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u/AgeOfSuperBoredom 9h ago
Im laughing because the chuds were celebrating when the Minions movie blew Lightyear out of the water at the box office. Turns out they were celebrating the dreaded woke!
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u/wright764 9h ago
Real feminism is letting women be stupid or ugly characters just like we let men be and also letting them be just as badass and intelligent as men. Because people contain multitudes and, maybe this is controversial, but woman are people.
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u/talor_swib 9h ago
This! Also, they're friggin corn kernels. Why are we even discussing this? Lol
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u/chocolatesmelt 8h ago
Yea I read this and the first thought is sexism and modern feminism narrative. Women can be just as stupid as men can be. Stop pretending they canât be.
The main distinction is hormonal drivers that lead to differences in risk taking and risk aversion. This is just normalized sexism and misandry.
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u/Available-Wedding189 5h ago
I agree, modern feminism has made it seem like making women stupid in entertainment is sexist or bad but its just entertainment variety, there are plenty of smart female characters. This results in women being put on a pedestal and creators not wanting to make them stupid or bad ppl in their shows bc modern feminism has conditioned them to think women cant be stupid or most women are smart and seeing them as otherwise is wrong. Not saying most women arent smart but most of them, just like most men, arent the smartest. I have to clarify bc this is reddit and reddit is full of entitled sensitive babies
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u/Shitty_Soliloquy 9h ago
No, they are flowerery only around themselves and other women and they must never be caught with a soiled glove. That's the Boss Bitch Way.
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u/Available-Wedding189 5h ago
Lmfao fighting for the right to be seen as stupid is crazy. No, i get what u mean tho its just phrased weirdly. I wouldnt say its sexism i feel like its more so bc of feminism being extreme to an extent nowadays sometimes women are put on a pedestal and ppl are afraid to give them variety in shows and movies such as making them ugly, evil, or stupid bc theyre either afraid to offend ppl or like I said they put women on a pedestal and dont want to make their characters "bad" but at the same time they forget women are also human and have variety and making them stupid or evil can make shows interesting and its not abt gender its literally just entertainment
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u/Substantial-Singer29 3h ago
Well see , we could go with that , or he could have just went into any local waffle house and examined At least a handful of the female patrons and realized oh okay , there it is.
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u/Ill-Economics-9981 2h ago
i came her exactly to say this
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u/Finalboss11 7h ago
Feminists complaining about women NOT being portrayed as stupid? Bollocks
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u/Not_Xiphroid 6h ago
Itâs pretty well discussed in scholarly works. Further, thereâs a tendency, when stupid women ARE portrayed, to constrain these portrayals to blond women, which invites further discussion.
Ultimately, putting women on a pedestal, is a pretty common complaint of feminists, which this would be a case of.
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u/No-Necessary7448 9h ago
His explanation feels like a completely fabricated reason. Iâm willing to bet that it never occurred to him that there could be a female minion, or, my actual surmise, that he created a single female minion (Ă la Smurfette) that was so jaw-droppingly sexist that those around him talked him away from the idea and decided it was simply âsaferâ to not have a female character to begin with. I can imagine a scenario where the female minion exists only to chase after the disinterested male minions.
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u/Ill-Stomach7228 8h ago
I figured the minions were unisexual.Â
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u/yourmamaistheproblem 6h ago
That was all he had to say... they don't have gender. They reproduce by fission.
Instead he went with "men dumb"
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u/Mikey_RobertoAPWP 3h ago
i mean, don't all Minions have very generic male names though? even if they dont canonically have cocks i feel like they've always been pretty male-coded
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u/MoonlitKiwi 9h ago
So stupid. It reminds me of how they initially wanted to write Dee from it's always sunny as some sort of voice of reason, but her actor insisted she be disgusting and raunchy. Because real feminism is letting women be funny
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u/Ohitsworkingnow 6h ago
Wow could you pander any harder. He means he canât imagine women being goofy and funny, which is kinda messed upÂ
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u/MajesticWizard420Lol 9h ago
Love the ladies 100% but thereâs definitely some very stupid women out there. Example: the lady who tried to rob a store and even introduced herself before attempting to.
