{"id":17885,"date":"2019-07-10T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17885"},"modified":"2019-07-24T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:14:41","slug":"lets-talk-re-examining-former-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/07\/10\/lets-talk-re-examining-former-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Talk<\/em>: Re-examining former favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was a time not so long ago when I was blissfully unaware of how poorly female characters were written in a vast majority of movies. I would hear people complain about how there was a serious lack of strong women getting screen time, and, in my lack of being woke, I didn\u2019t seem to see the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to summer 2019\u2014I have spent the last few months in a serious post-school-burnout fog that has led to some epic Netflix binges. In these marathons, I have stumbled onto some of my old favourites. And what I\u2019ve realized is that my wokeness is ruining serious chunks of my cinema go-tos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s Talk?<\/em> is a column exploring women’s rights issues; it’s in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First off, can we have a moment for Ross and Rachel? (Side note: when did his character get so annoying?) Now, I ship these two as hard as the next person who grew up debating if they really were on a break. I swooned when the finale aired and\u201415-year-old spoiler alert\u2014Rachel got off the plane and stayed in New York to be with Ross. Now, as a woke woman, I cringe at the fact that she gave up a dream job and amazing opportunity for a man. Ugh. No, girl. Just no. Go to Paris. Live your best life!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also ruined for me: Speed<\/em>. Recently watched that one again after my Facebook feed being flooded with a resurgence of Keanu popularity in the last month or so. I was super stoked because I remember watching it as a kid and thinking how incredibly badass Sandra Bullock is in that movie. 25-year-old spoiler: she\u2019s entrusted with keeping the bus from blowing up, for goodness\u2019 sake! Well, yeah, not so much. New woke Katy realizes a brick on the gas pedal could basically do her job, except for flirting with and kissing Keanu moments after escaping death. More than once. That\u2019s a job that only the girl he continually saves could do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And do not even get me started on The Office<\/em>. I got halfway through the first season before bailing. Hard. Nope.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember at seven years old thinking Ariel was super hardcore for defying her father and following her dreams. I also very clearly remember the moment I realized that her dream was to give up her family and identity and physically mutilate herself for a guy she met once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I accepted that there were going to be moments like this along the road to wokeness, but what I did not anticipate was how many of my former favourites were going to be ruined in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was going through my DVD collection (yes, I have a DVD collection) a couple nights ago and I came across Sex and the City<\/em>. I really wanted to get lost in the world of these sexually liberated women, but I\u2019m kinda scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if Carrie Bradshaw does something that makes me judge her as hard as I judge Rachel for getting off that plane, I feel my entire teenage viewing years will be destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time not so long ago when I was blissfully unaware of how poorly female characters were written in a vast majority of movies. I would hear people complain about how there was a serious lack of strong women getting screen time, and, in my lack of being woke, I didn\u2019t seem to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-july-10-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t