[Content Note: Patriarchy; rape culture.]
"What if bros were safe? What if they weren't dangerous, sexist homophobes, but instead tender and kind—both to each other and to the women in their midst? What if packs of jovial, tank-topped 'manly men' weren't something to steer clear of after dark? What if they were polite, considerate and believed God to be a woman? Would they be bros at all?"—The opening paragraph of Stacey May Fowles' review of Magic Mike XXL for the Globe and Mail, a film she describes as "an ingenious revelation of a film—it's designed for women yet steered by all-male leads, tapping into a best guess at women's desires in a self-aware, sincere, entirely deliberate way."
I haven't seen the first Magic Mike movie, and I don't know if I'll ever see this one, but I know a lot of people who love the hell out of these films, and I figured this review might be of interest to y'all lovers of this franchise and maybe to some of those who haven't fallen in love with it. (Yet?!)
[H/T to Jess.]
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