Comments on: Hollywood, please stop shitting on my childhood

By: tekanji

tekanji — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:17:14 +0000

ty: No one is “looking” for anything, we merely see what is there. I suggest that you read this post on the matter to educate yourself. Also, I recommend that you re-read the discussion rules, especially the part where it says that this blog is an anti-oppression blog. What we do here is discuss things like stereotyping in the media. If you don’t like it, you have the option not to read it, but I will not tolerate any more dismissive phrases like “why do you look for sexism, racism, and other things”.

As per Mikaela, sexism is more than blatant misogyny. I suggest that you check out the FAQ on sexual objectification over at the Feminism 101 blog. It’s not that Mikaela was treated as badly as she could have been, but rather she wasn’t treated as well as she should have been.

By: ty

ty — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:01:14 +0000

um…ok this is kind of weird i mean i seen the movie and mikila wasn’t treated badly and it was a really good movie she helped out and all but come on it was coming from sams point of veiew and he happened to be strongly attracted to to the point of tring to impress her.why do you look for sexism,racism and other things when there are known

By: Feministe » Criticizing the things you love

Feministe » Criticizing the things you love — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:27:13 +0000

[...] I still left yelling “Why did the black robot have to die?” Thinking about the racist, sexist stuff in the movie didn’t diminish my enjoyment of it… but it did make me sad [...]

By: Brinstar

Brinstar — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:11:17 +0000

I decided not to see the movie. I think Cameron has the right idea: fast forward to the fight scenes if you see it at all.

By: I Read the Internets - 7/14/07

I Read the Internets - 7/14/07 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:02:13 +0000

[...] One thing I’ve seen quite a lot of the past two weeks, even without spending as much time at the computer as I generally do, is discussion of the Transformers movie. Tekanji at Official Shrub.com Blog has compiled links to a number of particularly good posts on the subject in “Hollywood, please stop shitting on my childhood.” [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:47:11 +0000

If you want to ignore all of the other stuff and just enjoy a good robot showdown, fast forward to two hours in and settle down to watch Megatron duke it out with Optimus Prime. No plot required.

Yeah, that’s what I was hoping would be the movie. I even have friends (do I need the single quotes to indicate dubiousness?) who have said it is the geek movie of the summer.

Apparently, it’s also the Typical Hollywood -Ist Trash of the summer as well.

And I was going to go see it. Boo hiss.

Thanks for all the great links, anyway. If it can’t be entertaining, at least it can be more fodder to sharpen my feminist teeth on.

By: Cameron Sorden

Cameron Sorden — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:34:47 +0000

Almost all of the mech fighting occurs in the last 20 minutes of the movie. The fight was actually a little lengthy, given that up until that point the movie hadn’t even really focused on the robots very much.

If you want to ignore all of the other stuff and just enjoy a good robot showdown, fast forward to two hours in and settle down to watch Megatron duke it out with Optimus Prime. No plot required.

By: Lake Desire

Lake Desire — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:50:50 +0000

Thanks for the link! I realized after I wrote that post that the reason I didn’t even mind that they left out the female transformers is because in a world that treats Mikaela as awful as the one in Transformers does, can you blame the Autobots for adopting male personas?