Why are girls looking to swap gender based on a character in the Hunger Games? Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is pretty hot as a girl and well capable physically. Why the need to swap gender? Just be a girl and do what you want to do. Maybe I shouldn't have asked...
Because youngsters have trouble understanding that its just a movie. That K Everdeen has never fired an arrow offscreen without special effects improving the shot. They are bombarded with this message and they look at themselves and, not being able to karate chop four guys into submission, they feel less than. They have feminine urges and they wonder why they are different (not knowing that it is the masculine women the media presents who are different) and they develop self hatred and self revulsion.
They are taught that only by being manly are they fully human.
Exactly what is it that you despise so much about the character of Katniss Everdeen? She developed a skill out of a need for her family. She did what was right instead of what was self-serving. She had both the physical strength to survive and the mental strength to do the right thing. How is that a bad message for young girls?
Also, Hollywood has created plenty of strong female characters that are not destroying our young girls. Princess Leia in Star Wars, Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, Ripley in Alien, The Bride in Kill Bill (1 & 2),Leigh Anne Tuohy in Blind Side, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, and more are all strong independent women characters created by Hollywood.