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A
great moment in cinematic history and criticism is taking place.
This moment demonstrates the stupidity and the shallowness of the
American civilization in all its glory.
In
the middle of our little consitutional crisis, when the lives of
millions, possibly hundreds of millions, of people in the world is at
stake, with the end of the American republic all but certain, the
failure of our elected representatives and governmental insitutions
there for all to see, what do these shallow children worry about?
What is at the very top of their list of things to complain about?
What could motivate them to outrage?
Is
it the destruction of the National Endowment for the Arts? No. Is
it that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has disavowed
science? No. Is it the defunding of Planned Parenthood that is
likely to result in the death of or the destruction of the life of
thousands of poor women? No.
What
then?
It
is the burning question about whether or not Wonder Woman shaves her
armpits in the third trailer for the Wonder Woman movie coming out in
a few months. Were her armpits shaved in Photoshop, they wonder.
Perhaps
the right is correct and we are raising a generation of stupid and
shallow snowflakes after all. No one who lived through the 70s
Feminist movement could help but shudder at this throwback to an
earlier period of American radicalism.
I
only hope that Wonder Woman's girdle squeezes these children until
their heads pop with shame.
You
may see this trailer here.
For
a previous discussion of the Feminist issue of shaving, please see here.
