Here’s a stunning headline, a real shocker: ‘Grease (the movie) is sexist!!’ HOLY SHIT!! Is it? I never realised. Though thinking about it, the movie is just about school kids. Ok, who are all white, the entire cast, who are either having sex with girls who, in the most part, are unwilling to participate, or they’re plotting some form of rape. There is no gay gang at that school. Nor a ‘trans’ one. Only the Trans Am, but that was a car. Poor Rizzo is shamed as a slut! for being so empowered in her own sexuality that she actually likes sex! With loads and loads of different people, sometimes at the same time. Total empowerment. And yet Sandy becomes a hero by dropping her church-going attire and slagging it up for the final scene? Sorry, I mean, ‘taking control of her feminism and powering up’, ish.

But people are actually complaining about all these things. Well, ok, I extended a few arguments for the sake of commentary, but they want the movie banned from tv. Grease. Fucking Grease. A film so harmless I actually always found it rather pathetic. And if it hadn’t featured Olivia Newton-John, I probably would never have watched it 4,274 times. (I actually had the above poster on my bedroom wall. My mum wouldn’t let me hang it in the lounge). And the passion with which ON-J sang ‘Country Roads’, with tears in her eyes, nostalgic for the West Virginia, ‘where she belongs’ was made all more real by her being an Aussie who’d never been to America. But when you look that good, no-one gives a shit. Ok, I didn’t give a shit. Love is love, right?

We must keep Grease, we should never let it become the cinematic equivalent of a Cecil Rhodes statue. We need our history otherwise when we arrive at a ‘better place’, we’ll have nothing to remind us of what it is better than.

And we’ve come a long way from Grease. Don’t get me started on Blazing Saddles!

We’ve come so far that now, football pundit, Karen Carney commented about Leeds United’s method of play, which some could say is, kind of, her job, and invoked the wrath of the entire county of Yorkshire. Starting with the team itself and then… ‘embellished’ by the ‘fans’ who have insulted, abused, and made the inevitable threats of rape, death, violence, whatever. And because she is a pundit? Or because she is a woman in a man’s world?

I find this type of attack disgusting. And probably, without irony, perpetrated by the same small minded, small-penis-ed individuals who wrote all the PC complaints about Grease. This is NOT what social media is for.

Until she picks on Spurs. Then the bitch is mine!!!

Happy confused Sunday

A xxxx