I say this as someone who still occasionally pulls up a YouTube video of a supercut of 300 up against the song "Tangerine Speedo" to emphasize the accidental homoeroticism of the movie, just for giggles: it's a graphic novel. Art oversimplifies to make its points, and graphic novels are no stranger to that. Perhaps they are even the best example of doing so.
That it doesn't align with your personal politics at the time is not a crime. It's not even interesting. I can imagine fewer things more boring than someone going over a work with a fine-toothed comb looking for violations of their own personal Hays Code. None of them will turn that level of inspection on their ideological pets, only their "problematic faves."
I dare her: do romance novels next, and do it from a men's rights perspective. I've read my fair share of them, they're all a real crapfest if you want to think of men as actual people instead of living props in the Happily Ever After each heroine is owed. But that doesn't sell clicks on Polygon.
That it doesn't align with your personal politics at the time is not a crime. It's not even interesting. I can imagine fewer things more boring than someone going over a work with a fine-toothed comb looking for violations of their own personal Hays Code. None of them will turn that level of inspection on their ideological pets, only their "problematic faves."
I dare her: do romance novels next, and do it from a men's rights perspective. I've read my fair share of them, they're all a real crapfest if you want to think of men as actual people instead of living props in the Happily Ever After each heroine is owed. But that doesn't sell clicks on Polygon.