Not if they are the heroine. The good guys/gals don’t fight dirty. But there are examples of no holds barred fighting.
OMG - I love Revy. Of course when you have guns, you don’t need to punch or kick things.
ETA - the opening song in Black Lagoon kicks ass.
I suppose it is 
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I haven’t watched GoT, but I do appreciate that it seems to include a somewhat wider variety of characters, if only beacuse of the source material.
Love the story of a model/actress Sophia Crawford getting in over head in a Hong Kong acting gig and deciding to become a strong martial artist, and later a professional stunt actor, including as TV Buffy’s stunt double.
Tough, tough, tough being the white chick in the Hong Kong film martial arts film industry - insanely hard stunts, no time to rehearse, and usually playing the evil westerner. And working while injured. 
Safety? What’s that?
Swords are a great equalizer. You don’t have to be all that strong to stab someone with sharp metal. Strength and size advantage matters a lot more in wrestling of all types than in fencing. (Though reach is extremely relevant there.)
Very cool. I was not familiar with her, in spite of my time spent dabbling in kung fu movies, which I very much enjoy.
Thanks.
The series isn’t over yet, it could still happen with this character.
Well sure… if you’re trained in the using it… it’s more complicated than “stab them with the pointy end” I think. If you remember from the series (if you watch it), the character is a trained fighter and goes up against some other characters who are not slouches (the Hound, for one). So in the case of sword play, training helps. But the same goes for marital arts. One doesn’t just one day do one of these bad ass moves… it takes some training.
I guess my overall point is that there are examples where women fighting isn’t necessarily played for titillation in TV or films, and that (except for Tormund) Brienne is one example.
It is not a universal thing. Both James Bond and the Preacher used the same strategy on Jaws, if I recall.
I KNOW! My husband thought it sounded like a KMFDM song…
We just started watching it. So far, so interesting. We just finished with the neo-nazis on the boat from season 1.
We’ll not put anything past old George… He could just kill the entire planet with a giant meteor!
Now I need a Giant Meteor for Iron Throne shirt… STAT!
Head scissors. 
Loads of variants, all fun. I’ll just drop a few here rather than fill the thread with wrestling gifs.
Figure 4 -
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/4811102/biff-busick-figure-4-head-scissors-o.gif
From a swing.
Tilt-a-whirl hurricanrana
And the takedown beautifully done here.
Always preceded by the line from her opponent, “ah! This kitten has claws!”
Well, when you are casting for Hanna or Hitgirl, the actress is not going to be very huge. Plus, some of the best actresses out there are tiny. Ellen Page, Emily Browning and Claire Foy, as examples. but even with all that, there are some great female role models out there for action-oriented kids. The Bride and Ripley are not just 'female" action heroes, they are probably the best out there, IMHO
The reason for that seems, in turn, also quite obvious.
Agreed completely.
If this were a widely effective form of titillation in movies, wouldn’t you think we’d see more of it? I mean, I have to believe that the movie industry will try whatever it takes to bring in a larger audience. My hunch is that man-on-man scissor holds just are not that effective at building an audience.
Again, not agreeing with the tactics, but the reasons for them seem pretty obvious.
What is the reason for that in your opinion?
Hmm, well I think it can be argued that movies are often responsible for sexualizing and fetishizing otherwise non-sexual things and so creating a trope that gets repeated over and over.
I will say that while there hasn’t been a big expansion of the forms of titillation we’re seeing, there has certainly been a shift in the movies being made. They still most often include pandering to pretty much only one group’s sexuality, but it isn’t quite as overt and in your face as 30 years ago.
Maybe someday sexy man on man leg holds will finally see their day 
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Without linking to specific porn sites…yes, a man being dominated by a stronger, larger woman is definitely a thing.
Weird moment on NYE:
One of the women at the table asked if anyone else was into MMA. All the blokes instantly go silent, a couple of beats pass, then she mentioned that she’d just watched the Roussey fight and thought it was amazing…
Conversation instantly restarts, with all of the guys enthusiastically discussing the fight. 
Unfortunately, strong women are still sometimes used like a freak show performer - granted, so is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, but not in the same way.
That’s cartoonist Robert Crumb’s main thing, to name one.
I am aware of Chyna’s story, having run across it on some blog or another. I think she might have even suffered other institutional injustices and humiliations not mentioned in the article.
But of course, it doesn’t have to be that way. I am hopeful that strong ladies of the present and future will be treated with dignity and respect, even though women who step outside of gender norms and standards of beauty aren’t always treated so well.
RIP
