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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   drsteerforth@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
      
   >>Director James Cameron said in a recent interview that his upcoming movie,   
   >>"Avatar: The Way of Water," is the most empowering movie for women because   
   >>one of the characters is a pregnant warrior.   
   >>   
   >>The movie, which debuted in theaters across the U.S. on Friday, continues   
   >>where the first movie left off, and in this film one of the main characters,   
   >>Neytiri, is pregnant.   
   >>   
   >>Cameron made the remarks about Neytiri during an interview with Variety when   
   >>he was asked why it was important to have Neytiri and another character be   
   >>pregnant in the movie.   
   >>   
   >>"Everybody's always talking about female empowerment," Cameron said. "But   
   >>what is such a big part of a woman's life that we, as men, don't experience?   
   >>And I thought, 'Well, if you're really going to go all the way down the   
   >>rabbit hole of female empowerment, let's have a female warrior who's six   
   >>months pregnant in battle.'"   
   >>   
   >>"It doesn't happen in our society -- probably hasn't happened for hundreds   
   >>of years," he continued. "But I guarantee you, back in the day, women had to   
   >>fight for survival and protect their children, and it didn't matter if they   
   >>were pregnant. And pregnant women are more capable of being a lot more   
   >>athletic than we, as a culture, acknowledge."   
   >>   
   >>"I thought, 'Let's take the real boundaries off,'" he concluded. "To me, it   
   >>was the last bastion that you don't see. Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel --   
   >>all these other amazing women come up, but they're not moms and they're not   
   >>pregnant while they're fighting evil."   
   >>   
   >>Cameron said during an interview late last month about the movie that   
   >>testosterone was a "toxin" that men should work out of their systems.   
   >>   
   >>Cameron made the remarks during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.   
   >>   
   >>Cameron, 68, said that he has changed as he has gotten older as his "F-   
   >>bomb-laden shouting matches with executives is behind him," the publication   
   >>said.   
   >>   
   >>"A lot of things I did earlier, I wouldn't do -- career-wise and just risks   
   >>that you take as a wild, testosterone-poisoned young man," he said. "I   
   >>always think of [testosterone] as a toxin that you have to slowly work out   
   >>of your system."   
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