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This is a tricky subject to approach, since it can be reduced to a really hurtful or even misogynist slogan, but I'd like to see more physical comedy in media involving women. Think running into walls, smacked by a spinning plank, or depending on the cartoon believability of the media, crushed by a falling piano.
I started a longer writeup of why that's "important" to me but before I bend over backwards to defend it I'm curious what others think.
No I agree, slapstick and cartoon hijinks shouldn't be gatekept by gender. To this day I still can't fathom why it's funny when men do it but cringe when women do it.
Absolutely Fabulous is one show where she really does the body comedy, check it out!
Kaitlin Olson! I haven't seen much of her work outside It's Always Sunny, but afaik she's a vocal advocate for physical comedy
Melissa McCarthy is so great with physical comedy, i enjoy every time she's on SNL
I can think of at least a few cartoons that have women/girls be the subject of slapstick comedy. Ed, Edd, & Eddy has a bunch. In Phineas & Ferb Candace has her shit rocked pretty frequently