He's Back

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Somehow, Spielberg returned: He is back this June with a film that promises to be a fascinating feast of esoteric symbolism, propaganda and special effects. 

This film is called Disclosure Day, and it revolves around the idea that the  Feds have hidden from us information about aliens and it's time for them to disclose the truth. 

Many people will no doubt feel excited, - it's another opportunity to relieve the 80's! . But this blog is different. We know things. And this movie interests us for a significantly different reason. 

What mysteries will Disclosure Day reveal to us? What does Mr. Spielberg, the god emperor of Propagandists, want to tell us? This and many other questions will be explored today, in the Pastures of Knowledge. 

Trailer Synopsis  

Based on the trailers (which I link here, here and here) I think I can provide a simple synopsis as to what this movie will be like. 

Emily Blunt is a woman who was abducted as a kid by aliens. They placed a tech thing in her head and gave her psychic powers. We also see a boy who holds hands with her, presumably to make themselves stronger against the ET's. 

Emily Blunt is likely struggling with her powers, like the Marvel character Jean Grey. At some point during a weather report, Emily Blunt has a brief anxiety attack and proceeds to make weird noises, as if possessed by a Coca Cola Demon. 

After the world witnesses her viral posession, she finds herself in big trouble. The government doesn't want people to know about aliens, and she is blowing their cover. 

A journalist who looks like the podcaster Dave Smith starts investigating the event, and is taken into a cabin in the woods. After seeing the Coca Cola Demon event and the apparition of a wheat field circle, Emily Blunt uses her psychic powers to warn him of an impending assassination attempt. 

I predict that both Temu Dave Smith and Not-Jean-Grey will have an "I Learned Things" character arc, similar to the guy from Close Encounters who abandoned his family. This journalist will remember that *he* is the kid who was abducted with Emily Blunt, bringing a stronger connection within them & the aliens.

The purveyor of this information will be the Colman Domingo character. He will play the role of Morpheus from Matrix, and he will awaken our heros to the truth. His name is Mr. Wakefield. 

At some point in the film both characters will develop a desire to disclose the existence of aliens to the masses. Their knowledge makes them a target because they can prove it with certainty. 

Here is were I would put the white beard guy who tortures himself with electric shocks. 

He is surrounded by a clean, soulless corporate environment. Its quite obvious he will be our antagonist, because Spielberg hates corporate capitalists. 

He will likely be working with the government. This feeds into the narrative that the Feds know that ET exists but want to hide it. 

His role will be akin to that of Agent Smith in the Matrix

My prediction is that our protagonists will teach mankind about Aliens around the last third of the movie. A big chaos ensues, but when the beings present themselves publicly and show benevolence (possibly with their psychic powers) everyone will accept them. A dawn of a new age of knowledge and ET fraternity will ensue. 

Extra Tidbits

Other things I want to highlight from the trailers are the following. 

+ Based on the behavior of the deer and the red bird, it seems that Emily Blunt can communicate with them. It's also possible that they might be hidden aliens - like the Skin-Walker witches. 

+ It seems that religion is going to be relevant to the plot. For example, we see a hand holding a crucifix: 

We also see nuns in traditional garb watching a screen in shock: 

One of them says "Why would He make such a vast universe just for us?". The idea is that if you don't believe in aliens, you are making Baby Jesus cry. 

+ We also have the eyes. In popular culture, any change in your eyes is an indication of possession (Ie., if eyes turn black, yellow, or white, you know you're watching a possession movie).

III In this case however, the metallic blue / glowing eyes seem to indicate that the character has found the hidden knowledge of the aliens. An opening of the third eye of the mind. 

Interestingly, the writer of Disclosure Day was already involved in another movie about aliens: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 

In this film, a soviet woman asks an alien to give her knowledge. When the beings find her unworthy, they drive her into torment and set her eyes in flames. 

+ The Coca Cola Demon scene is also very interesting, because guttural noises are also a sign of possession. We also witness her psychic powers as the weather report screen moves abnormally. 

+ Finally, I would like to comment a little bit more on the colour blue. The fact that this is the colour of those who have knowledge about aliens is unlikely to be a coincidence. 

You see, blue is the colour of the first levels of freemasonry. In a way it represents initiation and beginner's knowledge for the stone masons, just as this movie will introduce the masses to a the next era of ET illuminism. 

