For all of the people saying they don't understand why The Scythian was chosen as a positive portrayal because she's barely a character at all and many didn't even realize she was a women is kinda the point.
Far too often, it seems like "we" need an excuse to make a character female. This character needs to be female to serve this purpose for a male character. This character needs to be female because we want to invoke stereotypically female emotions to go along with our theme. This character needs to be female because we're going for sex appeal. Everything else? Well, default to male of course because male experiences are universal and can be appreciated by everyone. Anita directly makes this point in her video, we need to stop defaulting to male to tell a universal tale. We need to stop using female characters when we only want to portray a specific type of character or elicit a specific reaction. I personally refer to this phenomenon as Star Trek Alien syndrome.
Female characters are too often treated like classic Star Trek Aliens. Humans have a full spectrum of personality traits, emotions, and motivations, including logic or aggressive honor. Vulcuns only get to be logical. Klingons only get to be honorable warriors. Vulcuns and Klingons are like humans who are only allowed to express a narrow sliver of the human spectrum of potential. Women as characters are too often treated the same way. They aren't humans. They are Femaliens from the Star Trek universe.
One way to combat these sorts of portrayals is to erase the tendency for male as default when gender is utterly irrelevant. We need more casually female characters. Not female because they needed to be, not female because "we" want to put them on a pedestal and say "see?! I'm being progressive!. Just, female because roughly half of all humans are in fact female and yes, women do stuff.