Avoid films like The Santa Clause 2, It’s A Wonderful Life, and Die Hard that are more than 15 years old. These movies are sexist nightmares.
The Santa Clause 2 is a tiresome example of pea-brained chauvinism. For those of you who haven’t seen this red-faced frenzy, let me summarize and ruin it for you, lest you find yourself on the brink of watching it (don’t).
The plot of the movie also features a woman trainee learning how to trade places with Santa to fight an animatronic Santa, nor are we going to address it.
15 years later, Santa Clause 2 is still a sexist nightmare. At the end of the film, Scott finally meets Principal Newman after his son damaged school property. She is understandably annoyed that he would take out his phone phone issues on her school. Rather than whisking the child away, she reprimands her student (appropriately) and proceeds to return to teaching with an adorably hovering Charlie attached to one side. Outside the door, Scott makes good by throwing cash on Principal Newman’s desk
Leah Raver-Lefkowitz blogs about her experience as a woman in a sexist society. In her article about The Santa Clause 2, she discusses how her rage turns into pity for both the female teacher and the child.
Neil Patrick Harris, who plays the main character of Santa Claus in \’The Santa Clause 2,\’ perpetuates the blatant sexism seen at the beginning of that movie in this year’s A Series of Unfortunate Events when he played Count Olaf.
Disney still putting ugly glasses on women in trailers
In “The Santa Clause 2”, Carol tells Scott as a child she was lied to by her parents and ever since been unable to feel feelings.
The Santa Clause 2, released when the writer was only 15, has some problematic tropes. Rob Schneider’s character tells his ex-girlfriend about her “mistake” marrying another man, where she is only wasting away in said marriage with her son in tow.
Hollywood gets a lot of things wrong about the nature of women. In “The Santa Clause 2” Carol mistakes snow for snow because it’s only greeted around her and Jack.
After watching The Santa Clause 2, Charlie* might be kicking himself for ever giving up on the woman of his dreams. As successful women, women showed little patience for jerks who spray painted her high school after watching this movie.
The conversation about Elizabeth’s shower scene in the Santa Clause 2 is on-going. This scene harbors a serious problem with sexism, where men are stereotyped as sure to be know-it-alls on the topics of parenting and parenting styles.
The Santa Clause 2 was released 15 years ago, but has recently come under fire for its sexist depiction of the three female characters in the movie.
This leads to the most patronising sections of the movie, where Scott tries guilt-tripping Terry into marrying him by threatening elves would lose their jobs with Christmas be over. This culminates with her agreeing to marry him.
For modern couples, the Santa Claus story is an age-old example of who wears the pants in the family. Scott just wants to enjoy some quality time with his wife when he suddenly transforms into a sexy festive figure with a bigger belly to put presents under. Carol is young, attractive and just dropped approximately 50 pounds to be with her man.
Join the discussion on the latest film, \’The Santa Clause 2\’, where critics are pointing out possible sexist arguments.
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