Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge July 31, 2025
The woke “girl boss” trope is back and despite failing over and over again at the box office and in streaming numbers, Hollywood is still desperate to push the narrative that women “kick ass” and are just as strong and effective as their male counterparts.
In their latest foray into fantasy land, STARZ has brought back its acclaimed Spartacus show with a new mini-series called Spartacus: House Of Ashur. The production doesn’t focus on Spartacus, but another tired feminist DEI Mary Sue stand-in.
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To understand this trope its important to understand the progressive relationship to history. They believe that history is a tool for furthering agenda and must be adjusted to serve the greater movement. Facts are an inconvenience and evidence is stretched to support ridiculous conclusions.
You might recall a hilarious film released back in 2022 called “The Woman King” that was widely heralded by the media as the next evolution in Hollywood action cinema. The movie claimed to be “based on true events” involving the women warriors of the Dahomey tribe in West Africa.
The Dahomey ruled the region in the 18th and 19th centuries using an army of around 6000 warriors. The majority of these soldiers were men with a small contingent of women attached to the King’s personal guard (they were considered the “third class” wives of the King – women who were far too ugly to share his bed and bear children).
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The Woman King depicts the Dahomey as freedom fighters battling French slave traders. The truth was actually the opposite: The Dahomey were a vicious slaver tribe that terrorized West Africa, killing other tribes as they pillaged and selling the survivors to various traders (European, Arab and African). It was, in fact, the French and the British who ultimately defeated the Dahomey in the 1890s and shut down their slavery networks in 1905.
In other words, they got their asses kicked by the white man and everyone in West Africa was better off.
Most of The Woman King was factually inept or completely fabricated, filled with DEI lies and designed to push multiple woke propaganda messages at once. The movie was heavily protected by the media and they claimed it was a “success” despite the fact that it lost at least $50 million at the box office when marketing costs and theater percentages were included. It was a flop.
The movie was the epitome of woke “girl boss” delusion. Women cannot be “kings”, and the warrior prowess of the male King’s female harem guards is thinly supported by any legitimate evidence. But this is what leftist Hollywood does – They scrape the bottom of the historical barrel to find even one instance of women acting in men’s roles or minorities battling “white colonists” and then ignore all the historical indicators in order to add their own modern spin.
Progressive activists pretend that the “real history” of the “marginalized” has been suppressed by the patriarchy, but if that were true then they would not have to consistently lie or exaggerate in order to showcase the supposedly great accomplishments of these people.
Another example of this propaganda dynamic was media reports of a “discovery” of female Vikings with weapons in their graves at a burial area called the Birka site. Woke ideologues immediately jumped on the story and conjured up tales of women participating in great battles and acting as fierce soldiers. There was actually no archeological evidence to support the assertion and no legitimate historian agrees that the Birka site proves the existence of women warriors among the Vikings.
In the case of Spartacus: House Of Ashur, the show likely taps into limited evidence of female participation in gladiator events. One such piece of evidence is a marble relief on a wall depicting two armed women in a fight. Another is a small statue of a woman with a sword which was “reinterpreted” in 2011 to be a female gladiator (again, all based on theory). A burial site found in London held a woman next to decorative items that some historians think might be related to gladiators.
There is no evidence of women being formally trained in gladiator combat at any of the “Ludus” schools in Rome and limited literary accounts suggest that when women did act as “gladiators” it was in the form of “side-show acts” in which women fought other women (foxy boxing), dwarfs and killed animals. There is no archeological evidence of women battling men in the arena.
The feminist desperation to prove women are as physically capable as men continues. Though, House Of Ashur is already being widely mocked and is unlikely to convince anyone of anything. It’s another woke show which will probably bomb and be quickly forgotten.
this is another step to de feminise women
boxing football working on building sites
and women fall for this crap
same as making men into nancy boys
this failed in the 1960 when carnaby dressed boys in unisex clothes , showed them wearing makeup and put them on little motor scooters
the craze did not last long did it ?
so now its out in the open
Kier Starmer has mental health issues
The stress of importing in migrants and the rent boy scandal
has taken its toll.
