![]() She’s smart about some things, dumb about others. “I mean, I guess she is, in some ways, but truthfully, although Juliet is remarkably good at fighting supernatural beasts, she’s a fully developed character all to herself. ![]() If I watch the Bachelorette and those dudes take their tops off and every one of them has amazing pecs - yeah, that makes me feel like crap as well.” I am an avid reader of Marvel comics and, believe me, Wolverine’s ass makes me feel shitty about my own ass in comparison. “But welcome to NEARLY EVERY SINGLE THING IN POP CULTURE EVER. “If you’re saying that Juliet Starling is, like Barbie, an impossible ideal that makes women feel bad about their own bodies in comparison well, okay. But my question is, so what? How in the world does that convey that women are less than men?” ![]() And, yes, that probably helps to sell copies of the game. To be honest, I think a lot of the criticisms of LC‘s ‘sexism’ are really coming from a place where the secret message is sex is bad, sexual attraction is bad, lust is bad. ![]() There is nothing in the game, ever, that makes females somehow less than males. “But I think it’s important people don’t confuse sexuality with sexism. And there’s a lot of grindhouse and Russ Myer in LC - a fun, floppy, over-the-top sexuality that plays with those old forms but is self–aware of them the entire time.” A lot of that is just because Lollipop Chainsaw took an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach - it’s utterly shameless in that regard. Lollipop Chainsaw is titillating, for sure. “Our physical forms - and the idealized forms of those physical forms we find in pop culture - are something most of us find appealing, whether it’s Juliet’s butt or Batman’s ripped abs. “Well, listen, like it or not we are, actually, all objects,” he responded. James Gunn, for his part, doesn’t try to, but he refuses to classify the game as “sexist” in any way. The game has been accused of objectifying the lead character, and it’s certainly difficult to deny it. Regardless of what Lollipop Chainsaw says about relationships and no matter how much it objectifies Nick, there’s no escaping the fact that Grasshopper’s game features a cheerleader in a very skimpy skirt who isn’t shy about providing gratuitous panty shots. I think males and females - and especially teenage males and females - tend to commodify each other and that’s a dangerous thing to any relationship.” That said, while writing it, I didn’t think of this in terms of gender, I thought of it in terms of character and plot. So, yes, that is definitely gender role reversal. And Juliet needs to learn how to let go of control. ![]() “But within this emasculation, Nick has to find some worth other than being the strong one. And, on top of that, he loses his body and penis (which is just sort of the straw that broke the camel’s back).” He starts off as this cool high school jock, and he thinks his girlfriend is this demure cheerleader, and then discovers she is a thousand times tougher - that is, more traditionally ‘masculine’ - than he’ll ever be. Nick is not only emasculated, he is SUPER emasculated. “Nick is objectified by Juliet - he’s literally turned into an accessory, a commodity, and his humanity is denied. “Essentially, it’s true,” said Gunn, discussing Nick’s objectification. ![]()
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