Haywire and a Real Female Action Star

I'm happy to hear that Haywire, Steven Soderbergh's coming attraction, will star Gina Carano, a retired mixed martial arts fighter. Supposedly. I can't verify that she was a fighter, since I'm not a big MMA fan - every time I see it in bars I hope that it's really energetic gay porn and then I'm disappointed when it's not. But I like the idea of having a female action star whose ass-kicking credentials are legit. I'm a lady who loves action movies, but that is a love nurtured despite the fact that most of their women are either damsels in distress or practitioners of what TV Tropes calls "waif fu." That is, the trope of having painfully thin starlet using her perfectly toned leg to kick a guy in the face, all while wearing heels some strippers would find impractically high. Gina Carano is clearly still a conventionally attractive, thin, white woman, but at least she's one with muscles and a winning bout record. Plus, although she takes down Michael Fassbender in a formal dress, at least it seems that she's kicked off the heels to do so. I'll buy a ticket to the movie, two if Soderbergh can guarantee that it's better than The Girlfriend Experience.