I decided I would check out an episode of the SO-heavily-hyped "Merlin" TV series. In the opening three minutes, while a ceremony was in progress in the castle of Camelot, an armored and visored knight marched in alone to issue a challenge to Arthur--slaughtering seven or eight warriors along the way as if they were senile opossums. When Arthur demanded to see his challenger's face, I already knew exactly what the supposed "surprise" would be. Ta daaa, yawn, it was the fiftieth or sixtieth invincible super-woman so far this week.
So I turned off the television. Movies and TV shows in the fantasy, sci-fi and action genres have settled into a tedious feminist predictability. Now, the mightiest man ever born can consider it a great accomplishment if he's almost as tough as an average 80-year-old woman chosen off the street at random.