Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. You've come a long way, baby. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, now in her fifth season, saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. Max, the bionic babe in James Cameron's sci-fi series Dark Angel, occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world, after which she suavely extracts herself from his adoration. Fact is, TV has long been a woman's medium.
Movies are guy space.
So consider the releases in the coming months of Josie and the Pussycats, a live-action version of the comic book and '70s TV cartoon series, and Tomb Raider, with Angelina Jolie as supervixen Lara Croft. In all the great epics, from the Iliad on, the protagonists have been masculine, their destinies a masculine destiny. The stars giggle, wear swank togs, toss their coiffures in luxurious slo-mo. Diaz shakes her booty a lot. And skeptics may laugh their booty off when told that the Angels are icons of empowerment.