Misnomer:
You are worried that Salko is too pretty and not butch enough...
So you have answered your own question:
Men are obviously threatened by a woman's femininity
Seriously - if you want to see a range of bad-ass women in various roles - check out the first three seasons of the new Battlestar Galactica.
The female charcaters are smart and savvy and just as important and threatening as the males, without resorting to the sexist steriotypes that you suggest.
Starbuck is played by a tough as nails female - certainly very butch but still sexy...
But the President, played by Mary McDonnell, is probably the toughest bad-ass on the show and she couldn't be more of a "lady".
You don't have to be dissheveled and butch to be a tough woman.
You are worried that Salko is too pretty and not butch enough...
So you have answered your own question:
Men are obviously threatened by a woman's femininity
Seriously - if you want to see a range of bad-ass women in various roles - check out the first three seasons of the new Battlestar Galactica.
The female charcaters are smart and savvy and just as important and threatening as the males, without resorting to the sexist steriotypes that you suggest.
Starbuck is played by a tough as nails female - certainly very butch but still sexy...
But the President, played by Mary McDonnell, is probably the toughest bad-ass on the show and she couldn't be more of a "lady".
You don't have to be dissheveled and butch to be a tough woman.