[busterarm]

It's the same braindead mode of thinking that led Disney to re-interpret Snow White with the men in the movie being creepy and to deemphasize the main plotline where the stepmother is evil and sees her step-daughter as her competition.

Men, especially white men, are by-default bad and women have no agency unless they're overcoming men.

[jncfhnb]

To be clear, you’re talking about Snow White and the huntsman, in which Snow White isn’t even the main character in favor of action huntsman Chris Hemsworth?

[busterarm]

No, I'm talking about the still unreleased live-action remake and what their lead actress has said about the movie.

[jncfhnb]

Attacking Greta Gerwigs’ first worked-on film after Barbie for “not doing feminism right” before you have seen it is a hot take!

[busterarm]

If you think a two-hour Mattel commercial is where the feminist discourse is right now, then feminism is off in the wilderness.

Then again, women are still overwhelmingly the largest consumer spending group and the CEO of Mattel is still a man.

Referencing the Barbie movie wrt feminism is about as laughable as the people who think Star Trek is some post-racial utopia -- even though the bad guys are still mostly dark-skinned and virtually every alien race is a monoculture.

[dragonwriter]

> the people who think Star Trek is some post-racial utopia -- even though the bad guys are still mostly dark-skinned

That’s... not true of the franchise as a whole, or even any of the individual series.

So, this is hardly creating confidence in your reading of the other works under discussion.

[busterarm]

Are you kidding me?

Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Jem'Hadar, Ferengi, The Kazon, maybe the Hirogen.

All of these _villain races_ (which already is a wow conceptually) are portrayed as being dark-skinned.

The list of other prominent villian species is quite small, especially when you have to exclude the Borg, Changelings, Tholians, the Breen.

And I'm not making this argument out of nothing. People have been big-upping the show for being racially aware and talking about that context of the show for decades now.

[saagarjha]

Did you watch the movie?

[busterarm]

So is everyone who saw the movie supposed to have the same interpretation of it? That sounds vaguely sexist.

It's Gerwig who claimed the movie is a feminist film and the critical reactions to the movie with regard to feminism are very mixed.

[Tao3300]

Once upon a time, a woman accidentally pricked her finger over some fresh snow. Observing the sight, she thought, "how gruesome! But Snow White seems like a nice name, nevermind this completely irrelevant scene of blood on snow..."