Our thanks to Martin for this piece in The Guardian. The start of the piece:
The practice is called wigging: stuntmen don wigs and women’s clothing to resemble female actors while filming risky action scenes.
Camera angles, special effects and editing preserve the illusion that it is a pulchritudinous star leaping off a building or driving through a window rather than a man in drag.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Quote:-
“….Audiences may not know (We Do!) or care but stuntwomen do because it means less work for them….”
And fewer deaths, injuries and accidents too, never mind that women, in general, will be less capable of performing those stunts.
On a related issue, I well remember with amusement a slightly built Diana Rigg or Joanna Lumley hitting some hulking great thug – who would then go flying, propelled, of course, merely by his own leg muscles!
I wonder also, how many women really want to be a Stunt Cun.. er, I mean ‘artist’…
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I read the story and noticed the link to a story of the death of a stunt man. So I’m in full support! Oh and perhaps as there are fewer stunt women then we’ll see more Hollywood starlets do their own stunts! Older readers may, like me, recall a similar spat about stunt women in the early eighties. Seems there hasn’t been a flood to the job in the 30 odd years since!
There appear many dangerous things that a small number of women are drawn to and a much larger number of men. As always men are to “blame” , but surely its the women who should be persuading more of their “sisters” to join them if they find it lonely?
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“Oh and perhaps as there are fewer stunt women then we’ll see more Hollywood starlets do their own stunts!”
And if one of them goes splat then on the positive side there’ll be one less #MeToo allegation 😉
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If one of them goes “splat” it will be the fault of the director ( male) who “pressurised “her into doing the stunt.
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Indeed. As per Uma Thurman / Quentin Tarantino recently. As always women want the upside, without the downside. Men accept both sides.
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If men are not able to or not willing to do stunts for female actors, there will be very few female action stars on screen. How ironic, or downright stupid that feminists have the cheek to even complain about this.
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You’re right Marty by Jove, this is an own goal indeed!
So fevered is the hunt for ever more to complain about.
Another petard to be hoist by, unless we’re both wrong – which we’re not…
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I deplore the Guardian’s conspiratorial tone here (AKA The Plot Against The Stunt Women) but have no problem with plans to put more women in dangerous and difficult jobs. It’s about time they picked up the slack frankly.
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They must be desperate to show off their cunning stunts. I’m sure their stunts would be stunning, you … chaps.
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