Grease is 'racist, rapey, homophobic and
slut-shaming' and should never be shown
on TV again, say woke snowflakes
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Katie Hind
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
1/2/2021 11:47:16 PM
It was one of the highest-grossing films of the 1970s and has been delighting audiences ever since.
But now the hit musical Grease has become the latest target of ‘woke’ critics who have condemned it for racism, sexism, homophobia and ‘slut-shaming’.
Outraged detractors have called for the story of Sandy and Danny’s rollercoaster high-school romance to be cancelled – and never shown on TV again.
When BBC1 screened the movie on Boxing Day, 42 years after its cinema release, youngsters took to social media to label it ‘rapey’ and misogynist for showing how strait-laced Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John, transformed herself into a vamp to bag the man of her dreams...
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jeremiah29_11 1/2/2021 11:52:25 PM (No. 647725)
And your problem is...........????????
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951 1/2/2021 11:57:47 PM (No. 647730)
It must be awful waking up every morning looking for something to be butt hurt over. Great music, some very good dancing and a good time was had by all. The chemistry between John Travolta and Olivia Newton John was electrifying (like my play on words, wink, wink). I did not consider this movie to be the guiding force to my future life choices. They shouldn't either. Asshats all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 1/3/2021 1:01:12 AM (No. 647745)
Besides Olivia Neutron Bomb's slut outfit, which I found gross, my one big objection to the movie was that all the kids in high school tried to act like the cast and repeated every line they could from it. It was sad and embarrassing. Nowadays I kind of enjoy it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Safari Man 1/3/2021 1:15:29 AM (No. 647752)
Gosh, now I want to see it. Never have been interested before.
8 people like this.
Somebody needs to get a life or hobby.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2021 1:34:12 AM (No. 647761)
In other words.....NORMAL.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PageTurner 1/3/2021 4:18:51 AM (No. 647800)
I always disliked the story line about a sweet ingenue who converts herself into a frizzy haired tramp, but the music is great. Saw it on Broadway with Brook Shields, who did a good job.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/3/2021 5:43:02 AM (No. 647819)
We just recorded "Blazing Saddles". I bet the snowflakes will say the same about that movie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/3/2021 7:11:49 AM (No. 647847)
And they intend to replace it with what exactly? Probably woke films about the burning and looting of Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, NYC, etc.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TexasRose 1/3/2021 7:32:30 AM (No. 647859)
Ummm, I thought it was the opposite of slut-shaming.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 1/3/2021 7:45:35 AM (No. 647867)
I'm date-stamping myself, but I saw this movie in the theater with one of my childhood girlfriends when I was 13. That year, EVERY girl in the eighth grade at Benjamin Franklin Middle School sported a pink satin jacket and imagined themselves "Pink Ladies" as a result. IIRC, the fad lasted all of one season, until the next big thing came along. No one was harmed, no one was insulted, no one was threatened or accused of "privilege," and life went merrily on!!
Snowflakes need to get over themselves and their overindulged self importance!! After 2020, people are over it!!!!
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Slut-shaming?!
Did they watch the movie?
The plot is a nice girl becomes a slut and gets her man.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq 1/3/2021 8:23:10 AM (No. 647903)
Never watched it, but have heard a lot of the tunes. Doesn't sound like the plot conveys an uplifting message. Oh well, now we've got Rap music, which rights the keel.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/3/2021 8:49:47 AM (No. 647942)
If the 'woke' crowd doesn't like something, no one can like it. For me, that makes me want to see what they're complaining about even more.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/3/2021 9:15:31 AM (No. 647972)
The ever-vigilant DM quoted fewer than a dozen persons.