The Usual "Aliens Exist" Propaganda

As far as we can guess from the trailers, this flick will include multiple popular beliefs about the consequences of alien life. I want to list them here and add some comments: 

ET Exists, Therefore We Need to Change and Question our Beliefs

That's a supposition, not a certain fact. Who says the aliens aren't evil capitalists too? "Aliens come, therefore we change" This sounds like the Disneyfied version of All Tomorrows. 

Some people seem to believe that aliens could disprove some of our beliefs. I, a stubborn believer, beg to differ.

For example, some people use aliens as an excuse to attack creationism. But If aliens were to exist, they might have originated here on earth. Since the universe started out small, they were able to extend their dominion into other galaxies, only to be separated from us by its expansion. 

I mean, this is obviously just speculation and not hard science, but if the so-called Disclosure Day happens, what's gonna prevent me - and many others - from keeping our beliefs unchanged? 

I want to see Richard Dawkins dropping his belief in evolution because some dingy space slug told him it believes in God. 

ET Exists, Therefore My Infantile Worldview is Better than Yours 

This is something than Spielberg said in the trailers. That an alien disclosure would make us better people and improve our world: 

It sounds like a nice little hope he keeps to himself. He is still wrong. Spielberg has lots of imagination, so why hasn't he imagined that these alien civilizations could be literal space Nazis? 

I would like to remind him that when the Europeans and Native Americans learned about each other, neither became goody two shoes Hollywood socialists who immediately proceeded to question their beliefs. 

The Truth About the Alien Conspiracy Theories 

"This 79 year cover up of the truth has to end" - the movie

Undoubtedly, many people will leave the cinemas thinking that aliens must be out there, somewhere. I have seen some people say that Spielberg "knows that aliens exist" and has wanted to tell us ever since.

But the truth is that this "aliens exist" stuff is likely inserted into the masses for other reasons. Even if they were hiding space entities from us, aliens are more likely to be a psychological operation. 

We know, for example, that during the 1950's and 60's the American government conducted mind control experiments on people. Therefore it makes sense to believe that many supposed "abductions" are just cover ups for this types of operations. 

Many abduction survivors recount being experimented upon, subjected to invasive procedures or scary aliens looking at them as in a scientific mission. If the CIA wanted to do something illegal with human bodies, all they would have to do is find realistic alien suits. A frightened and drugged individual would be confused enough to believe ET wanted to see his intestines. 

This connects back to the film, when we see that Not-Jean-Grey has butterflies in her room. 

"Monarch Project" is an alternate

name for MK-Ultra. It was inspired by how the worm becomes a monarch butterfly - as if it was transformed through Brain control. 

Another popular interpretation for UFO sightings is the testing of new vehicular technologies by the military. 

We also have the Blue Beam Project. 

Blue Beam is basically a possible psychological operation in which the elites fake the arrival of Extraterrestrial beings for whatever purpose they have in mind. 

For example, if they want to bring a New World Order, they can say that we must unite ourselves under a world government because that's what ET wants and we have to change because he comes from space. 

The USA ZOG Empire, for example, could say that Iran or China are allied with a scary extraterrestrial civilization as an excuse to push for more wars. 

Many promoters of this theory say that hyperealistic CGI or AI generated images will be used on a Blue Beam event. I am not so sure if AI is powerful enough yet. But the era of hyper realistic CGI is already within us: a simple check on the popular Backrooms videos on YouTube is sufficient to prove my point. 

Blue Beam grade CGI can be used against small targets. For example, they can scare members of the Iranian army with a fake UFO hologram. A new Jim Jones could be deceived and groomed by the CIA with Blue Beam technology.

Perhaps in the end a Blue Beam event never happens, but I think many of those who stubbornly believe that the elites have hidden alien life from us are begging to be deceived by a fake Disclosure Day. 

In short: alien deception hides the real deal, and distracts people 

Conclusion 

Disclosure Day will premiere on the 10th of June of this year. It kinda came out of nowhere - I just learned about it two weeks ago - but it will likely impress itself into the minds of many people.

If something like Blue Beam arrives upon us, will they become the grinning rooftop party-goers from Independence Day? 

Millstone Revival: Summary Chapter

All through this series we have been analyzing some cuestionable family movie tropes and the different way in which they might appear. Considering the educational aspects of my posts, I have decided to conclude this series with a summary of all of them. So today, in the Pastures of Knowledge, I will provide a summary of the Millstone Revival series. 

