I wanted to mention it in my last post about 2012
, but it seemed to be a separate issue and thus I decided to make it a separate post. But I feel like I have to say something about the fact that this movie, which adopts a stance as though it is forward-looking, embracing rational scientific solutions as the best path towards humanity’s future survival (albeit with the necessary funding from the private sector to make it possible).
How, in this day and age, can you make a movie of this sort and still think it is OK that, when decisions are being made, only the men get invited up to the cockpit to see what is going on and discuss what to do? Seriously, what was that about?
I suppose this just shows how ingrained some ways of thinking are, and how challenging it can be to not merely embrace a new way of looking at things in theory, but genuinely implement a new paradigm.
But in a movie that talks about the importance of acting in a way that will give post-apocalypse humanity a positive direction, leaving such sexism taken for granted is a serious shortcoming.
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