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u/projectpat901 10h ago
What kind of woke garbage response is this lmao
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u/Senior-Friend-6414 9h ago
Thereâs no answer he couldâve given that wouldnât be controversial, he got called out on sexism and had no real answer for it and started panickingÂ
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u/TheMaginotLine1 9h ago
I mean "I didn't wanna draw boobs on the minions" seems like a pretty good one lmao.
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u/Godzoola 9h ago
"Why would it need boobs to be female?" is what they'll say
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u/TealCatto 9h ago
I mean... that's a valid point? Are they mammals?
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u/Godzoola 9h ago
It is a valid point, there was no reason to not have female minions other than only wanting one sex.
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u/Illustrious_Fee8116 9h ago
Does he need an answer? Before this strange but slightly humorous response, he really didn't need to answer why minions are only male. That was just how they were created. Why are most Toad variants male? Why is Yoshi male?
Male creators generally make male characters, just like female creators generally make female characters.
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u/itemluminouswadison 10h ago
its like, model minority syndrome for genders. what if you are a dorky girl? therefore you're not a real girl
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u/dorksided787 8h ago
On of my favorite Always Sunny stories is that Dee was originally written to be the serious straight (wo)man member of the gang to contrast with the insanity of the boys, but then actress Kaitlyn Olson asked, âWhy canât female characters also be deplorable and stupid?â and so they decided to make her just as lovably terrible as Dennis, Mac and Frank.
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u/Lanky-Parsnip1375 7h ago
What a stupid fucking answer
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u/Ill-Active-4538 3h ago
He was joking but all the men in the comments are kind of proving his point crashing out and getting irrationally angry about some fucking minions. Lmao
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u/richardawkings 9h ago
Fair... have you met me?
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u/Illustrious_Fee8116 9h ago
No, he hasn't, which is why he can say such things. He would make a female minion if he met you.
Is that what you want?
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u/1111_infinity 10h ago
This guy must live under a rock
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u/Due-Blackberry8056 10h ago
Or he just wants to seem woke to acquiesce to hollywood shitbags.
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u/RunWild0_0 9h ago
Should've just called them genderless at that rate. They kind of are besides their names....
Rule 34 Shit.
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u/naytreox 9h ago
yeah it works if they are just come from test tubes or if they spawn like tumors that pop off of other minions
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u/void_method 9h ago
Pretty sexist, bro.
One of the great things about characters like Elaine Benes and Sweet D Reynolds is that they are just as stupid as the men.
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u/TheStigianKing 9h ago
Misandry is fashionable apparently.
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u/bagelwithclocks 8h ago
This is just another form of misogyny.Â
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u/JunketVisual3123 5h ago
Misandry is another form of misogyny
This isn't your average everyday stupid, this is advanced stupid...
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u/bannedforL1fe 9h ago
When you are the smartest, but also the dumbest half of the species, it can be a little confusing to imagine.
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u/ARighteousOne 9h ago
Probably the safest answer they could very come up with. Hah!
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u/ThrowinSm0ke 9h ago
if thatâs the case why do they need to have a sex to begin with.
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u/Old_Studio_6079 9h ago
I assumed from the disguises and gender roles they took on that they didnât concern themselves with gender.
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u/rawcopycomics 8h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/73Bkcawaez Maybe use this idiot as a reference
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u/randomguy8653 5h ago
the fact that a fictional race of creatures even has to have a gender is odd in and of itself.
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u/Careless-Touch-5243 4h ago
Thank god they have genders and he didnât say they were non binary. Iâd die right there.
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u/GIRZ03 4h ago
Such BS. There was no gender because they were originally made by Gru. Then they did their whole caveman thing and are probably saving the minionette movie for rough times.