Chapter One: The Self Acceptance Message

What is the Self Acceptance Message?

+ This message consists in the following premises: 

1: You are perfect just the way you are. Accepting yourself is virtuous. 

2: You shouldn't stop doing what gives you happiness / identity for the sake of others. 

3: Others should accept you just the way you are and you should accept others just the way they are

What is the Little Brother of the Self Acceptance Message? 

+ The little brother of the self acceptance message is the acceptance message. 

+ In this message, you are encouraged into non-discrimination and are told to accept others. 

+ The acceptance message is not evil per se. It's just that it is everywhere and therefore it becomes the only value for society. 

What are it's different variants? 

+ In some self acceptance movies, our protagonist is forbidden from doing something they like. They learn to accept themselves for what they like and make others to accept them. 

+ In other self acceptance movies, our protagonist is discriminated against. The character learns to accept itself and teaches others to accept them. It's about accepting what you are. 

What's Wrong with them? 

+ One shouldn't "accept themselves" if what they are doing is evil. One shouldn't "accept themselves" if they are corrupted / evil. 

+ In short: You shouldn't just "be yourself" if you are evil. It's better to be the best version of yourself. Whatever is evil within yourself is not sanitized because it comes from yourself. 

+ The be yourself message can be used to teach good things (Ie., the value of not being a hypocrite) but that doesn't mean it's the only way of teaching this values. 

Chapter Two: The Good Villains 

What is a Good Villain? 

+ A Good Villain is a what happens when a character who would otherwise be an antagonist, is the protagonist of our story. 

What is Wrong with a Good Villain?

+ There's nothing wrong with a redemption story, but the following tend to appear in this films: 

+ They are used to introduce the be yourself message 

+ Many feed into the idea that if you have a sad backstory, you have an excuse to engage in evil. This mentality is used in real life to protect criminals, independently of their will to redeem themselves. 

+ Some show villainy as something fun and cool. While the kids will not necessarily become cartoon villains after watching "The Minions", they might become nihilists who believe there's no distinction between good and evil. 

What are it's Different Variants? 

+ The Symbolical good villain is when our character is a common symbol of evil (ie., a dragon) but behaves in an acceptable way.  

+ The Acceptance Good Villain is when our character was corrupted due to discrimination. The redemption arc often involves learning to socialize. 

+ The Discordian Good Villain is a character who is just evil and we are supposed to think that their evil is funny. 

Chapter Three: Villain Songs 

What is a Villain Song?

+ A villain song is a song were a malevolent, antagonistic character sings about themselves and their motivations. 

What's Wrong with Villain Songs? 

+ In some villain songs, the antagonist try to justify themselves, making excuses for their behavior that sometimes land very well. 

+ Some villain songs are glorified power fantasies that make their motivations enticing and convincing. 

+ Other villain songs glorify evil, because they consist on a villain boasting about their malice. 

Chapter Four: Lowbrow Moments 

What is a Lowbrow Moment?

+ A lowbrow moment is any moment that includes a reference / joke about reproduction. 

What are some of the movies that have taken the Lowbrow Moments too Far? 

+ Bee Movie, Penguins of Madagascar, Show Dogs 2018, Zootopia. 

Which Movies have glorified toxic / questionable relationships? 

Belle and the Beast, K-Pop Demon Hunters. 

Chapter 5: Toxic Environmentalism 

What is Toxic Environmentalism? 

+ Toxic Environmentalism is when one tries to defend the planet and it's biomes using false ideas, or uses environmentalism as an excuse to exercise hatred for other humans.

How does it Manifests Itself?

+ It manifests itself in those movies were pagan entities will help save the planet, or when pagan entities must be saved from pollution. 

+ It manifests itself in those movies were mankind is portrayed as the beacon of unredeemable evil. 

+ It manifests itself in those movies were every single tribe in existence is conformed by elf-like people who live in perfect harmony with nature and no tribulations, till the point when its almost laughable. 

Chapter 6: Pagan and Occult Themes 

What is Paganism? 

+ Any religion is pagan that: 

1: Worships multiple gods (polytheism). 

2: Worships gods that are not omnipotent or whose omnipotence depends on something else. 

3: Worships gods that dwell within nature, or are one with nature. 

4: Worships ancestors or items on the natural world (stones, trees, animals)

How does it manifest itself? 

