• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    here’s a fun fact - unlike most films of the time, it doesn’t celebrate sexual assault as acceptable!

    It also is surprisingly not bi-phobic - both Fiona’s MMF threesome and Jenny’s European crush’s bisexuality are not treated as aberrations against nature, etc.

    “Stay Black Bert” is a problem though.

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      6 days ago

      Mi scussi guy, everybody at the beach, the hooligans, and literally the entirety of Cooper’s character seems like a way bigger deal than stay black bert lmao.

      I rewatched not long ago and would argue it remains one of the best raunchy teen comedies, not like that’s a high bar but I was still laughing through it.

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        6 days ago

        I mean, the guys at the beach are being mocked for being perverts who women correctly avoid.

        The hooligans . . . . I agree it’s not good to let people think being English is acceptable, but they are taking the piss out of Italians, so it’s a hard call . . .

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            5 days ago

            Yeah, call me when American Eyeties are being incarcerated and killed by police at numbers far outside anywhere near representative to their population percentage.

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              4 days ago

              Then you double down by dropping an actual fucking slur while completely forgetting the actual history of Italians in America. Fuck off, racist piece of shit.