But I’m a Cheerleader

Rating: 80%


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Also Known As:

Make Me Over

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Length:

89 minutes

Review Format:

DVD

Year:

1999

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Predominant Genre:

Comedy

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Outstanding Performance:

Premiss:

A naive teenager is sent to a sexual rehabilitation camp when her parents and friends suspect she is a lesbian.

Themes:

Advertising

Alienation

Atheism

Christianity

Coming-of-age

Compassion

Courage

Curative

Destiny

Emotional repression

Erotophobia

Friendship

Genocide

Guilt

Gynophobia

Identity

Individualism

Justice

Loneliness

Love

Loyalty

Materialism

Narcissism

Nature

Original Sin

Personal

Personal change

Political

Political Correctness

Preventive

Republicanism

Role modeling

Sadomasochism

Schizophrenia

Self-Esteem

Sex

Sexism

Sexual Repression

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

White supremacy

Similar to:

Dirty Shame

Hairspray

Live a Lie - But Don’t Get Caught

Summary: Parents try to cure their daughter of lesbianism, but come-up against human nature.

Amusing movie about how Whites, despite claiming to be the master race, regard civilization as being nothing more than the necessity of fitting-into impossible social pigeonholes, rather than freely being who you actually are.

Many of the characters here realize both that trying to cure people of their so-called sexual perversions (via emotional blackmail) and pretending to be cured (by telling Whites what they want to hear) leads to the realization that they can have no true friends in such a culture because of its fundamentalist rejection of human difference. This leads to the White sexual power-games of “unloading” (White men using women as sperm receptacles) and White women prick-teasing White men in revenge, which is the typical result of the White attempt to prevent their children having sex with other ethnicities, other nationalities and the same gender; meaning Whites are largely-confined to their own ethnicity regardless of actual attraction. This is designed to help prevent Whites freely-choosing their own lovers, reducing or reversing the population growth of Whites by marrying those of their choice, increasing the numbers of undesirables by such marriages and, thereby, to maintain White supremacy.

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Telling people who they should and should not like and how they should and should not behave in public means having to fake enthusiasms to be accepted by people who do not even accept themselves. The presentation of those pretending to be heterosexual is well-realized here and very much to the point as such a stance quickly becomes heterosexism when the impossibility of such an implausible act becomes obvious and the only outlet for the pent-up frustration then becomes openly-hating those who refuse to deny their sexuality in resentment and bitterness.

However, this movie fails to explain these purposes of homophobia (because it is made by Whites who benefit from White supremacy) accept as a form of social control to enable other Whites to know who you are, by discovering if you hate the same people as they do, without then having to do the necessary work to get to actually know you. It also makes White supremacy easier to practice by making Whites appear superior to others by Whites not appearing to be guided by their emotions more than their thoughts - except when such emotional repression is pointed out to Whites who then become more emotional than rational. Such White behavior obviates human spontaneity to create a (false) social stability. It also makes light of the fact that people cut-off from their real selves are easier to physically-control.

Dramatically, the characterization is a little weak (like a screenplay written by a psychiatrist who believes everyone to be neurotic) and it is only the committed acting performances that make many of the characters appear like real people rather than mannequins for the albeit-astute political points the writer wishes to make.

Nevertheless, this film does make clear why Whites are so emotionally-repressed and why, when you meet them, they appear to be acting-a-part rather than genuinely-expressing themselves. This self-repression helps Whites avoid the hard work and commitment necessitated by a real-and-mature passion-for-living. It also explains why Whites are such poor lovers: They are only taught to find their mirror-images attractive and to shun sexual variety. Like many movies criticizing Christianity, this one is an excellent argument for atheism.

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