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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad news bears.  I will also give an impassioned defense of the one really racist line in the movie—like blazing saddles, I think it is an incisive sendup of racist attitudes.  [/quote]

I was just talking about this with my buddies this weekend. Is the line you're talking about the one where Tanner says "Jews, ****s, ******s, and now a girl!?"

I agree the movie would never get made today. And when you get down to it, it has a really progressive message! A bunch of kids excluded because of their race, gender, socioeconomic status, and athletic ability band together and take down the athletic white boys. [b]In part because the dad, steeped in all kinds of toxic masculinity,* completely alienates his son! [/b]

(*They wouldn't have used that phrase, of course. But that's basically what was going on.)  [/quote]

The hyper-competitive dad/coach of the other team slaps his son (the pitcher) in front of the whole crowd for being [i]too rough[/i] and hitting one of the Bad News Bears with a pitch.  Just a quirky, strange movie that really subverts your expectations in a lot of ways.[/quote]

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