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punk rebel ecks posted:Jacobin has an article about the film. Boooo but also I get that calling this movie "feminist" is over the top and feels like a trapping of modern liberal media to categorize everything as feminist or anti-feminist. If anything, the jokes at the end about mansplaining and women being allowed to be journalists is a dig at the hollowness of mainstream liberal feminism that sees these platitudes towards equality being toothless, pasting over the actual rot and cruelty at the heart of society. Like, the fictional version of Kazakhstan in the film is still a vicious, backwards culture that delights in celebrating violence, the destruction of its enemies and public shaming -- but now women get to participate in it as well! Notably, look at how many women in this movie are complicit to systemic bigotry. A baker who doesn't blanche at being asked to write "Jews Will Not Replace Us" on a cake, a group of Republican women who gladly talk about how men lie but are still supporting a party that props up Donald Trump. I mean, look at the OAN reporter who unwittingly brought Tutar into the White House. Progress! Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is perhaps sufficiently feminist in that it mocks over-the-top misogyny and has a female character who recognizes the absurdly comical patriarchal lies she's been raised on, but ultimately she only graduates into the oppressor class. Its points about patriarchy and strong women are rather obvious and if this is what qualifies for laudably feminist storytelling that's a pretty simplistic idea of feminism.
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