{"id":16092,"date":"2019-12-03T03:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16092"},"modified":"2019-12-03T03:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:09:33","slug":"the-wokeness-of-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/12\/03\/the-wokeness-of-james-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wokeness of James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are many stereotypes of the \u201cJames Bond\u201d archetype, best lovingly parodied to most by the \u201cAustin Powers\u201d movies or the \u201cDerek Flint\u201d movies, but few interpretations seem hellbent on making 007 an agent of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-james-bonds-wife-will-refuse-to-take-his-name-phrase-bond-girl-banned-from-set\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wokeness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16085\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971-768x563.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first warning sign was that James Bond\u2019s wife\u2026 wouldn\u2019t take his name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORT: James Bond\u2019s Wife Will Refuse To Take His Name, Phrase \u2018Bond Girl\u2019 Banned From Set <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wrSF6lLg6C\">https:\/\/t.co\/wrSF6lLg6C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nZEqlooZCu\">pic.twitter.com\/nZEqlooZCu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1193971684585267200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It only goes downhill from that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To quote from the idiocy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The women in this film are all strong, brave and fiercely independent. These women are not helpless girls who jump into bed with Bond&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bond Girls were always strong kick-ass women. This is yet another example of people running a franchise they don&#8217;t grok.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Crew members were given reusable water bottles which they filled from taps, saving an estimated 230,000 single-use plastic water bottles&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WTF? Nearly a quarter of a million bottles of water?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Last week, actress Lashana Lynch, who will reportedly make history as the first black woman to play 007, told The Hollywood Reporter that the makers of \u201cNo Time to Die\u201d worked hard to usher James Bond into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MeToo?src=hash\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">#<\/span><strong>MeToo<\/strong><\/a> age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Will xyr be a genderfluid pansexual midget as well? At least dependent on the name=codename that made more sense in the world of Michael Moore\u2019s supposition that. 007 was but \u201cJames Bond\u201d was a code name<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No one complained when M way played by Judi Dench. Why? Because it was still respectful to Ian Fleming&#8217;s characters. This, however, is just &#8220;Wokeness \u00fcber alles&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Lynch even suggested to Waller-Bridge the possibility of a scene in which her character is on her period. &#8216;We had one conversation about her maybe being on her period in one scene, and maybe at the beginning of the scene [\u2026] throwing her tampon in the thing,'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;People don&#8217;t watch James Bond films for the tampons\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16086\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Absolutely-Disgusting-anime-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To summarize the expectation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll have a soy latte, shaken not stirred&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Swann (n\u00e9e Bond)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thankfully, this will be the last James Bond movie&#8230; because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/007-played-black-woman-bond-164900986.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bond is replaced as 007<\/a> by &#8220;a brilliant, young black woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At least they didn&#8217;t turn James Bond into a trans-woman&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pro-tip: If you have to de facto emasculate the male characters for the female characters to be strong and confident leads, then your female characters are *neither* strong nor confident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O! Brave new world&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971.jpg\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971.jpg\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Sean_Connery_1971.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are many stereotypes of the \u201cJames Bond\u201d archetype, best lovingly parodied to most by the \u201cAustin Powers\u201d movies or the \u201cDerek Flint\u201d movies, but few interpretations seem hellbent on making 007 an agent of\u2026 wokeness. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The first warning sign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/12\/03\/the-wokeness-of-james-bond\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16092"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16106,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092\/revisions\/16106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}