But this was so obvious, until recently Homosexuality was seen
as a mental health issue, the BBC sent many of its ” stars”
to the world famous Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital
and yes many were cured.
But Homosexuality does not exist in a vacuum
and often goes alongside other personality disorders
Lord Rothschilds Apostles in the 1930s were all homosexuals
Damaged individuals like Jimmy Savile whose crimes were hidden up
by fellow jews Esther Rantzen Leon Britten and Kier Starmer
and extreme communists, despite many millions of Christians being murdered in the Soviet Union, Rothschild’s Englishmen wanted to bring it here, some still do.
You can’t blame impressionable tarts for believing they are the “same” as men. After all look at what REAL men have done to improve their lives. What with power-assisted steering and other “goodies” on cars they can even manage to drive oversized, overpriced and overweight bangers to the shops and with bumper bleepers they can even manage to park without injury to anyone or anything — most of the time 🙂 LOL
Any female who imagines she is the same as a man is an idiot. Similarly any male who imagines that he is the same as a woman is also an idiot. Men and women complement each other because of their differences.
Men build houses but women make homes — as they say 🙂
Civil servants have been accused of trying to censor criticism and debate about immigration during last year’s riots after the Southport stabbings. However, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) doubled down on the claims officials intervened and said it would make “no apologies” for prosecuting those using potentially harmful content to stop mass migration
the councilor said people were over reacting to a little bit on bum stroking
which in this heat was understandable
Watched the original Magnificent 7 t’other day,
it was, er…… Magnificent ! 🙂
No cursing, terrific music, feel good factor story line,
quite inoffensive .
These days, It’ll soon be Idris portrayed as a benevolent & sympathetic Oliver Cromwell, Ray Winstone will be a right thug twat as King Charlie I.. & the bulk of the roundheads will be Muslim/Caribbean hordes slaughtering the right gormless skinny weak bastard cowardly Caucasians with very bad accents. The leading lady.. a stunning well proportioned Blonde, hooked up with Idris.. All the while… rap background themes ramping up the revolution.
And another box-office flop…
Then we’ll all have the task of convincing the ‘younger ones’ that it’s actually not true. Even though the claim will be, ‘a take on true events’.
Only to be met with indifference & rolling eyes..
The BBC recently showed – but I believe took it down within a day or two after they realised the consequences of it – a picture of a police woman blooded and teared after the trial of the Asian men involved in a fracas at the airport. She had been punched in the face. Possibly enough to temporarily disable anyone, man or woman. But the picture itself showed devastation rather than simple immediate incapability. There was no anger or grim resolution as there might naturally be with a man. There is an emotional context to do with real violence that superhero movies don’t display even though they seek to show the “equality” of male and female physical prowess.
This is where wishful thinking born of government policy, woke academia, and Hollywood cannot square with a hard punch to the face. And in the example I cite, I note the contempt for women as I perceive it anyway among Muslims; it would be “shameful” to be arrested by a “woman”. This is another impossible circle to square in nation for whom the most popular boy’s name is now “Mohammed”. Inclusivity must somehow embrace the barbaric idiocy of Islam and modern feminism.
There’s also the times these characters lived in, when most women worked all their lives in a household, later to become working mothers, who will have spent most of their time in the kitchen area of a mud hut or roundhouse if they were lucky. Women who were historical exceptions to this like Boudica were nobles or the wife of a noble. Leading a revolt wasn’t a career choice for many men never mind women and any who did would be historical figures, even if their rebellion was soon put down. Many men will have tried and failed but the women would be known to us.
A lot of women are envious of men and wish they were one; they secretly kill a man and then imitate him. Let us remember also that although Hollywood is the Jews, the Black actors are very willing to falsify History for personal money and for the politics
LOL..
I loved the scene in Stanny Pubics original, when Spartacus having been captured with what was left of his slave army, faces Larry Olivier as Crassus in a fake, cof cof, Roman nose made of plastic..who asks the slave army to give up their leader..
‘Oi’m shpatakus!’..shouts one brooklyn accent, ‘no me Oi’m shpatakus!’ shouts some imbecile from yonkers..
‘Oi’m shpatukus! yooz wop greaser’…shouts some bronx accent…
and so on…
I still have a good old chuckle whenever I see it..
