Game Over Player One (Gaming)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Saturday, April 07, 2018, 17:06 (2208 days ago) @ Cody Miller

You weren't playing attention. The Kira subplot was explicitly pointed out as a false narrative.

Um what? This has nothing to do with the wrong turn they take regarding the club.

Your eagerness to take some regressive message from the movie is on you, but it makes me sad that you've adopted that filter.

You are thinking too literally about this, like most people I think. I just saw A Quiet Place (which was fucking awesome by the way). Afterwards, there were numerous people in the group who complained the movie was sexist. Blunt only cooks, cleans, takes care of the kids, and is pregnant. Krasinski hunts and protects the kids. Therefore it perpetuated traditional gender roles and was sexist.

But was it? No! The traditional gender roles were sexist because the woman existed to serve the man. Honey I'm home! As if she now needs to drop everything because the king of the castle is here and he deserves he complete attention. The woman was en extension of the man, cleaning HIS house, cooking HIS food, and raising HIS children, without an identity of her own. She exists as accessory.

This was decidedly NOT the case in A Quiet Place, as both were equals in the relationship, both had distinct wants, goals and agency. They existed independently, but still made a family together.

Just because a film has a woman who is smart and capable does not mean it's not sexist. I mean, every Bond girl was smart and capable!

Yes women are impressed by men in real life. Again, that is not the issue. The issue is how they serve the story, and whether they are defined by a man or not. if as you say Samantha is the real hero, why is Wade the one rewarded, and rewarded with her as the prize?

I didn't say she was the real hero--she was one of many--the High Five. Importantly, she was the one who gave Wade reasons to win that moved his character beyond the lottery ticket fantasy. She gave him context, an understanding of evils of the IOI--without her he would not have known the stakes involved in losing. She was also integral in helping him learn the value of relationships. He matured, as evidenced by his actions when he won. You're the one making her into a prize with boobies. The film doesn't.