Bea Arthur
22nd January 2016, 01:05
As some of you may remember, I posted a thread a while back that honed in on the blatant and pathological sexism of Jem, a cartoon that a friend of mine had seen when her children began watching it. The thread is located at http://www.revleft.com/vb/trigger-warning-sexism-t184918/index.html?t=184918
Due to the sexist nature of Hollywood, in which women are always depicted in subservient and passive roles sexualized to the tastes of the men who produce and purchase tickets to these fleshfests, that cartoon was transformed into a live action movie last year!!
Good news, though! The movie was so unbelievably sexist that not even the general population, mechanically shoveling popcorn into their sexist gullets while staring blankly at the screen, could stand the depiction that females receive.
Like people of color, women have traditionally been depicted in such fare as objects of the white male gaze. Jem is in keeping with this long lineage. Jerrica Benton, the main character, inherits her father's money and uses it to disguise herself in order to record songs as "Jem," the protagonist of the movie. Jem, of course, has to depend upon a man in her life (her father) to acquire financial means to do what she wants (perform in a sexualized way in front of males, of course), and engages in deceitful behavior to accomplish this (hiding under the Jem persona).
America had enough!! They gave this buffet of anti-woman chauvinism the boot after a record short run in the sexism palaces--sorry, I mean movie theaters--that dot America's misogynystic landscape.
It seems that some forms of sexism are too much even for the latent sexists that continue to abound. It's a good thing, too. I had begun a campaign to boycott this motion picture, and was prepared to dump fake blood on anybody daring to cross the picket line!!
Due to the sexist nature of Hollywood, in which women are always depicted in subservient and passive roles sexualized to the tastes of the men who produce and purchase tickets to these fleshfests, that cartoon was transformed into a live action movie last year!!
Good news, though! The movie was so unbelievably sexist that not even the general population, mechanically shoveling popcorn into their sexist gullets while staring blankly at the screen, could stand the depiction that females receive.
Like people of color, women have traditionally been depicted in such fare as objects of the white male gaze. Jem is in keeping with this long lineage. Jerrica Benton, the main character, inherits her father's money and uses it to disguise herself in order to record songs as "Jem," the protagonist of the movie. Jem, of course, has to depend upon a man in her life (her father) to acquire financial means to do what she wants (perform in a sexualized way in front of males, of course), and engages in deceitful behavior to accomplish this (hiding under the Jem persona).
America had enough!! They gave this buffet of anti-woman chauvinism the boot after a record short run in the sexism palaces--sorry, I mean movie theaters--that dot America's misogynystic landscape.
It seems that some forms of sexism are too much even for the latent sexists that continue to abound. It's a good thing, too. I had begun a campaign to boycott this motion picture, and was prepared to dump fake blood on anybody daring to cross the picket line!!