Uber feminist undertones
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keith-891 — 15 years ago(November 08, 2010 02:49 AM)
Did anyone else feel really intense feminist undertones?
They existed in every couple's story.- The best friends - the girl was the agressor and harped on the guy for being a p**sy.
- The exes - The girl forced the guy to come because "he's better after he's got the first one out of the way" even tho he didn't want to
- The married couple - obviously the girl was the more masculine of the two
- The first date - the girl was like "unimpressed" with the guy and just wanted a 1 night stand w/him
- The roommates - in the end the roommate told the guy that he was being a d*ck and that the gf was doing all this for him
After watching it I could have sworn it was written by the Women's Liberation Front against Penii or something.
Maybe it's because its more kosher to show women getting the upper hand, or maybe the director's actually a woman from the 70's or something.
Not that it's bad (obligatory Pontius Pilate line here) or anything, but after watching it a second time I was just a bit taken aback.
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SlaveWaterNymph — 15 years ago(December 26, 2010 10:41 AM)
It had a lot of feminist undertones, as well as manipulations and mind games. The whole movie had a dark and strange subtext about it. It wasn't just you. Almost as if by switching the roles of man and woman, they are preaching in a subtle way to get a point across- how men treat women or women can play that way too.
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pescalan — 15 years ago(March 15, 2011 08:32 AM)
There were definite feminist undertones. It was obvious when Kristin Booth's character was hammering her husband from behind (lol) and she ignored his calls to stop or slow down, and when she came it was very reminiscent of a man coming.
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MelivaME — 14 years ago(August 26, 2011 06:13 PM)
That is not really what gendered means. Using a solely female body part as a stand in for 'wimp', or 'coward' that is gendering a term. Just like 'dick' is gendered. A woman can also be called a dick, but that doesn't make the term any less gendered.
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grrrdevin — 13 years ago(February 23, 2013 09:51 PM)
Calling someone a "pussy" came from the belief women are weak and men are strong.
Actually it comes from "puss" (i.e. cat, as cats are skittish), but manipulating the public with misinformation is a major staple of feminism, so keep it up.
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grrrdevin — 13 years ago(February 23, 2013 09:15 PM)
Using a solely female body part as a stand in for 'wimp', or 'coward' that is gendering a term.
Except using "pussy" to mean coward has no relation to its use to describe the female genitalia.
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Virgil_Hawkins — 13 years ago(July 04, 2012 11:11 AM)
None of the five things you mentioned have anything to do with feminism. You equate it with women having the upper hand, but there are many sexually submissive feminists.
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jeronavdg — 11 years ago(June 29, 2014 07:28 AM)
^ This.
Oh man, feminist ideas in a movie. Shocking wow. Women that want to have sex, weird right?
It never happens to you so it must be a complete illusion.
Feminism is the worst for infiltrating into our entertainment!
If only there was a better representation of men in films.
I mean like for real you guys, where are all of the stories about men?!!
That's some sexist beep right there.