Happy Lunar New Year! This year, as always, I spent several hours of the first day watching TV. During the Chinese New Year celebrations, Singapore TV tends to show Chinese films (often Hong Kong films dubbed in Mandarin).
After watching a few of these, it occurred to me that none of films' main characters were women. If there were any women in central roles, they were either a) young and sexy/beautiful or b) mother figures (rarer).
Recently I have been surfing and link-hopping Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes to find female everymen (every-mans? everywomen, if you like). From a completely empirical and unscientific skimming I can tell you that it is incredibly difficult to find more than a handful of popular films that have everywomen, other than romantic films.
However, it could just be that I'm really bad at looking.
Watch this space while I search some more.
