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Review: But I”m a Cheerleader – 1999, directed by Jamie Babbit.
Teen romantic comedies were not unusual in 1999, but a gay, R-rated one certainly was. Megan is a 17-year-old high school cheerleader, living in Fremont. She’s religious (vaguely Protestant), and has a boyfriend. Nonetheless, her friends and family stage an intervention, confronting her with dubious evidence of her homosexuality (e.g. her vegetarianism, and more relevantly the female pin-ups from her locker). Even worse, her parents send her to True Directions, a conversion therapy camp.
You might expect conversion therapy to involve a lot of prayer, but in fact religion is barely mentioned at True Directions. The program is more about enforcing gender roles: For example, the girls are taught the proper way to do housework and change an infant, while the boys are taught soldiering and auto maintenance. In contrast, later in the film a character asks an ex-ex-gay if he can teach her how to be a lesbian, and his response is that there is no one way; she’s just going to have to keep being herself. Charitably, I don’t believe the message is that you need to be gay to be free, but that we are all restricted by social norms, and homosexuality is merely one way to transgress.
Megan is horrified to discover that she is in fact a lesbian, and applies herself to the conversion program. Her fellow camper/patient Graham, however, believes it’s all bullshit: “You are who you are, Megan. The only trick is not getting caught.” Graham is at True Directions solely to protect her inheritance from her bigoted father. Eventually Megan opens her mind to self-acceptance.
Other reviews have compared But I’m a Cheerleader to John Waters’ films, and I can see the resemblance. The film is filled with strange characters and is a bit surreal. No one is exactly a villain, not even the director of True Directions. Rather, everyone is following their own lights or dealing with their own hang-ups.
Verdict: Recommended to fans of light comedy.
#filmstr #movies #review #pride #PrideMonth
I’d never heard of Messer Chups until you linked to them. So they’re like a Russian goth surf rock band?
Review: But I”m a Cheerleader – 1999, directed by Jamie Babbit.
Teen romantic comedies were not unusual in 1999, but a gay, R-rated one certainly was. Megan is a 17-year-old high school, cheerleader, living in Fremont. She’s religious (vaguely Protestant), and has a boyfriend. Nonetheless, her friends and family stage an intervention, confronting her with dubious evidence of her homosexuality (e.g. her vegetarianism, and more relevantly the female pin-ups from her locker). Even worse, her parents send her to True Directions, a conversion therapy camp.
You might expect conversion therapy to involve a lot of prayer, but in fact religion is barely mentioned at True Directions. The program is more about enforcing gender roles: For example, the girls are taught the proper way to do housework and change an infant, while the boys are taught soldiering and auto maintenance. In contrast, later in the film a character asks an ex-ex-gay if he can teach her how to be a lesbian, and his response is that there is no one way; she’s just going to have to keep being herself. Charitably, I don’t believe the message is that you need to be gay to be free, but that we are all restricted by social norms, and homosexuality is merely one way to transgress.
Megan is horrified to discover that she is in fact a lesbian, and applies herself to the conversion program. Her fellow camper/patient Graham, however, believes it’s all bullshit: “You are who you are, Megan. The only trick is not getting caught.” Graham is at True Directions solely to protect her inheritance from her bigoted father. Eventually Megan opens her mind to self-acceptance.
Other reviews have compared But I’m a Cheerleader to John Waters’ films, and I can see the resemblance. The film is filled with strange characters and is a bit surreal. No one is exactly a villain, not even the director of True Directions. Rather, everyone is following their own lights or dealing with their own hang-ups.
Verdict: Recommended to fans of light comedy.
#filmstr #movies #review #PrideMonth #pride
Pablo Escobar?
“We?”
As always, my sympathies are with civilians: people who are trying to live peaceful, productive lives when government armies start dropping bombs on them. And I don’t care which side of a political line they live on, or which government claims them.
#war #Russia #Ukraine
Paying 18,888 sats gets you lifetime access to nostr.wine and one free month of filter.nostr.wine. You don’t have to pay monthly for the filter relay, however. You can pay for up to 720 days.
If you stay away for a while or visit at unusual times, they’ll probably move on.
Did you unintentionally draw an audience to your vibe spot?
I think I prefer childish Asuka, even if she would be difficult to take in real life. I wonder if Hideaki Anno is bringing the characters along with him as he ages.
I didn’t realize the Platinum Edition DVD release (video says 2003, I think it’s 2004) was at least partly redrawn. Asuka seems less childish in the rebuild.
How many times is Hideaki Anno going to make Evangelion? I thought he got the ending right (finally) with The End of Evangelion, so I wasn’t excited to see a retelling.
Thank you! nostr:npub1g0wmxtcsjnnmq7x2vdpymczss47ch5gzuwfkw47s22lehvklxa2scpuvzk ⚡💥♥️🌹
#asuka #evangelion #anime #plugsuit
Is that from the rebuild? I think I saw two of those.
Brave supports the same bang codes that DuckDuckGo does.
nostr:npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j How can I add a NIP-36 content-warning tag to a note?
A web server doesn’t have to be a large program that does a lot.
I remember Genitorturers from the video game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. This was the song playing over and over again in the Anarch bar:
Genitorturers! I haven’t thought about them for a while.