Hegemonic Masculinity vs. femininity

In an article I read from Entertainment Weekly for my Writing 140 class, the author points out that the entertainment industry does not produce a lot of strong female characters, to which she later expresses her excitement and liking towards these heroine figures in upcoming films such as Katniss from The Hunger Games and Lisbeth from the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is because they are "strong women", which she describes as being "tough, stoic, unfussy, fighther, resilient" among many other adjectives. At the same time she points out her annoyance towards "weak woman" that are frequently portrayed in movies; they are those that are silly and lovestruck she says. Basically, when describing a strong woman, she essentially outlines the characteristics of a typical man, and when defining a weak woman, she describes a typical woman. Here, we can see that there's really no distinctive types of woman (like a strong woman vs. a weak woman) to which we can marginalize and thus define a dominant form of femininity - it's just masculinity - the dominant, hegemonic force, versus everything else, which is feminine in various degrees (e.g. gay, wimp, geek).