Like I guess there was a real need (?) to critique the gender politics of a female led movie with a female villain but don't ignore >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
>that "go patriarchy" is a completely inserted message even in the film; I doubt many would see it pre Wicked
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I do feel weird if - and to fair, most trans people I meet do know more about the canon than cis folks - but hearing Wicked praised bc queer
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I mean,I'm like the door to door evangelist of "oh you identified with Elphaba for having the same story as Elsa? Lemme show u Ozma"
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But the yellow brick road academic essay is even worse than Wicked because watching the film at least allows you to notice background sexism
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And that hasn't honestly changed much since the film's time, and it does suck that an explicitly feminist book was a slightly less so film
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But focusing on the imagery of gold would be like reviewing ROGUE ONE, noticing the strip mining of Jedha, and saying all Star Wars=anti-oil
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I mean I really have no grounds to claim that, but he was definitely a very loud feminist man who wanted to center women
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I like the really weird off-the-wall shit we learn about the original cast in the very late apocryphal stuff
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The Tin Man, whose original parts have all been replaced with tin, runs into his original biological head and they have a fight
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Over who owns the Nick Chopper identity (his ex girlfriend goes with the head)
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The people of China buried their wisest emperor and a great tree sprouted and its root traveled to the other side of the world
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