if they rebooted austin powers it would either be the most tone deaf unfunny incredibly offensive movie in years OR they’d do it right and really keep with the times in being very self aware and it would be one of the best films in decades. austin powers would be a massive support of trans rights because trans women means more women for him to shag
oh your pronouns are she/they? well baby lemme she/them titties shagadelic
austin powers discovers bisexuality and it blows his fucking mind
sub plots of the movie include him learning who he thought was a woman he previously had relations with is a trans man now and powers teaching him the ways of picking up women & powers learning he has a daughter from one of his many escapades who’s accidentally followed in his footsteps to also become a spy. the two have to team up and powers struggles being a father after being absent for so long, but eventually it’s revealed his daughter is a lesbian and they bond over their mutual love of shagging women
the only joke made in regards to the trans man’s gender is powers going “you’re a man now? now that’s groovy, honey! sorry, is it still okay to call you honey?”
the trans man is revealed from powers learning about bisexuality and lamenting that he could’ve also been shagging men this entire time, only for the trans man to be like “well….”
instead of the usual awful transphobic joke of being disgusted powers is instead ecstatic that he’s already had relations with another man and that the pressure is already off for future encounters
there’s a mid credits scene of him celebrating his first planned encounter with a man and him making a comment about how he’s finally been with “both” genders, where he’s then informed of non-binary people existing and how there’s a whole world of genders for him to explore and it freeze frames on his shocked but absolutely delighted face
I hate the trope of “I refuse to hit women!! [Gets decked]” cause it’s boring but I do like the trope of someone in an RPG going “hey I don’t wanna hit a kid that’s kinda fucked up” and the kid just obliterates them
“i refuse to hit a woman!” = Sexist, overdone, does nothing to actually empower the woman or make the guy seem nice
“I refuse to hit a kid” = valid, even funnier when the kid whips absolutely ass in one go
The ONLY exception to this is Mob Psycho where it’s a kid vs woman fight, in which the kid doesn’t want to hit a woman because he has been told that only scumbags hit women. And then the lady pauses the fight to explain this is a different situation and he’s not bad for defending himself.
tumblr is probably the best website because you can say things like “hey. dont cry. suck her sloppy saturday wednesday ok?” and everyone will be like yeah this expresses a coherent thought
i think popular media culture is poisoned in the following ways:
if you like something, people will make fun of you because you have admitted to experiencing a sincere emotion. this makes people defensive about what they like.
if you don’t like something, people will take your opinion personally and attack you. this makes people feel like they have to have a very good reason to dislike something.
people reach for reasons to like vs dislike things that are serious and often politically relevant so they can defend themselves from other opinion-havers.
these positions mutually reinforce each other until it is assumed that any declaration of liking or disliking something is both personally and politically relevant by default.
i am forced to look at this every time one of my fandom posts blows up.
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