All art is at once surface and symbol

...that's a good quote, and I agree. The whole Magical Negro or Inspirational Disabled Person business gets pretty old (unless the latter is inspirational in the "I don't let it rule my life, I'm just as human as anyone else" sense because that's actually a good lesson to learn). And while Action Girls and women getting to be badass is a good thing, some take it too far by claiming girly princesses or housewives are "a step backwards"/"setting the women's movement back 50 years" and screeching that an Action Girl was "derailed" simply because she lost a fight/a woman is being portrayed as a harpy because she has a moment of irrationality.