Quote: (08-05-2012 11:40 PM)Cincinnatus Wrote:
I almost posted a thread about this recently, but I've began to really hate Carl Sagan's Contact. I was a fan of the novel for what I considered to be its realistic portrayal of a first human-Intergalactic Being interaction. Then I saw the movie, and began to despise its feminist slant.
Anyways, I'll end this post on a positive note: the last Space Shuttle launch I remember watching live:
I'm not sure how contemporary feminist the message "girl surrounded by strong male influences can find success in the opportunities men around her offer" is. Yes Foster's character is one with a weird upbringing, but in the world of the film it is anomalous. In my recollection of the film her character's arc follows the historical example of smart chicks with weird upbringings who find some success with the approval of men running things.
She's one smart girl in a world of men with a range of smarts, and the smart men specialized in other, more interesting problems. Because she's weird she specialized in a boring bit of fringe that accidentally became interesting. Maybe it is feminist, but in an older sense without quotas where girlies had to prove their ability to get the job and only the interested ones bothered. My recollection of the movie isn't that detailed, I could be wrong.
Feminism today is incompatible with Foster's character in Contact. With Today's feminism Foster's character would get nowhere because she would be surrounded by dumb girls doing the crab bucket routine. With today's feminism the dumb girls are everywhere and the smart girls can't escape.
Instead of engaging productively with work the smart girl loses time to dumb girl politicking and status fights. If she chooses not to spend substantial time playing the dumb girl's games, they ostracize her and her career ends as surely as it would have in the old world of men if she failed to work and demonstrate ability to the Partriarchy's benevolent satisfaction.
With Patriarchy you can have a Marie Curie or an Ada Lovelace. Uncommonly smart chicks with uncommon stories and success,
because they got to insulate themselves from the dumb girls. Like that Carrie Nation bitch smashing up liquor bottles while the other dry old bags bitched about men preferring drink to their company. Today smart girls aren't going to want to do Google if they have to play the TrannyCoC game and talk about how superior sick men in drag are to themselves.
Consider how 1997 - 2007 Google won search with lots of intense math while from 2008-2018 Google search results declined in quality and their newest innovations amount to using "find and replace" to do the censorship. Similarly consider Apple under Steve Jobs was held to Steve Jobs' sensible restraint on the iPhone that it be a phone usable in one hand though it may be capable of many other things. Once his successor Rim Jobs took over that restrain was lifted and while the iPhone X family may include spiffy devices the march there killed the one handed iPhone.
Under Patriarchy everyone gets the opportunity to work for good things. Under Pantsuit old women screams, all anyone can get is shit.
