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Now wait just a minute. Didn't these people watch G.I. Jane. That woman could do everything that the men could do. Now that's a fact - cuz I saw it in a movie.

Some of the action films that started coming out in the 90's were hard to take seriously. Carrie Fisher taking command of her own rescue party and bullseyeing stormtroopers in Star Wars was funny and somewhat original for the time, but nowadays every female lead in an action film has to be as butch as the men and be capable of taking out someone two to three times their body weight, especially if the story is set in any decade before a member of NOW burned a bra. It's one of many over-used elements in pop culture these days.

On the other hand, Linda Hamilton was one of the best characters in T2 because she really did look like she had put on some muscle and she didn't act like she was as immune to pain and fatigue as Arnie's character was.

Well, the average guy is tougher than the average woman. NOTE: average. If you were to compare Woody Allen against say some femme from the WWE or Lucy Lawless, we all know who'll win. The problem occurs when people take extreme cases to apply to the general mass.