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Originally Posted by Josef K
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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It is a big deal though. It's not a big deal when you look at it as a singular thing, but sexism isn't singular. It's representative of an ingrained, subconscious, gender ideology.
The problem isn't that this character is a sexist, patriarchal depiction of a woman (assuming she is for the sake of argument, I'm not arguing whether or not she is because I haven't seen the movie). The problem is the conditioning our society undergoes in order for sexism overall to be so casually placed in our media, which is what continues the cycle. Sexism is different than homophobia or racism because it is usually more subtle and underlying. It's also the next frontier of social revolution for progressives. It's way easier for the common person to spot homophobia over sexism because sexism is very subconscious and very ingrained and we are conditioned to be sexist because this innate perception of normality is rooted in literally every form of media that we have. It's not any particular person's fault, but it is something that has to change if we wish to progress as a society.