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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?
my opinion is that i'm sick of symbol discourse and I'm sick of the whole concept of like, okay, some white supremacists went ๐ or something so now ๐ is for nazis forever now, like, I think we have more important things to worry about than having a constant rolling and expanding encyclopedia of dog whistles to keep track of and also permanently edify in our culture and language as belonging to bigoted shitheads forever (so that, like The Dunk Tank, some nerd 100 or 2000 years from now will go "UM AKSHUALLY ๐ IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST SYMBOL" no matter how far removed from any of the current modern shit that led to that association it ends up being). I think it yields an incredible amount of cultural influence to bigoted shitheads because it seems incredibly easy for literally anything to be taken and used this way.
but as long as we're here worrying about symbols and other nonsense shit IMO the logic of taking the battle axe thing (whatever a labrys is, sounds french) and putting it in the hands of a trans character as a way of taking it back from TERFism totally makes sense. i'm not going to argue it isn't lib shit but like i get the logic
the problem is it sounds like they entirely fucked up her character and, in doing so, fucked it all up so bad that it honestly looks like they were doing TERF stuff on purpose (going entirely on your description of the character because my exposure to this movie is literally contained to the posts in this thread, so idk anything about her)
Yeah, you get it. If the story had been told differently it could have been a powerful moment. I really couldn't tell if it was that oblivious or just crypto-TERF shit laundered through some box-checking identity politics. The labrys was just the first thing that came to mind that was off about the movie.