Special Ops: Lioness
I stopped watching this movie because it’s just bullshit wrapped up as “feminism.”
It’s liberal feminism plus US nationalist and capitalist propaganda.
Femme fatale or using women to invade other countries, neo-colonise them and steal their resources under the guise of “protecting” those countries is nonsense.
The US can’t even save itself, yet that country ALWAYS paints itself as the saviour of the world in movies.
And note the usual annoying “you can be a mother and be everything else you want to be, including being a badass soldier that kills for your country.
It reminds me of some idiots who ask women to prove we deserve equality by also going to war. Humans can be amazingly stupid sometimes y’know.
Why should wars be happening in the first place?
Not only are you unreasonable enough to not condemn it, you’re asking women to go to wars to “prove” we deserve equality.
Who the hell are you for a group of people to “prove” to you that they deserve whatever respect and resources everyone else deserves?
Also, the question we should ask is why is motherhood always sold to women as a must-have constant k in their lives?
It’s a version of “chase the kingdom of god and every other thing shall be added unto you.”
Not every woman has to be a mother.
And the idea that you can be a mother and still be everything else in life is an illusion, a lie. You can NEVER reach your full potentials while being a mum. If it looks like it, it means you could have been ten times greater than who you are while being a mother.
You practically start living for another person; your time, your energy, your resources, your mental health, everything, becomes about another person.
And it’s just one in a million women that manages to still get it together even after having children.
For one woman you see who’s lucky to be a mother and “have everything else”, there are millions of others who are not lucky and struggle alongside their children.
But they keep selling this unrealistic idea to us all. If it was indeed true, it doesn’t need to be sold to women at all. We’d readily have kids and go take over the world while at it.
The movie also tried selling the idea that men readily want to take care of their children alongside the mothers. The father, who’s also a surgeon, takes care of the children while the wife goes about “protecting” and “saving” other countries.
In reality, this is not usually the case. Patriarchy has made childbirth and raising children women’s natural duties so much so that any man who partakes in taking care of his own children is praised and given accolades, thought of to be “helping” the mother or even labelled a simp.
And even in this make-believe world, the idea of being a surgeon, or a soldier or whatever way you have chosen to be a capitalist slave in the rat race, getting screwed/maxed out by capitalism, while having other lives solely depend on you, AND expected to be sane and happy and fulfilled while doing all these IS exhausting!
Instead of making raising the next workers of capitalism a national duty, you make it women’s duties while giving them empty praises and accolades.
“Kai, women are so strong.”
Will you shut up there!
It’s only when patriarchy wants to exploit women that we are called strong.
Are men weak?
Why is fatherhood not constantly sold to men too?
Why should it be just women’s duties?
Why are men not constantly told “you can be a father while having everything else added unto you?”
Teacher don’t teach me nonsense!
Written by Sisí Afrika.
