spoilers and description of transphobia ahead
The scene I’m thinking about is during the prank war on agent Gill, when Zero Cool (Dade) puts an ad in the classifieds with Gill’s home phone number. The ad if I remember correctly, says cross dressers and transvestites welcome, and then the movie cuts to him going through his voicemails which consist of nasty sexual messages. My issue with it is that the only explicit portrayal of queer people is of them sexually harassing someone over the phone as a joke. Also for the misogyny, the party scene at Acid Burn’s place consisted of way too much time ogling the women, and Lord Nikon was made such a creep which wasn’t necessary. Actually come to think of it, they’re supposed to be in high school which means the camera was literally ogling girls from the male gaze. Unfortunately though I’d still have to say that for the time it was a very good movie. Stuff like that seems super common in older movies.
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