Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is baggage claim. She's a YouTuber and a movie critic.

There have been a lot of female leads in TV and cinema over the last few years.

She hulk, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange 2 and the Rings of Power all showed women leading the charge.

But just how aspirational and admirable are these role models for the women who watch them?

Is it treating them like mature humans or patronising them like fragile idiots?

Expect to learn how cultural narcissism has taken hold of Hollywood, why perfect female characters teach women nothing about how to be a good person,

why Hollywood relies on performative empathy to feel good, the problem with she hulk stating life, why no one is going to be gilted into watching anything,

the lessons to learn from bros rom com failure, and much more.

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