Woke
Out of context: Reply #114
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- neverscared0
Go woke, go broke!” encapsulates the schadenfreude that rightwing culture warriors express when art forms that embrace progressive ideals fail commercially. Such sentiment has been vanquished by the success of Spider-Man: Across the Spider‑Verse, which is currently the biggest film in the US, grossing more than half a billion dollars worldwide in a month. The animated movie, a sequel to 2018’s Oscar‑winning Into the Spider‑Verse, bounces around different universes meeting socially aware, racially diverse superheroes. The main character is African‑Latino Spider-Man, Miles Morales; Gwen Stacy’s Spidey endorses trans rights; there’s an Indian Spider‑Man with an anti‑colonial outlook living in a Mumbai‑Manhattan hybrid; and a pregnant biker Spider‑Woman. One of the film’s themes, spread over two hours of dazzling artwork, is how identity is a constant negotiation of race, class, nationality and gender.
- leave the kids out of this.ApeRobot
- Fuck off with that shitcrazyprick
- and animated by slave labourhotroddy
- maybe it's because a good film is a good film, and the gender of its cast is irrelevant.MrT
- fuck off disney ... u are too progressive ... hehehe... convervatives always so stoopid.neverscared
- reminds me when ladies wearing starting to wear mini skirts and bikinis in public and the convervatives would have it... u will come around like always ..neverscared
- u are always so slow building an open free society ... its a drag.... not a drag queen u hate so much....neverscared
- wouldn´t have itneverscared
- not to miss the point of this triggered rant, but identity IS a constant negotiation of race, class, nationality and gendermonospaced
- just be yourself.robthelad