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Oh, I certianly won't argue that the original 300 isn't free of problematic portrayals of masculinity. However, and I'm going to be a bad Barbelither and not have a specific link at hand, Snyder has gone on the record as including transexuals in Xerxes' harem because they creep people out.
I need to find the exact quote.
Even if he hadn't gone on the record regarding that, he also did very clearly use transexuals as part of the language of the grotesque that he build up around Xerxes. It was one of many extremely problematic things he added to flesh out Xerxes being evvvillleee or at least "Other" which for the purposes of 300 is the same thing. And there aren't any in the original book, I checked.
So while I figure Transphobia is part of a whole spectrum of gender-based, race-baced, and possibly political complaints one could make about 300, I think it's still a valid criticism. |
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