Woke…strange name for a strange disease
Another woke film I won’t ever be watching…
The female has a smaller sized skull/brain than the male of the race/species.
its not ‘woke’ but commie…anyone using the word ‘woke’ should prefix it with ‘commie’…ergo ‘commie woke’. Woke is a word the commies-wogs invented for their own agenda, thus they want their enemies to us it too–but as I stated if you prefix it with commie then it loses its propagandisitc meaning/ perception as intended by the jews commies and nig wogs
Another she ape beating up evil white men. I thought Australopithecus afarensis was extinct? Notice whenever they make some modern film set in ancient Rome all the ‘Romans’ look like the mongrel greaseballs walking around there today. Yet in reality the Romans were Aryan–Nero himself had blonde hair.
Pathetic sadistic nonsense brought to us by
the usual pathetic sadistic suspects.
Regarding the Kingdom of Dahomey, which has been proven over and over again to have been THE slave-trade Kingdom in west Africa, including in the movie “Amistad” (which ends with Brit marine ships destroying the fort that held slaves in Dahomey and freeing the slaves held there), that Dahomey has become known throughout the world to have been THE slave trade center of West Africa is why the nation of Dahomey changed its name to BENIN.
To be talmudically/commie ‘woke’, is to be dead from the neck up.
A group of men, every one with some beard growth, all led by someone with none? Nah! I don’t think so.
O I DONT MIND !
women can do all the wars for me + driving tanks,
building houses, bridges, climbing mountains,
selecting negros + moslems as presidents + mating
with them . I dont mind because they dont fit my
standards . good luck I am free of them in my old age .
Nick Fuentes is now picking on Candace Owen, calling her a ‘she boss’.
Just heard that coming from EMJ.
Apparently they got together for a chat, I don’t know what happened but it looks like Nick is now doing a lot of whinging about her.
“There was actually no archeological evidence to support the assertion and no legitimate historian agrees that the Birka site proves the existence of women warriors among the Vikings”.
Ever been to Denmark Tyler and have met Danish women? Some of them surely could chop treas down with ease, build boats or swing a sword – even today in the middle of “Danish” multiculturalism and the exhausting of facts that once were reality but now are woven around woke fairy tales.
One undeniable fact today is: There is a (gender) war going on between what once were men and women and it works absolutely like a charm. Especially with a female race that once upon a time “left paradise” at the first deceiving opportunity for “a better and more fulfilled life” – with or without a man or what once was truth and reality.
Once they were barefoot and pregnant. These days they are “Ester’s Warriors” destroying all civilizations at once while practicing “kosher femininity”.
Rarotflmfao and I can see why I haven’t watched TV and been to the movies for years and do I feel good, fuck yeah.
Trandace Owen is a male to female, transsexual androgyne. “Her” alleged con-artist-servative leanings, which warms the hearts of the blight-wing morons, combined with “her” being an alleged black female, is just more Freemasonic mockery courtesy of the Tribe. Freemasonry is Judaism for the goyim.
And folks still dont get it. Who owns Hollywood? Agendas continue.
Girl Boss…?
Right!
I knew one of them.
When in the 11th grade, in high school, my buddy and I made friends with one of the girl’s Gym Teachers, Miss C.
During our boy’s gym class, she allowed us both into the girl’s side of the gym, where the two of us played Vollyball against her entire girl’s gym class.
I was a totally mediocre volleyball player with a decent-but-irradic serve. My buddy was a better player, but by no means star material.
The two of us ‘wiped the floot’ with that entire class of girls — we did it in every game we played, on several consecutive gym-days.
Each time, we beat them so soundly that it wasn’t even any fun. We only did that for three days, stopping after it grew boring and the laughs wore off.
I am sure that the average 17-year-old boy can ‘slaughter’ even an accomplished girl MMA fighter of the same age — or any age. Barring the trannies, of course. It’s just Mother Nature; she’s the real ‘Girl Boss!’
yeah but females have such lovely tits tho
chesterton–and in the Conspiracy, which we are still under, “Spartacus” was the code-name of Adam Weishaupt
Another lesbian fantasy character.