In wokelandia, girlboss Cinderella obliterates the patriarchy by choosing her career over love, and the flaccid prince lets his sister take the throne. Why? Because women can have it all and men – obviously – are utterly useless.
Amazon Studios’ new movie ‘Cinderella’, written and directed by Kay Cannon, is a jukebox musical that sets out to upend the old-fashioned fairytale by injecting a powerful dose of girl power into its traditionalist veins.
Starring pop singer Camilla Cabello, this woke re-telling – now streaming on Amazon Prime – might have been considered ideologically edgy in 1956, but is a bland, flat concoction that looks as unappealing as it sounds.
To promote the new movie, cast members Cabello, Idina Menzel, Billy Porter and James Corden (also a producer of the film) recently got into costume and did a flash mob at various Los Angeles intersections where they sang the grating Jennifer Lopez hit ‘Let’s Get Loud’.
After having seen a video of this occurrence, which included Corden sexually thrusting his hips in a mouse costume, I’ve been, like Winston Smith, haunted by rodent-filled nightmares.
Putting the Cinderella story through the woke wash cycle seems like a painfully typical-for-the-times, Disney Channel-inspired, algorithm-assisted experience. The plot they came up with was that the new Cinderella is a fashion designer who, along with all the other women in the kingdom, is suffering under the patriarchy and its sexist traditions.
As everyone knows, Cinderella is supposed to marry the prince, but in this new wokelandia, she instead literally says, “I choose me!” and decides on her blossoming fashion design career over love. You see, this Cinderella doesn’t want to be confined to the basement or the Royal box. She wants to toss the glass slipper and shatter the glass ceiling. You go, girl!
Of course, Cinderella ultimately gets to have both her career and love when Prince Robert, played by Nicholas Galitzine, who – how do I put this? – doesn’t exactly seem like the type of guy who is into the ladies, and gives up his b*****ks, oops, I mean his claim to the crown, and follows Cinderella in her fashion career.
You’ll be glad to know that Prince Robert’s sister, Gwen, an ambitious Hillary Clinton type bursting with so many great ideas that none of the men ever listen to, becomes ruler of the kingdom. Girl Power!
If that all sounds really egregiously dreadful to you, then you are not alone. The problem with ‘Cinderella’ isn’t just the relentless girlboss bullsh*t, it’s also the fact that the movie looks and feels like a bunch of 10-year-olds lip-synching to the radio as they put on a play in their grandmother’s backyard.
It also has a virtually incoherent script, is amateurishly directed, embarrassingly choreographed and abysmally acted. But besides that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
A big problem with the film is that its lead, Cabello, is an unappealing and unattractive screen presence who seems less a fairy princess in waiting than a rookie waitress stumbling through her maiden shift at a renaissance fair.
The first 45 minutes of the movie are run-of-the-mill garbage, but then the awfulness goes into hyper-drive when the king of crap arrives, Corden, who in an uncomfortable bit of typecasting plays an annoying fat mouse.
To add insult to injury, at about the same time Porter (acclaimed star of ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Pose’) brings his gay minstrel show to the festivities in the form of the character Fab G, who is described in the film’s promotional material as a “genderless fairy godparent”. Fab G is, you guessed it, “FABULOUS!”, but unfortunately is not genderless, as she describes herself as a “fairy godmother” in the film, which horrified me no end as it seems aggressively binary. Cancel ‘Cinderella’ for its binary conformism and trans-hate!
As for the rest of the cast, Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver play the king and queen and their work seems to embody the attitude that ‘the mortgage ain’t gonna pay for itself’, which as we all know, it isn’t.
Menzel plays the wicked stepmother, but thankfully she isn’t really wicked, because women aren’t capable of being bad in wokelandia as they have no agency. Instead, the wicked stepmother is just a misunderstood victim of the patriarchy.
The music in ‘Cinderella’, which features songs from Janet Jackson, Queen, Madonna and Ed Sheeran among many others, falls decidedly flat because the performances are dull and the arrangements so predictable they seem to be done by a second-grade music teacher.
