Thursday, March 08, 2007

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.

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