Science Fiction Needs To Do Better

A 1-post collection

I just saw a SciFi film called "The Machine"

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  • Three, technically four ladies on the screen and not once do they exchange a single line

  • ONE character who’s POC, and he’s represented as unsympathetic!evil and still white enough to keep the cast relatively homogenous

  • No brown people, just in case I didn’t make it obvious

  • HEAVY infantalisation of the main lady

  • Mixed with equally heavy sexualisation [euw]

  • Including a scene that made my skin crawl from the pedo/rapey overtones

  • Not one, but two cases of lady!fridging to motivate the men

  • Aaaaannnnnd ablism on the side.

Yuck. Do not see this movie if you abhor any of the above.