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You\'re still treating Nancy like she\'s a real person and not a fictional character who was written to spout a sexist line to make a male character feel better about himself, when she could have been written to say something that wasn\'t \
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You\\\'re still treating Nancy like she\\\'s a real person and not a fictional character who was written to spout a sexist line to make a male character feel better about himself, when she could have been written to say something that wasn\\\'t \\\"girls are dumb\\\". {{Narm}} isn\\\'t negated by something trying to justify itself in-universe. Of course the Mean Girl character was pointlessly dickish about it. She was written that way deliberately to compliment Nancy\\\'s line about girls. A lot of old media tries to justify its treatment of female characters by writing them to be unsympathetic. Sexism isn\\\'t okay just because a girl is being mean.
But the point of the entry is not to say: \\\"Sexism is bad.\\\" (which is obvious). It\\\'s \\\"I can\\\'t believe this show insists on playing every bad cliché from an 80s movie completely straight without any self-awareness.\\\" (the sexism being one of said clichés) The show being a tribute to those movies doesn\\\'t automatically negate that.
But the point of the entry is not to say: \\\"Sexism is bad.\\\" (which is obvious). It\\\'s \\\"I can\\\'t believe this show insists on playing every bad cliché from an 80s movie completely straight without any self-awareness.\\\" (the sexism being one of said clichés) The show being a tribute to those movies doesn\\\'t automatically negate that.
