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I didn't say anything about feminism when you responded to my comment. This is an argument that you put in my mouth. I just said that the comments from the pr
by busterarm 3y ago
I didn't say anything about feminism when you responded to my comment.
This is an argument that you put in my mouth.
I just said that the comments from the production-side of the movie were braindead and sexist.
This is all a conversation that _you_ wanted to have.
- jncfhnb 3y agoAccusing a movie‘s portrayal of women of being sexist, especially a movie written by the person behind a billion dollar film about a woman trying to empower women who gets accused of being an icon of sexism, is well within the current dialogue of feminism. It is in fact, a humorously ironically relevant argument.
- busterarm 3y ago> about a woman trying to empower women Only if you're in that middle-class, ultra-consumerist "girl-boss" demographic that the movie is marketed/trying to appeal to. That message is largely lost at the margins, as is typical in "pretty, white feminism". You're ignoring the elephant in the room -- any empowerment message takes a back seat to the goals of selling tickets and "buy our shit".
- jncfhnb 3y agoIt’s kind of crazy how many cliches you’re spouting that are directly addressed by the movie almost verbatim as if to imply that the movie was trying to pretend didn’t exist
- busterarm 3y agoEverything they "addressed" in the film was done so hamfistedly and badly. Which is fine, because it's a goddamned studio film. Studio films aren't supposed to be what the movie they thought they were trying to make is. It ends up being so paint-by-numbers that it subverts whatever they might have wanted to do.
- jncfhnb 3y agoI do think this film suffers from being a studio film. A lot, actually. But that is not a blanket excuse to diminish everything it says.