+ Any films where the story happens in a pagan world: 

1: With multiple different gods

2: With an energy that dwells within things

3: Where the gods are not omnipotent 

4: And when one can be spiritually guided by ancestors, stones, plants, etc.

What is The Occult? 

+ Esoteric religions are those whose doctrines remain hidden or secret. Some of this are also secret societies. 

+ I am also counting here religions that indulge in magic (the using of mysterious forces) like Wicca and Voodoo. 

+ Sometimes their practitioners mix different forms of esotericism.

+ Some examples of esoteric groups involve the Kabbalah, the Ordo Templi Orientis, Freemasonry, Theosophy, Anthroposophy and some Satanic associations. 

How Does It Manifest Itself? 

+ It manifests itself through symbols; sometimes they are naked to the eye, sometimes they require attention, and sometimes they are so subtle that only the initiates can see them. 

Chapter 7: Feminism 

What is Femenism? 

+ Feminism is any movement that seeks to protect women's welfare in an unseemly way, or due to the influence of false ideas. 

How Does it Manifest Itself? 

+ Some films are not about feminism, but contain some femenist ideas / undertones. 

+ Other films use the be yourself blueprint as a way of explaining femenist ideas. The character does something they like against the expectations of society. 

+ Many films include overpowered girl bosses, downplaying the non-female characters as the film focus, exclusively (and often very poorly) on how powerful the girls are. Many of this girl bosses can be said to be horrible people. 

Conclusion

It's very important to be careful with movies. They're often not written with out best interests in mind. 

But most importantly, it is necessary to take proper care of your children and your soul at all costs.

+ Do not be too harsh with your children, or else they will rebel against you. Even in those things you got right. Humiliations, comparisons with other siblings, and sarcastic comments must be avoided. 

+ It's not okay to ban things that were never forbidden by the Church (like going to theme parks or playing videogames) for the sake of an attempt at austerity. Be austere with yourself first before banning everything. 

+ Do not be too weak with your children. Put them limits and they will grow up to follow those limits. Pampering a child into weakness it's also a form of neglect, and you won't even like the final result. 

+ Be clear with the instructions you give, and explain the motivations behind them.

+ If you socially isolate (no friends outside the family structure) your child for "Homeschooling", you are a bad parent. Your children can meet other children at parks / extracurriculars. 

The Animal Farm Movie (Part 2)

It's finally here: the dreaded adaptation of Animal Farm by Andy Serkis and Seth Rogen has finally breached the cinemas. A military of hatred has raised on the internet, uniting everyone against this offensive film. 

As for myself, I can see that my predictions for the movie were correct. Animal Farm 2026 is indeed a vacuous criticism of capitalism made by capitalist Hollywood. The main problem for the animals is not the pigs becoming corrupted, but the pigs selling out the farm to sex swapped Elon Musk. Eventually, the pigs get defeated and everyone restores Animal Farm into its former socialist glory. 

While I have found the discourse around this movie to be boring, I was still able to pick up a few things that were worth commenting. So today, in the Pasture of knowledge, I will provide you with some commentary about this film adaptation. 

The Commentary of the Slop Right

I have seen many of the Slop Right masses repeat the "Orwell Hated Socialism" mantra; as if it wasn't publicly available knowledge that the guy was a Democratic socialist.

In fact, for every comment that says "Orwell Hated Socialism", there is a nerd saying that *actually* Orwell was a socialist. This are probably followed by comments discussing whether socialism and communism can be said to be the same movement. 

In reality and as I said before, Animal Farm is not a condemnation of the revolution: it is the condemnation of those who make the revolution about getting power. Stalin bad, Trotsky good. 

The fact that so many people are unaware of this fact is quite amusing. How many are loosing their minds over the disrespect of the book, abd yet they don't know that they themselves are disrespecting it? 

Moses the Crow 

One of the Characters who is missing in this adaptation is Moses, the crow. This omission is quite telling and is significantly important.  

In the original book, Moses plays the role of the Orthodox Church. Moses preaches to other animals that they will go to "Sugarcandy Mountain", a Heaven for all suffering beasts.

Moses is fed beer and crumbs by Mr. Jones, his master and commander. He leaves the farm after the revolution but returns and accepts Napoleon as his new master and commander. 

