity in view points. Males that do train are generally doing it for the mirror, they may stand in front of the mirror and hope that the Tren, phonk music and shadows will alleviate them to a point of Anime might. One curl, or press or lift at a time. This for whatever reason in some minds makes them violent and capable of dominating another human in unarmed combat. Or those males who train martial arts and combat sports do so as a hobby or to play a sport. Very few males now train for self defence and less to be a protector.

Or many males may just play games, that anger and indignation or rage that they express is enough. “I am so angry!” the entitled male roars as though this is even an attribute at all. The discipline of study, the humility of work and distance of experience is a rare thing. Especially in an age where autism and mental health and entitlement are the premier identifiers for many individuals. The age of identity politics has created a collectivist derangement, where a person is no longer an individual but instead a gender, race, sex, mental condition, religion, what console they play, whatever. These identifiers become identity and how one treats and calibrates others abilities or even worth. The character of an individual lost, everything is instead cosplay or an avatar of insincerity. Entitlement.

In the case of women in the combat sports or martial arts we continue to see a demented denial of their hard work and capabilities. A woman going on a date with a new man is always leery of mentioning her training or sports background because it will usually be down played as useless or he may spin it into a flirty slur, “I bet I could take you.” Many are drawn to the training as a need to protect themselves because of a fear of being attacked, or because they already have been.

Those of us, especially heavyweights, who played the violent sports and continue to train daily know how hard it is to find training partners, especially those competent. We are grateful for any who one turns up. In the past, when preparing for a heavyweight cage fight which I took on short notice, much of the training that I did was with an ex, who was forty kilograms lighter than me. We adjusted. She turned up ever time. It’s hard to find good training partners, especially for heavier fighters. I managed to win via first round submission, despite a lack of time for camp and having to mostly drill with her. We are grateful for those who are willing to help. For a combat athlete having people to train with that don’t make it all about themselves or act as a reckless entity in the gym. Or for those who want to train beyond sports, finding those who want to train for real violence, self defence or otherwise.

For a lady this problem is even more apparent. She is often expected to train with men and those bigger than her. Males generally are less flexible and rigid, so this means the take downs and ground aspect can vary to what can be expected if she is to compete against another woman. Men, especially when frustrated and fatigued may also rely on strength and power, rather than their minds or technique. Risk of injury from even just drilling is ever apparent. This means that a lot of ladies develop an adaptive mindset in training, they tend to “take what they can get.” Whereas those spoiled for choice, usually dudes under Middleweight, may gain an entitled mindset in the gym and with obsess with their “careers” or “training,” making poor gym partners. Despite such an abundance of similar weight and shaped bodies, they can develop a ‘main character’ syndrome. (Not all of you…;)

As for the current outrage, it will pass, but the experts will use a clip of a man in an armlock, who stands up on a lady who isn’t trying to finish the lock as…evidence?

Train much?

I guess when the world is in the screen, the news feed is your life and those memes and avatars that you engage with is your sustenance, one gains a limited insight. When streaming and gaming, sprites and pixels is the main form of input that you receive, what do you really know?

And then those manly men outside the digital, who know that, generally speaking women are ‘weaker’ than men. Sure. But, that does not mean that such strength ensure certain victory. There are some ladies who train, smart and hard and would do very well, have won.

Cue footage of Lucia Rijker getting knocked out or mentions about trans fighter, Fallon Fox who was also defeated by a biological, cis, whatever fucking PC word thing it is for a woman these days. Yes, a transitioned male, who became a transgender woman injured a biological woman in the cage. And yes, that same transgender woman had her ass beat by a biological woman in the cage as well.

But, no one talks about Ashlee Evans Smith because memers don’t like reality, only narratives.

Such is fighting. Ever tried it?

“Yeah, but Jon Jones would beat any female fighter…”

Yeah, and most males too.

We don’t need to cuckold the abilities and discipline of others to represent oneself. Individual combat is about individuals. Whether a man beats a woman, or vice versa that is two individuals locked in combat. If you derive joy or a sense of accomplishment from that outcome, because of a persons gender, then maybe you need to get out of the cuck chair and climb into the bed yourself to gain a better view. BUT, seeing as that seem to be most peoples thing in regards to many things, your opinion is just that and you won’t know what you don’t know.

As a father, son, brother, husband, boyfriend or a man and if your view is that a woman should simply yield, comply when attacked and never learn or practice self defence or how to fight. That she should never turn up, never try, never fight, never defend. That says everything about you, and nothing about her. If that is the case, then boy, you better man the fuck up and be the most capable in all facets of skill at arms, unarmed combat, if they are expected to be dependent on your ability to protect them. If they must, rely on you.

Back to the show based on the game. I am told that I should be outraged because the algorithm slut memers and content creators told me, the girl playing the role is wrong and should be cancelled. The show itself is a terrible adaption. It’s woke or not ideologically pure or that it deviated from the game to much. Whatever. I am not writing about any of those points of politically correctness and contention made by the detractors, only that the scene itself was decent. There was no mostly boys throwing popcorn at a screen and cheering over a craft that mines while I watched this. That in itself was refreshing, or is that how game adaptions must be viewed now?

I would go so far as to say, seeing a scene with such choreography, would entice me to watch a show like that. But, I am checked out on game and comic adaptions, I think I am done with IP slop made by corporations just for the sake of, content creation and because people will watch it regardless. People will also make money-careers from reviewing and hating such slop. Whether it’s slop or not, whether it’s too Left, too Right or woke or not doesn’t matter. The sequence was pretty cool. Now, I gotta go train. See you there.