My wife's grandmother was watching one such movie recently during a visit.

CW: Emotional abuse.

spoiler

It is about some HOA president (yes, that's how the movie describes him over and over, as a full time job) that keeps showing his romantic interest in the leading feeemale character by fining her and citing her for insufficient holiday decorations and other such "why don't you smile more grillman " abusive shit for the first half of the movie.

The rest is other people in the Black Hole Sun music video worthy town passive-aggressively reminding that feeemale character how the HOA president was looking at her while she scoffs and rejects the abuse... until she doesn't. And that's the happy ending.

Scary shit. It's intersectional: providing what the demographic wants and expects and further normalizing and expanding upon it.

  • FodlegBob [they/them, she/her]
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    7 months ago

    they started using my city to make their non union films that are just as bad as any pureflix atheist youtube film critic bait, sucks they don't get dragged for it enough and everyone pretends they're just cheesy fun shlock instead of being dangerous

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      No one is immune to propaganda and the twee Thomas Kinkade-like glaze over this particular propaganda makes people ignore it while those consuming it are taking in and normalizing some pretty horrifying ideology. Even if that ideology was already there in the consumer, absorbing more of it certainly isn't helping. yea