This represents that the Mordorox Church worked with the Czar, long before Stalin was a thing. This represents that the Mordorox Churcsh sold out to Stalin and is now infiltrated with former KGB agents. This also represents that Orwell, being a *true* socialist, didn't like organized religion. 

The reason I called this omission "quite telling". can be found on the cover for this post. Angel Studios is owned by Mormons, and the Mormons share many similarities work Moses the crow. 

Mormons are a subsidiary of the Freemasons. Mormons are a cult which means their coercion style is more abrasive than that of other religions. Mormons are one of those "christian" churches that beg for money so much that they create more disbelief than belief. 

Mormons even believe that everyone can eventually enter heaven. It's the same doctrine as Moses's SugarCandy Mountain were all animals go to heaven and no specific moral code is ever given. 

Mormon studios like Angel are subsidiaries of the establishment, just like Moses the Crow. Mormons used to beg the crumbs and the beer of the american christian masses, back when they were conservative. Now the winds have shifted, and Mormons beg for the crumbs and the beer of the judeocentric establishment. Angel Studios is just a symptom of the sickness in the LDS church. 

Angel is (Unsurprisingly) Selling Out to Hollywood 

Speaking of subsidiaries to the state, I have noticed that Angel is (unsurprisingly) selling out to Hollywood. 

The reason I call this unsurprising is that even when their one and only success was The Chosen they acted in this way. Writing Jesus into telling fart jokes is not a sign of genuine respect for Christianity but a sign that they were always grifters. 

While the 2023 film Sound of Freedom offended Hollywood, that was because the film was perceived as coming from the Qanon Trumpite Cult which has never been popular among the stars. It represented the rise of a rival studio during a year were many films flopped. 

Since then, Angel Studios has invited multiple big names into their films. To Booth: 

John Lithgow in Cabrini (2024) 

Mark Hamill, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Kenneth Branagh, in King of Kings (2025) 

Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Turner, Iman Vellani, Laverne Cox, Woody Harrelson for Animal Farm. 

So whoever thought that Angel would save us from evil Hollywood was greatly deceived.

The "Sound of Freedom" Reference

During a particularly repulsive scene, the Seth Rogen pig farts for an uncomfortably long moment and then says triumphantly. "This is the sound of freedom." 

This is an obvious reference to the aforementioned 2023 film "Sound of Freedom". Let me add a little bit of a retrospective as to why this "joke" is actually abominable. 

Back in summer 2023, the release of Sound of Freedom was met with huge controversy. The mainstream left gave it a blanket rejection; not necessarily because they opposed the message against trafficking but because they believed it's story was based on falsehood and Trumpism. 

The mainstream right on the other hand received it with standing applause. I got the impression that some would accuse you of being an abuser if you dared to say anything negative about it. 

Angel Studios made big money from a movie whose main theme can't be described with words. Angel Studios and it's supporters sold the film as a bold statement against both the traffickers and Hollywood, who is full of evil people. A movie so virtuous you had to see it, and so serious that it would change the world.

Skip to 3 years later and now Sound of Freedom is the punchline of yet another fart joke. 

This just proves what I have said about the studio before. They are so desperate to become a big studio like Fox or Disney that they are willing to submit to Hollywood's opinions about their most successful movie. 

Angel Studios is led by a people so unserious that Jesus Christ, political novels for adults and even Child Trafficking itself can be subjected to flatulence jokes and it's okay because we're the largest christian movie studio ever. 

Worst Mom Ever

Today is Mother's day, a day I don't care about because my mother never cared about it. You see, we don't really celebrate Mother's Day or Father's Day or Valentine's Day in my family.

Other than Christmas and Easter we don't celebrate other festivities. However, the presence of mother's day is ubitiquous, so I might as well talk about it. 

The purpose of mother's day is to glorify and perpetuate the ideal of motherhood: women are encouraged to be the best version of themselves while taking care of their children. Therefore, it is significantly cumbersome to see bad mothers  getting away with being publicly bad mothers. 

The same applies, albeit in a different way, to family movie characters. 

While I am yet to see a film glorifying the evil step mothers of fairy tales, there are other bad mothers whose presence is more insidious since the movie doesn't pay attention to their incompetence. 

Today, in the Pasture of Knowledge, I will rant against the worst Mom ever: Valka from How To Train Your Dragon.  

Valka 

The story of Valka is not for the weak. 

This woman lived with her child Hiccup and her husband Stoik in the viking village of Berk. She never really fitted in. Which means she was really sad. 

