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> An intelligence agency that only employs straight male secret agents is an intelligence agency doomed to fail from the start. I have to hope someday that the
by FireBeyond 2y ago
> An intelligence agency that only employs straight male secret agents is an intelligence agency doomed to fail from the start. I have to hope someday that the Broccoli family grows a spine someday and shows us a Bond who is a woman, being just as much of an arrogant slut as Sean Connery’s Bond. They did a great job with that Bond, and certainly that’s a desirable archetype! It’s just gotten boring and overplayed to see that leading Bond role manner only played by the same boring and overplayed white men for decades now.
There was a scene in The Americans where the husband and wife Soviet agents talked about / reminisced about their training. And that to the Soviets, sexuality was just another tool in the box. If you're seducing for the job, what does it matter? The husband was taught about seducing men, and the wife women, as much as the opposite sex (this is not an attempt to simplify / reduce sexuality, just how it is portrayed in the show).
- scarface_74 2y agoThis wasn’t about “seduction”. The video shows Bond slapping women when they won’t tell him what he wants to know.
- phinnaeus 2y agoAgreed, this was blatant sexism. He does far worse things to men who won’t tell him what he needs.
- justahuman74 2y agoBond is violent with both genders
- altairprime 2y agoThe load-bearing word “is” here overlooks a rather striking imbalance (pun intended). I’m picturing two supercuts and the one where Bond hits men and is hours long, versus the one where Bond hits women and is ten or fifteen minutes long at best. So, yeah, “is” — but was there some argument you intended to make that your statement supports?
- b112 2y agoWhat was the context? Often these women try to kill Bond in a sneaky way, or have shown themselves be spies. Anyone tries to kill me, it's all good.
- altairprime 2y agoYeah, clearly intelligence agencies got the memo on sexuality a long time ago! Portrayals will catch up eventually, I hope.