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Old 05-24-2015, 07:04 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Why? I was actually in the bathroom for the majority of this scene, so I wasn't even aware that she was sterile until this thread, but I don't really remember much sexism throughout the rest of the movie.
Well even though she wasn't calling herself a monster for being sterile, clearly she is sad about her sterility (so I guess I worded that last post wrong because I think the scene was sexist but not in the way people are saying), and the movie does sort of reduce her to not much more than a (not) mother and a love interest.

Honestly though the sexism isn't a huge deal to me, although it does exist. If it were a better movie, period, I'd probably care more about it, but as it is there are so many problems with the storytelling and the plot and the characters that the sexism just seems like kind of an awkward byproduct of those bigger problems? I don't know.
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