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Movie Has a Woman Killer and a Woman Heroine

posted 4 years ago by MinorityRules15 (963)
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Insanely woke for 1980.
The original Friday the 13th was a wokefest before wokeness:

Mrs. Pamela "Woke Non-Binary Looking" Voorhees used her strength to kill straight cisgender white men and straight cisgender white women.

A skinny 50 year old non-binary looking woman Mrs. Voorhees killing a bunch of young and fit straight white males and throwing their bodies around like they are wet noodles... She seems to have the strength of Superman and the speed of The Flash the way she got around that camp and threw the bodies through the windows and hung them up on the doors with ease.

The final fight was also 2 women.

Couldn't be any more woke if Robin DiAngelo herself wrote it.

Great film regardless.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7699) 4 years ago

Yeah. And funnilly enough quite a few of the sequels had female survivors as well.

[–] AP (5288) 4 years ago

That’s pretty common for the genre.

[–] GetWokeGoBroke (753) 10 months ago

That doesn't make it woke, woke wasn't even a concept back then. Oh boy.....

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7699) 10 months ago

I like this movie. I don't think it's woke. More just agreeing there was women in the movie. He's the fool.

[–] Martoto (5036) 3 months ago

And yet all the things in it are what snowflakes complain about when they want to bitch about wokeness.

"All the guys are idiots, weaklings or sleazes. And the girl kicks ass. They couldn't make THE MESSAGE more obvious!"

[–] MinorityRules15 (963) 4 years ago

As Halloween (1978) went with the same old cliche of "straight white male killer" with Michael Myers, Sean S. Cunningham decided to "go woke" with Friday the 13th in 1980 and have a female be the killer while simultaneously having another female lead character killing the female killer. The men did not survive and were all killed by an old woman. So woke I can't even see anymore.

[–] ODB82 (2055) 4 years ago

Go woke, go broke. Enjoy making zero profits, F13th Franchise, you stupid idiot!

[–] MinorityRules15 (963) 4 years ago

Sean S. Cunningham's net worth is $20 million. Very woke, indeed.

[–] ODB82 (2055) 4 years ago

I didn’t mean to reply directly to you.

That poor son of a bitch. I hope he’s ok.

[–] DoctorThirteen (13995) 7 months ago

'Sean S. Cunningham's net worth is $20 million.'

Very nice.

[–] Martoto (5036) 3 months ago

Michael Myers is not a man. The movie has his doctor telling people this over and over again.

[–] MinorityRules15 (963) a year ago

Still can't believe how non-binary she looked for 1980.

[–] DoctorThirteen (13995) 7 months ago

I think at the time we said 'dyke-ish' or 'dyke-like'!

[–] GetWokeGoBroke (753) 10 months ago

There's nothing remotely "woke" about this movie, you're looking into things that aren't there.

[–] [deleted] 3 months ago

Part of that cult's pathology is rewriting the past in a snarky, disingenuous way.

[–] DoctorThirteen (13995) 7 months ago

'She seems to have the strength of Superman and the speed of The Flash the way she got around that camp and threw the bodies through the windows and hung them up on the doors with ease.'

😂

'The final fight was also 2 women.'

Yeah, that was pretty cool to see.

[–] BKB (9912) 7 months ago

Well, here's the thing: The term "Woke" was never a thing in 1980 and what they went for is an unexpected twist in never expecting a female could be doing all of this killing, that this sort of thing seemed reserved for males only and they broke the barrier with this is why they did it and it worked

[–] [deleted] 3 months ago

Actually, the filmmakers were doing something called "being creative." The audience was expecting a male killer, so having a woman be the killer was a surprise to the audience. Since nobody in Hollywood is creative today, I understand how this confused you.

[–] Martoto (5036) 3 months ago

At least half the complaints of "wokeness" in a movie or show cite the supposedly undue shoehorning of a woman into a role you would expect a man to normally fill. Or were mean are weak or evil where you might normally expect a man to embody strength and heroism.

What it means is that being anti-woke is a load of BS that snowflakes use and if they were consistent (i.e. honest) they would apply the same scrutiny and standards to lots of movies that they should complain about being woke. But they don't. Because they are not being honest. Just being whiny little bitches.

[–] [deleted] 3 months ago

Do you really not understand how 1980 and 2024 are two different years, or are you just trolling?

[–] Martoto (5036) 3 months ago

But if it's a standard then the date doesn't matter. Unless you are saying that strong women were not out of place in 1980 but they are now and therefore must be considered woke.

How can a strong woman not be woke in 1980 but if it's 2024 it's definitely woke?

The fact that you are defending the trend to call things woke in 2024 but refuse to apply those standards to material with ostensibly the same issues, just proves how utterly bullshit all the snowflake whining about "wokeness" in movies is.