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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
Have we all died and gone back to 2015? Do people still get mad about crackers feelings getting hurt?
I know both trans and cis lesbians who want to reclaim the labrys, and it is not universally used by terfs either as most of them aren't even lesbian to begin with, but it's definitely a red flag when i see it out in the wild and you sound as if there's more dog whistles, too.
There were enough dog whistles/general bad vibes that my girlfriend and I had to stop watching about 30 minutes in. I kept waiting for it to redeem itself somehow and it didn't. I don't know how to describe it without starting a struggle session I'd rather not deal with tbh.
Suffice to say it's the kind of barely plausibly deniable shit that gets you dogpiled for misunderstanding how inclusive it is, actually. You're just misunderstanding. You're overreacting. And so on. You know the drill. It had bad enough vibes As Two Trans Women(tm) that we both felt like we were in danger.
Oh damn. Now i honestly don't know if i should pirate this and see for myself because it wouldn't take long to confirm when it's that bad that soon or if i should just stay away from it. Part of me wants to be sure, but your description sounds like the kind of stuff that could really get under my skin.
My girlfriend clocked it within the first 90 seconds or so. I thought it might redeem itself and it just kept digging itself deeper. It's on tankietube if you have a minute and a half to spare, so long as you're ready to disengage as soon as the vibes are off.
Watching it felt like entering a "queer space" where there's one other transfem in the room and her eyes are full of an ineffable despair. I couldn't tell if it's meant to be crypto-TERF garbage or just the ambient queer transmisogyny that keeps happening in spaces when you don't center transfems. That same sense of danger.
I stopped giving media the benefit of the doubt after that. It's not worth it, especially not when someone else is getting hurt because I'm being hard-headed.
To turn this in a more - productive? - direction, if this film is an example of how not to tell a lesbian story (why are men the centerpiece of a movie about lesbians somehow? Why the tokenizing of trans women? Why the gender essentialism?), what would a good lesbian space princess movie look like? There's a story that's worth telling, and I'm glad somebody tried to tell it, but we can do better.