She must have hated Superman II

So, Slate's Dana Stevens reviewed the new movie 300, and she didn't like it, partly because (keep in mind that this is a movie about Spartans) it doesn't have any discernable anti-war message. Uh-huh.

She also thinks the movie is RACIST! and sexist and homophobic. Here's a little slice of her nonsense:

Here are just a few of the categories that are not-so-vaguely conflated with the "bad" (i.e., Persian) side in the movie: black people. Brown people. Disfigured people. Gay men (not gay in the buff, homoerotic Spartan fashion, but in the effeminate Persian style). Lesbians. Disfigured lesbians. Ten-foot-tall giants with filed teeth and lobster claws. Elephants and rhinos (filthy creatures both). The Persian commander, the god-king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) is a towering, bald club fag with facial piercings, kohl-rimmed eyes, and a disturbing predilection for making people kneel before him.

Huh. So does this mean General Zod wanted Superman to give him a hummer? Come to think of it, Zod (sounds a little like "sod," hm?) did look kinda queer.

Hey! It's not a gay thing. It's more like a prison thing.

(Via Ace, who beats Stevens like a redheaded stepchild.)

Update: I noticed that she included "Ten-foot-tall giants with filed teeth and lobster claws," as creatures who are "conflated with the 'bad.'" I don't know any ten-foot-tall giants with lobster claws or filed teeth, so I really couldn't tell you whether or not they're "bad" people, but you've got to admit that they do sound kinda scary.