What is the source of these movies? Are they just male wet dreams or are they do they truly represent the hatred of men of women? Frankly, I couldn't sit through this film and I won't but it occurs to me that the more women assert their autonomy from men, the more men retreat into hatred of women. So appropos this, see the English Guardian's report on Trump's latest appointment which I think proves my point:
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, endorsed an extremist Christian doctrine that envisions civil government being subordinate to Old Testament law in a series of podcasts released last year.
The doctrine of “sphere sovereignty”, a position rooted in the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR), calls for capital punishment for homosexuality and strictly patriarchal families and churches.
In the recordings, published over February and March 2024, Hegseth also lashes out at public schools, claiming they implement an “egalitarian, dystopian LGBT nightmare”. He even rails against democracy, which he says “our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous”. The Guardian contacted Hegseth with questions about his beliefs on the separation of church and state, and sphere sovereignty, but received no reply. -- The Guardian, 24 January 2025
It seems the movies you focus on are outcroppings ofv reaction poking through the facade of democracy and liberation, masquerading as what? Art? Entertainment, so Chaucer seems apt doesn't he, given as how he comes from the old Dark Age to reemerge into to the New Dark Age.
Hi, William! Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments and questions. I will say this: I very much agree with you about the uncomfortable resonances between this film and what we're seeing go on in the news lately. Hegseth is emblematic, of course, as you point out. And I will say, too, that I'm often shocked and dismayed by how far-right groups seem to be taking up the Middle Ages as a moral touchstone. It's especially painful to me, given that, sure, the Middle Ages were a very "dark" time in many ways, but that's far from the whole story there. And many very serious medieval Christians would strenuously object to much of what's going on in this country in the name of Christianity.
Yes, agreed but it's the selective nature of this reactionary propaganda that uses the emotions of loss and nostalgia for an imagined past isn't it? For example, the right's use of the 'family', or rather a fantasy family, a (white) middle class mum and dad and two kids living in an imaginary suburban 'community'.
And I concur, the misnamed 'Dark Ages' eh. I'm back to Silvia Federici:
"…[a] battle is fought on many fronts because Reason must be vigilant against the attacks of the carnal self, and prevent “the wisdom of the flesh” (in Luther’s words) from corrupting the powers of the mind.
Thus the right's regurgitating the idea of the corrupting nature of female sexuality, ideas dredged up from 500 years ago! Depressing times, it's as if we've learned nothing from struggles of the last 150 years.
What is the source of these movies? Are they just male wet dreams or are they do they truly represent the hatred of men of women? Frankly, I couldn't sit through this film and I won't but it occurs to me that the more women assert their autonomy from men, the more men retreat into hatred of women. So appropos this, see the English Guardian's report on Trump's latest appointment which I think proves my point:
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, endorsed an extremist Christian doctrine that envisions civil government being subordinate to Old Testament law in a series of podcasts released last year.
The doctrine of “sphere sovereignty”, a position rooted in the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR), calls for capital punishment for homosexuality and strictly patriarchal families and churches.
In the recordings, published over February and March 2024, Hegseth also lashes out at public schools, claiming they implement an “egalitarian, dystopian LGBT nightmare”. He even rails against democracy, which he says “our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous”. The Guardian contacted Hegseth with questions about his beliefs on the separation of church and state, and sphere sovereignty, but received no reply. -- The Guardian, 24 January 2025
It seems the movies you focus on are outcroppings ofv reaction poking through the facade of democracy and liberation, masquerading as what? Art? Entertainment, so Chaucer seems apt doesn't he, given as how he comes from the old Dark Age to reemerge into to the New Dark Age.
Hi, William! Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments and questions. I will say this: I very much agree with you about the uncomfortable resonances between this film and what we're seeing go on in the news lately. Hegseth is emblematic, of course, as you point out. And I will say, too, that I'm often shocked and dismayed by how far-right groups seem to be taking up the Middle Ages as a moral touchstone. It's especially painful to me, given that, sure, the Middle Ages were a very "dark" time in many ways, but that's far from the whole story there. And many very serious medieval Christians would strenuously object to much of what's going on in this country in the name of Christianity.
Yes, agreed but it's the selective nature of this reactionary propaganda that uses the emotions of loss and nostalgia for an imagined past isn't it? For example, the right's use of the 'family', or rather a fantasy family, a (white) middle class mum and dad and two kids living in an imaginary suburban 'community'.
And I concur, the misnamed 'Dark Ages' eh. I'm back to Silvia Federici:
"…[a] battle is fought on many fronts because Reason must be vigilant against the attacks of the carnal self, and prevent “the wisdom of the flesh” (in Luther’s words) from corrupting the powers of the mind.
Thus the right's regurgitating the idea of the corrupting nature of female sexuality, ideas dredged up from 500 years ago! Depressing times, it's as if we've learned nothing from struggles of the last 150 years.