Women are more than just love-interests and/or damsels in distress. More than just there to provide a motivation or a plot contrivance.
You were, seemingly, arguing that since there aren’t many female villains then it can be inferred that the goal is to make men look inherently bad and women otherwise. An imbalance in representation, no? Well, if you’re going to argue that, then you should understand that there was in imbalance there before. Still is, and not just in movies or television. An imbalance so deeply ingrained in our systems that making a previously male fictional character female can be considered a fair action.
You were, seemingly, arguing that since there aren’t many female villains then it can be inferred that the goal is to make men look inherently bad and women otherwise. An imbalance in representation, no? Well, if you’re going to argue that, then you should understand that there was in imbalance there before. Still is, and not just in movies or television. An imbalance so deeply ingrained in our systems that making a previously male fictional character female can be considered a fair action.
As to your first paragraph, I never said that they were any of those things. I agree with your first paragraph. Women should have representation as Super Heroes, great people, etc.. I simply disagree with 99% of villains being male as it greatly maligns men and I disagree with 99% of women being portrayed as good. Neither of these figures come close to parity and/or align with reality.