[ SECRET POST #3776 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3776 ⌋

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[French politics / My Little Pony]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, that's fine, but there is a very clear trend toward both racism and misogyny in older films.

This is not to say those trends aren't present in more current films, but I think overall we're moving in the general direction of not being bigoted assholes in our media. So very slowly, I'll grant you, but I think it's happening. This is also not to say that every single "old" film ever is a racist and misogynist pile of shit, but the chances of finding a white person painted to look like someone of a different race gets higher the farther back you go, and the chance of a woman doing something both relevant to the plot and unrelated to having a romantic relationship with a man? Also decreases as the age of the film in question increases.

Again, they're not all bad - there are a few good older movies - but holy fuck, man, I feel like I really have to look hard to find them.

[(Anonymous)]

The sexism thing isn't entirely true - iirc there was a phase of it being trangressive-but-not-illegal to have all these cool ladies in powerful jobs, so as to get them onscreen while avoiding all the censorship pitfalls of a romantic role - also maybe during WW2 when there was a shortage of leading men? I really shoulda bookmarked that article. But, like in comics, some things in the 30s and 40s were on a super interesting progressive-ish trend, until the menfolk came home from the war and 1950s nuclear-family-white-picket-fence suburbia conservatism took hold.