Difference between men and women with superheroes

Ironically, not related to Jack’s recent post, but it stimulated a reminder about an interesting thought on social media the other day. To paraphrase:

• When boys or men learn about a superhero or character, they will research all about that character and then when they play they will try to play within the context of that character. For instance, their play would center around how that character would act in certain situations.
• When girls or women learn about a superhero or character, they typically try to play with that character in their likeness. This could explain why the Wonder Woman movie was so popular – women were imagining themselves fighting against the “Patriarchy” and tearing down the walls because they had the power that Wonder Woman did.

In other words, this explains why the vast majority of women created media seeks to strip down cartoons, comics, movies, and other characters and re-make them in the likeness of woman. You see this currently with many of the female-oriented superhero films, Disney remakes, female driven movies and comics, and others.

This seems to be potentially based on a few factors.

• Men tend to be better with compartmentalization and abstract thinking. In other words, they are able to conceptualize totally different characters and distinguish them better from their sense of self.
• Women tend to be more solipsistic in nature, believing that everything is typically related to them. Additionally, their feelings can generally not be isolated well from their sense of situation and self to where feelings often become a dominating factor in their own version of truth.

Indeed, this may also be why women tend to handle leadership positions less well than men in general. The focus of women is typically onto the self and the power and less about the responsibility. Not that there is any shortage of men doing that, but it tends to be more problematic with women especially with petty infighting and power struggles. It’s more personal.

If we carry this back to the Bible, narcissism in men often culminates in the desire to want to be god, but in many cases of narcissism/feminism in women they want to be men or god. Rarely do men except in extremely small number of transgender cases do men want to be a woman or have feminine-like qualities. It’s typically the female envy or covetousness for man, headship/leadership, or masculinity. Women want to re-make man or god into their own likeness.