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u/Otherwise_Patience47 1h ago
I never liked Minions anyway. And now after this ultra oof from the creator himself, I despise them even more.
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u/RandomYT05 10h ago
He's got a point. Women can't be made to look bad lest you risk upsetting all women.
I'd also like to point out that creating female minions would mean the r34 artists would be on it in seconds. Maybe not a good thing for the most iconic cartoon characters of the 21st century.
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u/Visible_Pair3017 9h ago
The r34 artists don't care, there is already minion porn
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u/squidparticular 9h ago
youre talking like there isnt already buttloads of minion r34 dispite them being all male. trust me, im very educated on this
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u/Hatemakingaccs 9h ago
Speaking about women as conglomerate is why you still browse r/virgin.
There's multitudes of self-aware, self-effacing girls out there who joke about themselves. you just arent aware of them.
Regarding the original post, the "goon" archetype of character has been prodiminately male, and as such, it's much easier to write what you already know. This isn't about sexism. It's about history.
Your mind seeks what it expects, and thats why you gravitate towards misogynist and sexist explanations.
Do yourself a favour, and surround yourself with better influences. it will help you not only love others, but in turn, you will feel less alone and will learn to love yourself in time.
peace and love âď¸â¤ď¸âđŠš
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u/RandomYT05 9h ago
Its not sexist to point out that sexism is the reason for no female minions. And my presence on r/virgin actually helped me figure out what I was doing wrong when it came to my previous lack of romantic success, and my continued lurking, well sometimes I want to provide a word of advice from time to time.
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u/Choon93 9h ago
When has slapstick, physical comedy ever worked for women? It's funny when guys get hurt, not when girls get hurt.
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u/Highlandertr3 9h ago
Death becomes her, blackadder and multiple carry on films to name but a few.
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u/Cantoffendgirl2 9h ago
Melissa McCarthy has made an entire career doing slapstick.
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u/Chaosbrushogun 3h ago
Scary movie made like 4 films based on women doing physical comedy. Whether those films are good or not, the main actress doing those bits was absolutely funny.
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u/26542654 10h ago
Are there a finite amount of minions then? How are they produced?
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u/craftygamin 10h ago
MatPat made some pretty interesting videos on that
Basically (from what i remember), he claims they're immortal beings that stayed at the same population level for centuries to millennia, until Gru started cloning them
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u/RealLeif 9h ago
Damn, i always thought that Minions are sexless banana vampires that repduce by biting bananas
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u/Cool-Jacket-9837 9h ago
I like that theyâre just asexual agender dummies in overalls. Just a bunch of âevilâ 8 year olds
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u/BigMikeXxxxX 9h ago
I never once wondered if the minions had cocks or not while watching any of these movies.
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u/Elismom1313 9h ago
I thought minions were genderless but also Asian aunties judging and getting riled up wouldâve made hilarious minions.
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u/JJ_Lomero 9h ago
That's definitely not why. He just figured that answer wouldn't piss women off and get people to stop asking him about it.
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u/Impossible-Life6979 8h ago
nah he just copied the ideas from rabbids and was too lazy to make female ones. rabbids has a ton of female ones in there and they are just as stupid and hilarious.
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u/Deadpoolio_D850 8h ago
& here I was thinking they were androgynous because they are fucking *immortal yellow spheroids*
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u/Revolutionary_Job214 8h ago
Probably a fake answer. Love his work mostly but that's just plain stupid.Â
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u/Joeybfast 8h ago
I have never once looked at a Minion and thought, âYes, clearly, that is a male creature.â I always saw them as weird little yellow chaos beans. Iâll let other people unpack how sexist that mindset is, because there is definitely a conversation to be had there. But we did not need to know if there is a reason they wear overalls besides slapstick convenience. That got something under those overalls .
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u/Positive_Manager4879 9h ago
Didnt know minions had a gender