What is Wrong with Feminism: The Movie, Part I

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Movie critics want to you why Maleficent, Disney’s 2014 retelling of their classic Sleeping Beauty, is magnificent. “[T]he film surprises,” Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail gushes, “for the thematic richness of its story gloriously personified by Angelina Jolie in the title role.” What’s rich about it? The “feminist revisionist backstory.” What’s wrong with that? Look at how the movie treats its two major male characters, King Stefan and Diaval the raven. Continue reading