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Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is a Steaming Pile of Sexist Crap

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    Sucker Punch is the latest movie from Zach Snyder.
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    I'm not even gonna bore you with what the movie's about because there really is no cohesive plot.
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    And in case there was any question there is nothing even remotely empowering to women about this film.
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    Infantalizing women with pigtails and mini skirts and cutsey little names like "Sweet Pea" and
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    "Baby Doll"... That's not empowerment, even if they are armed to the teeth.
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    Snyder is nothing but a parasite trying to leech off the gains of feminism to satisfy his own
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    personal, pornographic, adolescent boy fantasy, which just serves as another example
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    of the male driven backlash against women.
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    Who are you kidding? We're not fooled by this.
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    But this movie couldn't have been made without a major studio backing it, yes I'm looking at you Warner Brothers.
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    I can just picture the Warner executives in their boardroom meeting being like,
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    "Ya this is awesome, we can have it both ways, we can fulfill the desires of the 15 year old boy market
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    by having semi naked chicks and action, and then we can make the girls sword wielding and ass-kicking
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    and women will love it!"
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    I got news for you Warner Brothers, we women, we're not that stupid!
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    Incidentally, Warner Brothers is also the company who is attempting to white-wash Akira by
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    casting white actors in the role of Asian characters.
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    Hollywood, you need to get over the simplistic notion that "sexy chicks doing dude stuff" is somehow empowering.
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    Taking scantily-clad, sexploitation style women and squeezing them into the mold of the
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    male action hero does not make a strong female character.
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    That is simply the men who run Hollywood trying to redefine what a strong female character is
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    and repackage it in a way that is pleasing for male adolescent viewers.
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    ...oh yeah and also make a shit ton of money.
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    Usually in my videos I try to be fairly nuanced about my criticisms of pop culture
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    but this movie, doesn't have any nuance.
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    Sucker Punch is nothing more than a steaming pile of maggot-filled, festering, misogynist crap
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    trying to masquerade as female empowerment.
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    Ya, that, uh, that pretty much sums it up.
Title:
Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is a Steaming Pile of Sexist Crap
Description:

As soon as I saw the trailer for Sucker Punch I correctly guessed that it would be another adolescent boy fantasy masquerading as a pseudo-female-empowerment film. What I was surprised about however was how the mainstream media and the blog-o-sphere called Zach Snyder out on his disaster of a movie.
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Video Language:
English
Team:
Feminist Frequency
Duration:
02:12

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