A feminist review of 'The Incredibles'
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Feminists seem to have this uncanny knack for finding fault with anything and everything.
"I find it greatly offensive that the sitcom 'My Family' chooses to depict a heteronormative, SO CALLED 'traditional' (gagh!) family unit. God forbid the BBC to admit that single mothers exist, or that gay adoption is perfectly acceptable.
This is typical of the fascist male-orientated media. Blahdy blah blah."
My wife Rachel once worked with a militant feminist who told her she had "no ambition" because she was married (and pregnant at the time), and derided her for letting her evil husband "steal her career" by getting her up the duff.
So Rachel sacked her. She was the boss.
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I doubt she would have had a leg to stand on, because that was the last straw after a long history of bad attitude. I think they were itching for an excuse to get rid of her by that point.
Also, not saying she was representative of the entire feminist movement, just to clarify.
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In general people like her aren't, any more than the football fans who smash up foreign towns after matches are representative of all football fans. The more reasonable, sensible ones just get tarred with the same brush.
I await the WALL-E review where they complain that the two central robots have distinctive male and female personalities and thus the film is heteronormative.
I await the WALL-E review where they complain that the two central robots have distinctive male and female personalities and thus the film is heteronormative.
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"Of course, being made of metal and communicating monosyllabically denotes masculinity, therefore I am not represented by this fascist right-wing filth."
It's me emulating the mindset in question.
I wish I'd read this thread earlier. It has some fantastic visuals.
Marian
"EVE, on the other hand, is slightly more gendered, subtly reinforcing the patriarchal notion that male is normal, female abnormal. At least there are no eyelashes on this curvaceous, high-voiced robot. It seems that accepting robot love is wacky enough, but apparently Pixar thought that as long as it was obviously opposite-sex love, audiences would catch right on."
http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/07/wall%c2%b7e.html#more-36
She didn't use the word heteronormative, but you pretty much got it spot on there Hermiod.
Oh, and I'm only trawling feminist websites for the lulz and because I'm bored.
^ I knew it. I just knew it.
She even wants the movie's title changed to "WALL-E and EVE"!
I'm almost tempted to start a Masculist review blog. I'd complain that Mr. Incredible is portrayed as a big dumb uncordinated oaf and that portraying a "male" robot as a primitive one only good for manual labour is matriarchical propaganda. I'm not kidding.
I knew it. I just knew it.She even wants the movie's title changed to "WALL-E and EVE"!
I'm almost tempted to start a Masculist review blog. I'd complain that Mr. Incredible is portrayed as a big dumb uncordinated oaf and that portraying a "male" robot as a primitive one only good for manual labour is matriarchical propaganda. I'm not kidding.
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I'd like to contribute to that. Every review I write would complain about male portrayals not living up to the standard set by Bruce Willis in Die Hard, or Tom Baker's Doctor Who.
I'd like to contribute to that. Every review I write would complain about male portrayals not living up to the standard set by Bruce Willis in Die Hard, or Tom Baker's Doctor Who.
^Sorry, can't do that.
John McClane is a matriarchical progaganda designed to make us believe that men are all violent, borderline alcoholic absent fathers.
And the Doctor is designed to convince us that you shouldn't trust typical men who hang around with women much too young for them.
John McClane is a matriarchical progaganda designed to make us believe that men are all violent, borderline alcoholic absent fathers.
And the Doctor is designed to convince us that you shouldn't trust typical men who hang around with women much too young for them.
D:
^I can do that with most things, sadly, because it's easy to find fault if you dig deep enough.
Tom Baker's Doctor is a typical, 70's middle aged male letch who wouldn't be out of place in a Carry On movie. See, that was easy, wasn't it ?
Never mind the fact that he's also a hero or that he saves lives or whatever.
Tom Baker's Doctor is a typical, 70's middle aged male letch who wouldn't be out of place in a Carry On movie. See, that was easy, wasn't it ?
Never mind the fact that he's also a hero or that he saves lives or whatever.
Your knack for channeling this mindset is disturbing.
Your knack for channeling this mindset is disturbing.
I can do the same with anything. I've lost the bookmark now but I once saw a site where movies were reviewed based on their portrayal of Christian values. Star Wars, yes Star Wars, is unsuitable for viewing by Christian families because it presents the existence of life on other planets and the concept of the Force is blasphemous.
I once read something similar on the Bethesda forums. A christian was complaining about the depiction of religion in the Elder Scrolls universe being blasphemous because it portrays a fictional polytheistic religion.
He said he could no longer play Oblivion after entering a chapel and finding shrines to 8 "made up gods", which he found offensive.
Didn't seem to occur to him that the game is set in a completely different universe to our own, on a planet called "Nirn", on which dragons are real and mankind shares his civilisation with Elves, Orcs, upright Lizards and Cat people.
He said he could no longer play Oblivion after entering a chapel and finding shrines to 8 "made up gods", which he found offensive.
Didn't seem to occur to him that the game is set in a completely different universe to our own, on a planet called "Nirn", on which dragons are real and mankind shares his civilisation with Elves, Orcs, upright Lizards and Cat people.
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