One day, the dragons attacked Berk (again) and one of them sneaked into Valka's house. The frightened woman stormed into the room, willing to risk her life to protect her child. 

What she didn't know is that her maternal instincts would die just as she acted upon them. 

The dragon didn't attack Hiccup. It's gruesome features stared with curiosity and admiration at the little 3D animated white baby. It wasn't a monster. It was an intelligent, gentle beast, who acted out of curiosity and not viciousness. 

And so, Valka stared back. What she didn't realize in this moment of tension, is that the dragon unwittingly destroyed something in her. Her motherhood instincts. 

When Stoick and his fellow warriors stormed in the scene, the dragon snatched her for no reason as the desperate vikings looked hopelessly. 

The movie then tells us that Valka and the dragon became friends. She learned to read the character and instincts of the fearsome beasts. She found a massive cave where dragons lived in peace. She named her friend "Cloud-Jumper" which is probably the worst name in the entire franchise. She and the owl-faced Cloud-Jumper would pierce the skies, striking upon those who dared to hunt the winged serpents. 

But Valka never looked back upon her infant child. 

Yes, that's right. Valka abandoned her family to be a hippy dragon-loving environmentalist activist. Despite the dragon's ability to fly significant distances, Valka never returned to Berk to check on her infant child or her husband. Never let a child without a mother get in the way of animal activism! 

What makes it even more infuriating is that when Hiccup reunites with her, he never questions her choice to be a bad mother. They play around with Toothless and Cloud-Jumper but no one ever asks Valka why she never came back. 

At the end of the movie, Valka is still a dragon-loving activist, but she never says sorry even when her husband dies. 

Incompetent At Animal Welfare 

Upon further examination, I noticed that even though Valka did became an animal rights activist, she never did something that could have protected dragon's lives: She never actually *explained* to the Vikings why dragons should be spared from cages and swords. 

The characters in How to Train Your Dragon are remarkably bad at communication, but this woman definitely takes the cake. 

Nothing prevented Valka from returning to Berk and showing herself to the stunned vikings. She could have then presented Cloud-Jumper and explain that dragons were trainable, noble creatures that made  awesome pets. 

I mean, it's almost like if her maternal instincts were so obliterated by the encounter with Cloud-Jumper that she couldn't even pass them on to her new animal welfare enterprise. 

Of course, that would have meant the plot of the first film would never happen in the first place; but then that is why we have writing manuals. Had the movie-makers actually written a competent excuse as to why Valka never came back, they would have preserved the integrity of the entire franchise.

What we got instead is a woman that became both a species-traitor and the dumbest animal activist in the entirety of fiction, only to suddenly spring out of nowhere and pretend that she was a good mother all along. 

Wasted Opportunity: She Could have been Better 

However, why did this happen? Did Dreamworks had the nefarious intention of telling young girls that they should drop their babes and go free geese from Foie-Gras farms?  

Such a scenario is more than possible, however, I think this character was most likely a victim of re-writes and possibly corporate meddling. 

You see, Valka was supposed to be the villain of How to Train Your Dragon. She wasn't supposed to be "friendly". She was supposed to be  harsh and unforgiving, a threatening force of destruction in the name of dragon-hood. 

This in my opinion would have changed the entirety of the movie (both in therms of quality and in therms of messaging) for the better. 

Out plucky vikings would be confronted with someone who loves dragons way too much. It's always interesting when the antagonist is just a corrupted version of our protagonist. It makes the character confront their personal values and realize that they too can become evil. When the character overcomes their tricks and challenges we see how strong their values actually are, and the character has grown as a result of resisting the temptations. 

Instead we got a generic dreadlock-haired guy who wants to conquer the world. And a mother who abandoned her child but that's okay because she loves dragons. 

Fortunately, we got women who aren't like this, and that's why we got Mother's Day - a useless, corny and overtly consumeristic festivity that nevertheless reminds us that unlike Valka, all the good mothers on our planet aren't such a catastrophic wasted opportunity. 

Mill Stone Revival Chapter VII: Feminism

 

What is Femenism?

Any person that defends women in any way is called a femenist by feminists. 

Feminists defend women through the glasses of feminism. I defend them through other ethical principles. Some feminists will call me a femenist anyway. Others will recognize that our ideological divide is significant and will act accordingly. 

