[ SECRET POST #5993 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5993 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I think Legally Blonde has a lot of parts that didn't agw well, but I'd bet you a year's worth of Harvard tuition that AYRT has no complaints about anti-racist movies that are all about men and don't address their male privilege over WOC.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

They'd also never insinuate that a rich, attractive, cishet black man doesn't really have to deal with racism in any meaningful way.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, you'd lose that bet.

Sorry if I'm not really up to engaging with the other anon that is accusing me of literally not having watched the movie because more of it felt jarring and outdated than empowering to me, and keeps insinuating that I am a babygay who demands everything be about meee (or black English feminism or indigenous Australian feminism or other extreme strawmen) while oof, condescendingly calling me darling and making sarcastic throat clearing noises, just for acknowledging the problematic and outdated parts of the movie, which they seem to be either oblivious to or okay with excusing because such were the times.

Calling Legally Blonde super white and super rich is just... true. Note that I never said the movie should be about, or feature black people; that is the automatic assumption and demand that anon made, because... I'm not sure why, perhaps in their mind, the only way for a movie to not be painfully white with only stereotypical tokens of everything everywhere else is to be actively black. Which is also not true??

When I say people are stuck in the 90s this is a good example of what I mean. I say this as a person who was born before the 90s, too.

Legally Blonde did some things well. It did other things not so well. Reviewing it from a modern setting, it stepped on other groups to do those things, which is not a great look and should absolutely be warned for when reccing the movie to others because it sure blindsided me when it was recced to me as "a feminist masterpiece" and I see these things in it.

I'm not particularly interested in debating this with someone who won't look at the movie critically, though. You know, as we should with all media.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

DA Just because someone doesn't agree with you about something does not mean they aren't looking at it critically.