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[arethinn]

So have y'all seen a commercial for "Bad Teacher", this thing with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in it? It makes me angry in the pants. I can't help seeing anything but "A woman's only value is to be young and hot and preferably blond - but then we'll physically punish her for being sexy". (She gets a dodgeball [I think it is] to the face from a kid encouraged to throw "through" her, not "at" her.) I hope that right after that, she goes, like, "You little TWERP!" and pwns his ass, but somehow I'm not holding my breath.

I dunno. I may be reading too much into 30 seconds. But it just looks like the whole thing is going to come out sexist if not outright misogynistic.

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[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

a misogynistic, sexist movie coming out of a major hollywood studio?

perish the thought!

[arethinn]

Oh, I know. Somehow it was just really pressing my buttons that day.

[elven-ranger.livejournal.com]

GRRRR at sexist film angle on women. I havent seen the ad, but things like that make me wild with rage.

[pyro-ike.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen, she's a shallow/terrible teacher (hence the title), and assumedly there's some reason that the kid wants to hit her with a dodgeball. I'm sure there will be a 'true beauty comes from inside/shows in your actions' lesson involved somewhere amongst the slapstick.