So, what is feminism? The dictionary says: 

"Belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests"

But when I say "feminism" I specifically mean “Any movement that defends women and / or their interests in a questionable or condemnable way. This happens when one or more of the following are present: 

+ erroneous beliefs are used to justify the defense of women (ie., Marxist feminism) 

+ unlawful methods (ie., bombing a city hall so that women can vote) 

+ Pretending to give to women rights that they do not have (ie., abortion, the priesthood) 

How Does Feminism Express Itself In Family Movies? 

I have to be very honest with you: feminism in family movies is a relatively recent phenomenon. In fact, some of the movies that claimed to be femenist were actually hurtful for the movement, because they tried to defend femenist doctrines in a clumsy, preachy and harsh way. This led many into rejecting some forms of feminism.

This doesn't mean that one can't learn feminism from them, or that there aren’t femenist movies that actually pay attention to details and write effective propaganda.

There are 3 main ways in which we can find feminism in this films: 

Be Yourself Feminism is when a femenist message is implemented through a be-yourself plotline 

Brat Feminism is that style of feminism which teaches girls to be mean and selfish. This movies either try to justify this behavior or glorify it.  

Strong Female™ Feminism is when the movie portrays it's females as unstoppable forces of nature, whose only limit is the patriarchy and whose male companions are dumb and slow. 

There's technically nothing wrong with Mary Sue type characters, but  this specific films do this in the name of feminism. 

We also need to distinguish between a movie with feminism and a movie about feminism. 

A movie with feminism is a movie that inserts some feminist ideas in a movie that focuses on other topics. 

A movie about feminism is a movie were the plot revolves around feminist ideas. 

Movie with Feminism: Zootopia, Spider Verse 2 

In Zootropolis, our main character is a female rabbit who wants to be a cop. She is ridiculed because rabbits are weak, but it's not like this doesn't have a feminist undertones.

In Spider Verse 2, we have a pregnant spider woman who rides a motorcycle and hits people. 

Movie About Feminism: Amazon's Cinderella 

Amazon's Cinderella revolves around multiple feminist ideas. For example, Amazon's Cinderella wants to be a powerful entrepreneur in a society where people don't let women sell anything. She's a deconstruction of a classic fairy tale. 

Be Yourself Feminism: Brave (2012)  

First we should have a quick recap about what "Be Yourself" is

"The most prevalent moral that we can find in family movies is what I call the "Self Acceptance" message, or, alternatively, the be yourself message. 

"Be Yourself" is a rather ambiguous frase, but under closer examination I realized that it is a slogan for the following principles:

1: You are perfect just the way you are. Accepting yourself is virtuous. 

2: You shouldn't stop doing what gives you happiness / identity for the sake of others. 

3: Others should accept you just the way you are and you should accept others just the way they are."

Some movies express this message with a character who wants to do something, or belongs to some group (is) that isn't accepted by others. 

In the case of Brave, we are introduced with Princess Mérida. Her definition of "be yourself" would include shooting arrows, riding on her horse and behaving with harsh manners. 

Merida is herself when she does this things, but her mother Queen Elinor expects a different type of daughter - one that follows rules and acts elegantly. This rift between them is increased when it's time to find a suitor to Merida.  

You see, Merida can't be herself because she is a princess and her mother wants her to behave like a normal princess. She is rebelling against patriarchal law. While the movie isn't as obviously feminist as  Barbie (2023), everyone can tell what the writers were thinking. 

Bratt Merida, exhausted by her mother's nagging, throws a massive temper tantrum in public and breaks a family tapestry. Called by weird blue lights, Merida finds a witch, and asks her to "change" her mother. The witch then turns Queen Elinor into a black bear. Awesome daughter, asking random crones to give drugs to mom. 

This totally unexpected transformation allows Queen Elinor and Merida to mend their relationship. The way I see it, Merida realized she was fighting the wrong enemy: the enemy wasn't her mother, but the expectations of society. 

Later, Merida returns home and gives a big speech about how she shouldn't be pressured into marriage. She's learnt from her mother, that she can use soft power (a fairly feminine quality) to get her femenist wishes. 

In the end, as Merida and Queen Elinor forgive each other, their styles of being women - the tomboy and the queen - have been synthesized. This movie wasn't written with hostility towards girly women. Instead it tried to unite them with Tomboys against inconvenient cultural conventions. 

