• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      matrix, hackers, johnny mnemonic, the net it’s because hacking movies of the 90s were unbelievably queer.

      (the net is just there because sandra bullock was everything i wanted to be growing up closeted)

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        1 year ago

        I LOVE The Net. Just rewatched it last year. Now I need to re-rewatch it from a queer lens. 👁👁

        I was clueless to all the queerness in the media I consumed as a kid, so it’s pretty exciting to find a new source. I am curious what stood out to you in these movies as queer.

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          it’s really mostly just because she was basically everything i wanted to be as a closeted trans kid and sapphic kid :) also i literally watch while you were sleeping every christmas because i’m also a hopeless romantic :)

          but also it’s legitimately a great movie from the lens of a woman being her own self and it’s pretty empowering too :)

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      I noticed the rather large venn diagram overlap as early as 2004, and it seems to have held true

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        I came into it quite a bit later, but I’ve noticed a similar thing with programmers, despite the stereotype of “brogrammers” there are some pretty diverse pockets about