My response: “Get a life. Whatever you do’t like on TV, you don’t have to watch. That thing with all the buttons is a remote control for your TV."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
excalgalcg 1/3/2021 9:16:03 AM (No. 647973)
Hey leave one of my favorite films Grease alone. I grew up in that time period and a lot of it was factual especially as this took place in southern CA while I lived in conservative upstate NY. We had gangs and races and high school rivalries and snow! I watch it on tv whenever it comes on writer of article get a life.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/3/2021 9:16:35 AM (No. 647974)
The whole movie was parody.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/3/2021 9:21:57 AM (No. 647984)
Re #16, the irony was that those of us who grew up in Southern California never saw anything remotely like this. We always thought it was a New Yorky kind of thing like “Saturday Night Fever”. Maybe New Jersey? Our high schools were painfully preppy.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/3/2021 9:26:26 AM (No. 647992)
The words used by DMUK to describe Grease may be applied to every movie made in the past ten years except that blacks are the racists, sluts are leading characters and homosexuals are regarded as sacred and normal. In my high school years the preppy cheerleaders always went after the bad boy with the motorcycle so I quickly became a bad boy with a motorcycle but I had principles, I didn't smoke, drink or swear but I wore a black leather jacket.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
excalgalcg 1/3/2021 9:30:36 AM (No. 647996)
#17 no offense but movie was filmed CA. I didn’t mean it was just CA. I still love it no matter where it was filmed. I lived in CA for 33 years and left 16 years ago and never looked back. P. S. I really enjoy your posts.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 1/3/2021 9:33:48 AM (No. 648001)
I’m waiting for the remake where she transforms herself into a boy to get the man of her dreams. Then the woke snowflakes will be happy again.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/3/2021 9:37:44 AM (No. 648005)
Now I understand why we never related to it. Although it was filmed around Los Angeles and Southern California,
Grease takes place in and around Rydell High, which was based in part on Radnor High School in Delaware County, as director Randal Kleiser told the Inquirer in 1998. A 1964 Radnor alum, Kleiser claimed that “a lot of the stuff we put in Grease is sort of based” on the school.
https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/movies/grease-rydell-high-hbo-max-streaming-summer-loving-radnor-high-school-20191017.html
Philadelphia. About as different from Southern California in the 50s (or any other time) as you can imagine.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/3/2021 10:02:41 AM (No. 648030)
Oh, for the love of God, GROW UP! Being offended is a choice.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/3/2021 10:51:26 AM (No. 648078)
Isn't it nice being judged by some man bun dweeb wearing skinny jeans trying to grow an 'apache' beard or an obese green haired tattooed white girl who both don't have lives. Sipping Starbucks coffee and being butt hurt all the time is now way to go through life while living in mother's basement.
I've never seen the movie because I wasn't interested in the campiness of it but to each his own.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
red1066 1/3/2021 11:12:00 AM (No. 648093)
Well snowflakes, it was somewhat like that 55 to 60 years ago, but not exactly like that. Every recreation of a time period by people who were born after that time period can never be exactly like it really was, because they either weren't born yet, or they were too young to remember, and that doesn't even take into consideration of where they grew up. But most of all, one has to remember that the way people generally acted toward each other back then, isn't all that different from the way people generally act toward people today. Yes people today seem to be more rude at times, and without certain manners, but outside of the change in slang, music, clothes and such, people really aren't that different from 60 years ago.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2021 1:01:16 PM (No. 648180)
#8, Blazing Saddles had Cleavon Little doing 'the n word' for laughs, and that will never be done again. Funny movie, though.
Cleavon Little with arms wrapped up and holding the gun on himself...."Nobody moves or the n... dies!", and after the scene is over, "Boy, these folks are really STUPID."
Blazing Saddles will probably never play in public again.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
zoidberg 1/3/2021 8:00:04 PM (No. 648396)
Slut-shaming is a pointless exercise. Everyone knows sluts have no shame.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Melonpatsy 1/3/2021 8:24:48 PM (No. 648404)
When this came out I wasn't allowed to see it due to the "good girl gone bad" theme. I remember being so mad as all of my classmates had. Funny now, or maybe very sad, that the level of morals has fallen so far.
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