# Misogyny and pop culture: don't yuck my yum! (Spoilers for the movie Poor Things) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107 "2024-02-04T22:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/181 "2024-02-05T20:38:37Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I bet you can find lots of images of women wearing crosses. Yes, in the category of “search results that have nothing to do with what I actually searched for”, I did get hits of women _wearing_ a cross. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/182 "2024-02-05T20:41:00Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > In what actually IS a shocking display of misogyny, I am having a real hard time finding a picture of a woman carrying a cross. You use AI, you can make your own. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/Px3FZct4/8fa47647-b98b-4186-adf8-db7df323a106.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/Px3FZct4/8fa47647-b98b-4186-adf8-db7df323a106.jpg) And here’s a woman with a cross to bear. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/C5Rr4N5V/fb06be30-c1a4-4346-8b97-5e0b3d19470b.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/C5Rr4N5V/fb06be30-c1a4-4346-8b97-5e0b3d19470b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/183 "2024-02-05T20:41:38Z")
I find it fascinating that Christianity envisions God as being exclusively male. I suspect that’s why Mary gets so much play in Christian art. And this is the pit, so i suppose we can go down that rabbit hole. But it it’s getting pretty far afield of the topic. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/184 "2024-02-05T20:42:08Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And here’s a woman with a cross to bear. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/185 "2024-02-05T20:43:11Z")
We get the weirdest door-to-door missionaries around here. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/186 "2024-02-05T20:45:17Z")
She’s in the alternate gospel where the centurion on Golgatha is a Vietnamese woman. She couldn’t possibly allow anyone else to do her nails ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/187 "2024-02-05T20:45:31Z")
“Join our religion and you get a tame bear” might make me reconsider my atheism… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/188 "2024-02-05T20:50:39Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > “Join our religion and you get a tame bear” might make me reconsider my atheism…. Judaism did it first: > [@](#): > > From there he went up to Bethel. As he was going up the road, some little boys came out of the town and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!” > > He turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the name of GOD. Thereupon, two she-bears came out of the woods and mangled forty-two of the children. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/189 "2024-02-05T20:52:23Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And here’s a woman with a cross to bear. Maybe do a “woman carrying cross with white knight on steed” image, there will be one along in a minute. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/190 "2024-02-05T20:55:49Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Telling me I’m a geezer, a granny, a little woman who should keep my mouth shut, cause oh, tsk tsk hon, you just don’t understand. Not the fuck what I said. Your gransplaining is the part where you tell young women who think porn can be positive that they’ll eventually grow up and realize how wrong they are. That’s astonishingly condescending of you, and it’s based on age, and it’s the sort of obnoxious shit you engage in _all the fucking time_. You vacillate between “look at my folksy old wisdom” and “oh no well I guess I’m not wanted and I’ll go shut up,” and it’s so tiresome. “Gransplaining” is a pretty decent word for the sort of ignorant holier-than-thou nonsense that older people engage in when they’re convinced not only that they’re right, but that younger adults just don’t have the wisdom yet to realize how their elders are right. [![](https://us-a.tapas.io/c/f1/20/ed/c7/810c01af99214f56ab9b78516c45b428.jpg) ](https://us-a.tapas.io/c/f1/20/ed/c7/810c01af99214f56ab9b78516c45b428.jpg) Edit: I have no opinion on the movie yet. I’ll probably see it soon with my wife and 15yo daughter, as long as the cringe factor on the latter isn’t too great. We saw Everything Everywhere All at Once in the theater, butt plugs and all, but sat in separate parts of the theater. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/191 "2024-02-05T21:01:30Z")
Can you do Alanis Morrissette with a cross-eyed bear? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/192 "2024-02-05T21:03:05Z")
I did a google image search of your question and this was the first result: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/35/06/82/350682fef245915aef337d4288b55f31.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/35/06/82/350682fef245915aef337d4288b55f31.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/193 "2024-02-05T21:08:58Z")
I suspect I’m younger than you. Don’t gransplain to me. I’ve raised 4 well adjusted young people. Of course my opinion matters to them. I am older than they are. I lived and learned. And they will too. With my opinion blaring in their heads. It’s called teaching. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/194 "2024-02-05T21:09:08Z")
Thanks, that’s pretty good, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/195 "2024-02-05T21:13:56Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Edit: I have no opinion on the movie yet. I’ll probably see it soon with my wife and 15yo daughter, as long as the cringe factor on the latter isn’t too great. We saw Everything Everywhere All at Once in the theater, butt plugs and all, but sat in separate parts of the theater. I was planning on watching it when it hit home media based on the praise I kept seeing at The Mary Sue. I had very little idea about the plot, though, having avoided spoilers until getting caught up in this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/196 "2024-02-05T21:17:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ve raised 4 well adjusted young people. Of course my opinion matters to them. I am older than they are. I lived and learned. > > And they will too. With my opinion blaring in their heads. > > It’s called teaching. Well, I guess somewhere around there are 4 young people who firmly believe that whoring is evil unless it’s for attention. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/197 "2024-02-05T21:22:46Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > From there he went up to Bethel. As he was going up the road, some little boys came out of the town and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!” > > He turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the name of GOD. Thereupon, two she-bears came out of the woods and mangled forty-two of the children. That one took a few prompts but I think this nailed it. > **[Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/create/photo-of-a-smug-bald-man-in-a-robe-watching-two-be/1-65c14ce416c2420db1dd3ee0be38ee96?id=bptrrfuOdSq%2ffn3wF4MBdA%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&FORM=GCRIDP&mode=overlay)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. (3rd image in the set.) ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/198 "2024-02-05T21:23:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > That one took a few prompts but I think this nailed it Those bears have a disturbing number of claws… Eta: also, if you zoom in on the faces of those “children”, I think they actually appear to be horrible demons. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/199 "2024-02-05T21:24:46Z")
I guess a reassuring number of claws would be zero. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/200 "2024-02-05T21:26:03Z")
Oh, the dozen-clawed bears and demonic children are only in the first photo. Number 3 is pretty great. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107.md?page=11)