It’s definitely both
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This is furthest thing from military propaganda. If you act like these idiots do in the Air Force you will be kicked out at the speed of sound.
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Lol what?
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Top Gun was produced with the enthusiastic participation of the US Navy. It might be the single most effective recruitment tool in the history of the Navy. Of course the film is pro-military propaganda, and extremely effective propaganda at that.
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What do you think propaganda means? Cause I said that these character are acting like idiots. That in real life they would've been kicked out for the way they act. They showed pilots being idiots.
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Hahaha that doesn't magically make it not propaganda. In fact, that's part of why it works so effectively as propaganda. The film presents a version of manhood that would appeal to the young male viewers at the time and make them more likely to enlist!
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If this is propaganda then everything is propaganda because there is always a percentage of people moved by something they see. Star Trek was science propaganda, then. And if everything is propaganda then what's the issue?
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Oh my god. It was made with the participation of the navy! It was DESIGNED in part to work as a recruitment tool. If Top Gun is not propaganda, then nothing is.
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I'm amazed that Ebony's a big fan of this movie
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Fun fact: this movie and Tom Cruise are referenced heavily in Neil Strauss' "The Game" as examples of how pick-up artists can be/emulate an alpha male. Take that as you will.
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never took you all as yaoi fangirls. You know just because two guys are in a scene together doesn't make it homoerotic.
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Nah. But I do think you guys are cherry picking feminist propaganda presenting a carefully calculated image of not being cherry picking feminist propaganda.
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All women hate Top Gun with evil white men in the movie
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From my own position as an outsider close(ish) to both cultures..? Prob'ly both. Especially considering how homoerotic military life can be (Just ask
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Feminists are perverts. Not to mention delusional. Could you call it “womansplaining” for feminists to be talking about the life of men in the army? Why yes. Yes they are.
#hypocrites
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What about muh uhbjektifikayshun?
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Wow, women's sexuality isn't even an option.
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Yes because Playing With the Boys is what all women wanna hear.
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