I understand this is the world we live in, and we have to suffer through these uber-woke movies and TV shows that only care about ‘the message’ and not the quality of the product or its entertainment value. But this feminist monstrosity is beyond the pale.
It astounds me that in our already hyper-feminized-to-the-point-of-absurdity culture – which denigrates men at every turn and intentionally conflates true masculinity with toxic masculinity – that Hollywood still feels the need to so aggressively indoctrinate young girls and boys into this rancid woke nonsense.
We’ve become a vapid and vacuous nation of clowns, cuckolds and eunuchs, and Amazon Studios, Corden, Porter and the awful new ‘Cinderella’ are a sign of how far and how fast we’ve fallen.
20 states sue Biden administration over LGBT discrimination policies for schools and employers
(Christian Today) Twenty states are suing the Biden administration for implementing expanded LGBT nondiscrimination provisions that the plaintiffs believe run afoul of federal law as well as U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
A lawsuit was filed by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, a Republican, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee Knoxville Division Monday.
The Republican attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia also signed onto the lawsuit as plaintiffs.
Defendants in the case are the U.S. Department of Education, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows, the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke.
“This case is about two federal agencies changing law, which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative,” Slatery said in a statement. “The agencies simply do not have that authority.”
The plaintiffs allege that policies implemented by the Biden administration have caused “irreparable harm” by threatening to withhold federal funding if they do not comply with the new directives.
The policies at issue stem from an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office asserting that “the Title IX Education Amendments of 1972,” originally designed to prevent discrimination based on sex in education, also prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Additionally, the lawsuit challenges the Department of Education’s announcement that it will “fully enforce Title IX to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in education programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department.”
As detailed in the lawsuit, the Department sent a “dear educator” letter to Title IX recipient schools across the nation notifying them of the new interpretation of federal civil rights law. A fact sheet accompanied the letter.
The lawsuit expressed particular concern about the portion of the fact sheet alleging that preventing a trans-identified male from using the women’s restroom and preventing a trans-identified male from trying out for girls’ cheerleading constitutes sex discrimination.
The EEOC compiled a similar technical assistance document, illustrating examples of what constitutes discrimination based on the executive branch’s interpretation of federal civil rights law.
The document maintains that “prohibiting a transgender person from dressing or presenting consistent with that person’s gender identity would constitute sex discrimination.”
Acknowledging that employers “have the right to have separate, sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, or showers for men and women,” the commission’s position is that “employers may not deny an employee equal access to a bathroom, locker room, or shower that corresponds to the employee’s gender identity.”
The EEOC document states that “If an employer has separate bathrooms, locker rooms, or showers for men and women, all men (including transgender men) should be allowed to use the men’s facilities and all women (including transgender women) should be allowed to use the women’s facilities.”
The EEOC characterized the use of “pronouns or names that are inconsistent with an individual’s gender identity” as an example of harassment.
The Biden administration repeatedly cited the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County to justify its policies. In Bostock, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that firing a gay or transgender employee because of their sexual orientation or gender identity violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Slatery accused the agencies of misconstruing Bostock “by claiming its prohibition of discrimination applies to locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms under Title IX and Title VII when the Supreme Court explicitly said it was not deciding those issues in Bostock.”
The lawsuit also contends that the agencies violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
“The Administrative Procedure Act requires agencies to engage in ‘notice and comment’ for legislative rules,” the lawsuit noted. “The Department’s Interpretation and the Fact Sheet are legislative rules because they ‘intend[] to create new laws, rights, or duties’ and thus should have been subject to notice and comment.”
The lawsuit concluded that “because the Interpretation and Fact Sheet are legislative rules that were adopted without the required notice-and-comment procedures, they are unlawful and should be ‘set aside.'”
The legal complaint also described the actions of the agencies as “arbitrary and capricious” and alleges that the executive branch’s policies violated the First and 10th Amendments and exceed statutory authority.
This lawsuit is not the first attempt by this group of state law enforcement officials to challenge the policies.
In July, the group of 20 attorneys general who filed the lawsuit, along with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sent a letter to Biden expressing concern about the “administrative action related to Bostock v. Clayton County.”