Brat Feminism: Toy Story 4 (2019)

There are a lot of harsh, rude characters in Hollywood. It's not just girls. However, when a movie shows a female character acting with disrespectful, poor manners - and it can be interpreted as an attempt to teach feminism - we have a Brat Femenist Character. 

I think all the characters in this page are bratty to some extent, but Bo-Peep from Toy Story 4 really takes the cake. 

You see, the original trilogy portrays Bo-Peep as a sweet love-interest. She's got a secondary role and was probably too girly for modern Disney. 

In Tou Story 4, Bo-Peep experiences a brutal personality swift. During a flashback scene, she is suddenly a  girl boss who wishes freedom. 

Long story short, Bo-Peep is separated from the classic Toy Story cast. And when she reunites with Woody, she is a condescending girl boss who loves freedom. And she's learned to be mean too! 

The movie wants you to believe Bo Peep and Woody love each other, but the reality is different. She sees him as a clingy, weak ragdoll who is too obsessed with working for his owners. 

She even disrespects him multiple times; she calls him an accessory, doesn't appreciate his ideas, and it's quite clear she considers him a wimpy toy who is often an obstacle. 

Bo-Peep is never told she's wrong and never apologizes for her rudeness, which is ignored by everyone in the movie. 

Woody even leaves the rest of his friends and responsibilities to stay with her. Bo-Peep behaves in a fairly reprehensible way but I guess that's okay because she is independent now. 

Perhaps if Empowered Bo-Peep was a one in a million case, she wouldn't be here... but she's not alone. 

Strong Female™ Feminism: Captain Marvel 

The Strong Female Character™ is a relatively new invention of Hollywood propaganda. She is overpowered, learns all things with extreme speed and sometimes she is just written to excell all her boy counterparts who are often dumbed down to make her look cooler. 

No Female Character™ is written equally. Some are made with more effort than others. You see, the Strong Female™ is often just a way in which lazy / edgy writers pretend to the feminists for the journos to applaud. 

In Captain Marvel, we are introduced to Carol Danvers, a military pilot lady who was captured and brainwashed by the alien race Kree. She fights in their army and believes her powers were given by them through a neck implant. Her teacher Yonn-Rogg says she needs to "keep her emotions in check" to improve her skills. 

But when Danvers returns to earth, she learns the truth. Her powers come from an explosion she caused to save a blue cube from the Kree, who are evil, and killed her mentor and friend Wendy Lawson. Danvers snaps the neck implant and discovers she is more powerful without it - the implant limited her powers. 

In short, Carol Danvers was not stopped by her emotions (a feminine trait), but by evil alien men telling her no. 

During a moment of distress Carol remembers every time she was told "no". She was told "no" when her dad said she shouldn't be in a go-kart competition. When the soldiers laughed at her during military training. When she was not allowed to fly planes. But Carol always stood again. She's a really Strong Female™. 

Danver's male counterparts is Nick Fury, a secret agent that had been previously established in the Marvel Movies. While other Strong Female™ movies humiliate their boys in every possible way, Captain Marvel does it  once. You see, Fury is quite famously lacking an eye. Many fans speculated that he had lost it in a particularly heroic / gruesome way, for Fury uses his mutilation to scare people through the Avengers movies. 

Well, here, in Captain Marvel, we learn Fury lost the eye because he was playing with an alien cat. The scene is treated like a joke as if loosing an eye was a laughing matter. The fans were offended. But Hollywood smirked at them because they are "feminists" and therefore they are good people. 

The Strong Female™ movies follow similar patterns. The guys are either extremely sexist or disrespected. The girls excell at everything they do, and if they fail, it's the guys fault. 

Conclusion 

In order to be delivered from movie feminism, the following would be useful. 

+ Often feminism is the result of a bad relationship with men. Here in Mexico, many guys are seriously disrespectful. They harass women, they act violently towards them and many can't even be present for their children. Is it really a surprise that there are feminists everywhere? 

Therefore, one should NEVER show favoritism towards male children over female children. Boys should be taught to respect women, and there's nothing wrong with that. 

+ Girls should also be taught to place limits on boys, and a healthy self-confidence should be encouraged. 

+ There is also nothing wrong with boys learning to place limits on women. 

+ Some historical knowledge about the origins, doctrines and negative effects of feminism should be given. Make sure to find actual sources & arguments, not propaganda from lazy neo-con sites (like The Daily Wire).