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Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.

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[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Different country, different culture” doesn’t make homophobia okay, and it doesn’t make it okay to call the movie homophobic when it had nothing at all to do with gay people. They’re just calling it that because their fragile patriarchy conceives of an attack against it as being anti-man which to them is also gay. It’s a disgusting and wrong point of view, and we can say that despite their country and culture.

Barbie was a pretty thorough takedown of of patriarchy and hardly seemed superficial to me.

And I would hope those counties’ points of view would in fact be very difficult to understand.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If pretending a minority within your population doesn't exist unless you're oppressing them or banning anything that might remind people they exist, your culture is fucked up and wrong.

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 1 points 1 year ago

But I can't kiss my uncle on the lips when we meet if I know homosexuals exist, they make it gay. - some dude in one of these countries.

[–] echoplex21@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they're using homosexuality as a front for not wanting the women of the country to watch. Wouldn't want them to find any sense of empowerment from the movie. I honestly can't even remember anything that was explicitly homosexual in the film.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they got lost in Ryan Gosling's eyes.

Stupid sexy Gosling.

[–] echoplex21@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol my wife did say she was slightly concerned with my sexuality after I got out of the theater gushing over him.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Better if you gush over him than me. :)

[–] coleseph@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Different country, shitty hateful culture

Also a good movie.

[–] birdcat@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Phhss, Amateurs! Real men are not afraid of homosexuality; they ban the movie for the scary dots in the water! 😤

9dash

[–] Clav64@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

But... How? I can't think of a moment in the movie there is any "homosexuality".

Maybe the "I'll beach you off" bit, but that's more of a play on words and the characters most definitely don't understand what they are saying.

[–] MaxPower@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's always "sex, sex, sex" with these countries. Everywhere they look there is sex. /s

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Fuck these fascist cunts.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

When will places learn that going to or watching movies is not mandatory. I have not seen one in ages. Watched two old sci fi films though last night. Its so strange. I just watch whatever I feel like or not. Maybe I do something else. Life. Its bigger. Its bigger than you and....

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They probably saw all the vibrant colors in the movie trailers and immediately fixated on “gay”…

[–] Infinity187@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Backward as counties to begin with....from a Western perspective.