Review: The L Word
The L word is a series about lesbianism in los angelas (which is the real l). It's plot centers unsurprisingly on sex and being closted or out of the closet.
Positive aspects: features wimmin training to use martial arts to defend their bodies
portrays wimmin as healthy and strong. portrays gay sex as an acceptable lifestyle. The show also clearly treated all races as equal which is liberalism but progress relative to the ambient racism.
Negative aspects: 1) unquestionining acceptance of the Amerikan Empire's leading role in world "culture" via hollywierd. 2) Pushes subreformism about bourgeois liberal individualist privacy rights and the "right" of queer's to serve in imperialist institutions of oppression such as the military (gays in the military / don't ask don't tell) and hollywierd. 3) Pushing straight fantasies about lesbians -- guys figure it out lesbians are NOT secretly yearning for cock. Your Minister has *no* idea why heterosexual patriarchal imperialism has wild eyed heterosexual fetishes about lesbians. Is it just a pure power play, the dominance of the dominant culture at it's horniest or what? I've no idea, it makes no logical sense for straight guys to get all hot for lesbians, it's like their hitting their heads against the wall.
Technically, some of the 'drama' in the series is obviously that, pointless 'drama', situations that just don't and wouldn't happen in real life. Whether presenting 'drama' generates the drama or serves as an object lesson in avoiding the drama is an important subtle question. Here the party should definitely give artists the benefit of the doubt, to see the 'drama' is presented as an object lesson so that inexperienced comrades can be given a chance to foresee the bad effects of bad actions. So the party will insist that pointless 'drama' conflicts be succesfully resolved and not used as 'cliffhangers' to string the audience along from episode to episode. The string-along-cliffhanger method of bourgeois art will be eschewed in practice by Maoists because we have some very important things to say and so unlike teasing imperialists we actually want our audience to 'get it'. This is just one reason Maoist education is always and everywhere more effective than capitalist rationing of freely available information a-la-friedman.
Neutral points: doesn't push gay life as either "a free choice" (liberalism) or "instinct" (authoritarian biological determinsm). The better view from Marxism is that sex is a choice; even liberal freudians would argue that sexuality is "polymorphously perverse". Though, one does tend to see "manly women" and "womenly men" at queer bars how much of that is really biological versus dress and style? Dress a bulldyke up in a dress and makeup and voila so much for biological determinism. So the series is silent here but we would actually argue against bio determinism since we're not racists.
This show would not be banned by the JDOP but would get subtitles and edited to get rid of the useless subreformism and pointless imping for imperialist militarism. Queers should be bright enough to figure out that they don't belong in the imperialist death cult and queer's that don't should get outed systematically by the party in order to undermine the enemy force. That would undermine the enemy army's strength, show solidarity to the Third World and would be more effective at getting the public to accept queers in the first world.
Positive aspects: features wimmin training to use martial arts to defend their bodies
portrays wimmin as healthy and strong. portrays gay sex as an acceptable lifestyle. The show also clearly treated all races as equal which is liberalism but progress relative to the ambient racism.
Negative aspects: 1) unquestionining acceptance of the Amerikan Empire's leading role in world "culture" via hollywierd. 2) Pushes subreformism about bourgeois liberal individualist privacy rights and the "right" of queer's to serve in imperialist institutions of oppression such as the military (gays in the military / don't ask don't tell) and hollywierd. 3) Pushing straight fantasies about lesbians -- guys figure it out lesbians are NOT secretly yearning for cock. Your Minister has *no* idea why heterosexual patriarchal imperialism has wild eyed heterosexual fetishes about lesbians. Is it just a pure power play, the dominance of the dominant culture at it's horniest or what? I've no idea, it makes no logical sense for straight guys to get all hot for lesbians, it's like their hitting their heads against the wall.
Technically, some of the 'drama' in the series is obviously that, pointless 'drama', situations that just don't and wouldn't happen in real life. Whether presenting 'drama' generates the drama or serves as an object lesson in avoiding the drama is an important subtle question. Here the party should definitely give artists the benefit of the doubt, to see the 'drama' is presented as an object lesson so that inexperienced comrades can be given a chance to foresee the bad effects of bad actions. So the party will insist that pointless 'drama' conflicts be succesfully resolved and not used as 'cliffhangers' to string the audience along from episode to episode. The string-along-cliffhanger method of bourgeois art will be eschewed in practice by Maoists because we have some very important things to say and so unlike teasing imperialists we actually want our audience to 'get it'. This is just one reason Maoist education is always and everywhere more effective than capitalist rationing of freely available information a-la-friedman.
Neutral points: doesn't push gay life as either "a free choice" (liberalism) or "instinct" (authoritarian biological determinsm). The better view from Marxism is that sex is a choice; even liberal freudians would argue that sexuality is "polymorphously perverse". Though, one does tend to see "manly women" and "womenly men" at queer bars how much of that is really biological versus dress and style? Dress a bulldyke up in a dress and makeup and voila so much for biological determinism. So the series is silent here but we would actually argue against bio determinism since we're not racists.
This show would not be banned by the JDOP but would get subtitles and edited to get rid of the useless subreformism and pointless imping for imperialist militarism. Queers should be bright enough to figure out that they don't belong in the imperialist death cult and queer's that don't should get outed systematically by the party in order to undermine the enemy force. That would undermine the enemy army's strength, show solidarity to the Third World and would be more effective at getting the public to accept queers in the first world.
posted by Maoist Internationalist Movement at 11:02 PM
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