The Smurfette Principle: why can’t Hollywood accept gender equality?

FULL STORY by :The GUARDIAN....

QUOTE~~

Let’s turn to the biggest horror hit of the year: It. What do we see? A bunch of pubescent boys plus Beverly, who’s regularly the object/victim of male sexual desire. Flip over to It’s small-screen counterpart, Stranger Things, and it’s exactly the same. Last season’s Smurfette, Eleven, was out of the picture this time, so the boys swiftly found a replacement, Max, whom they alternately ostracised and lusted after to the point where you wondered why she wanted to be in their gang at all. The problem is so glaring, even the Smurfs themselves realised they needed to do something.