Shaw't Fuse: Un-American Pie

Is American Pie problematic? Gen Z seem to think so 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Clarsy.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yes, Lisa, I feel as though I feel.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
As though jen Z might be mean. God love them.
They might be the first generation in the history of
the world where the generations that have gone before them
are telling them to lighten up rather than the other
way around. Okay, am I going to know this?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
What a fuse?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well a little fraud at least. Jen Z. Teenagers have
been sharing their thoughts on the movie American Pie, where
some saying the movies are and a quote deeply problematic.
Oh no, you know what Sherlock I mean, that was
the point my Little loves. In October nineteen ninety nine,
American Pie made overnight stars Jason Biggs, Jennifer Cooley, and

(00:48):
Chris Klein. The film saw for awkward teenage boys entering
a packed losyer virginity by prom night, or risk going
to college a loser. Well, every evidently not everybody believes
that Paul Whites's film has aged. Well, Someone's done this
study where they asked jen Z teenagers what they really
thought of various nostalgic movies. A group of sixteen to

(01:11):
nineteen year olds were asked to watch American Pie as
well as classics like Clueless, and Dude Wears My Car
one of the subjects. Sixteen year old Taylor says, of
dude Wears My Car, obviously the whole movie is completely ridiculous,
but it annoyed me because the main characters are sexist
losers and don't deserve any female attention. Oh really, okay.

(01:34):
Taylor's thoughts are similar when it comes to American Pie.
It says believes that the teenage comedy I don't know
whether Taylor is a boy or girl, believes the comedy
is completely ridiculous. Taylor says, the only thing that the
male characters care about is having sex. They're willing to
say and do whatever just to convince the girls to
have sex with them, and this is deeply problematic. I

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don't know if that was realistic when the film came out,
but I think men treat women with a lot more
respect and equality now. Taylor another gen Zetta Olivia, didn't
mince her words. She said it's bordering on in cell attitudes. Clery,
I had to look up in cell. An in Cell,
according to what I found, is a member of an

(02:17):
online subculture of men who define themselves as unable to
get a romantic or sexual partners despite desiring one, and
is typically associated with views that are hostile towards women.
Olivia says, if you were a teenage boy watching this
American pie, you'd basically feel entitled to behave however you

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want it towards women, unless Olivia, and it's just a
mad suggestion. Okay, unless they're smart enough to take it
with a pinch of salt because they've been brought up
to respect women and know what a joke is, just
a thought, Olivia. Anyway, if you find a Marria can
pile deeply problematic Tournier ears away now because I'm just

(03:02):
going to put this out there. I'm cracking it up.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And one time at band camp, we weren't supposed to
have pillow fights, but we had a pillow fight and
it was so much fun. And this one time we
all lost our music and we were supposed to play
this song but we didn't know it, so we just
made it up and we kept playing and playing and
the conductor didn't know what we were doing, and it
was so funny.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Can we play the other bit that?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
She said?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh Lordie,