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** Hell, the whole movie is teeming with such implications. Just for starters, there's the contemptuous description of Athenians as [[Paedo Hunt|"boy-lovers."]] That becomes hypocritical (not to mention hilarious) when you remember how prevalent homosexuality was among the Spartans themselves. ([[They Just Didn't Care|Not that Miller cares]], though, making them all heterosexual.)

** There's also a strange undercurrent of [[The War on Terror|jingoistic Americana]] that wasn't present in the comic, with the outnumbered Spartans [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?|speculated to represent]] a beleaguered America facing off in a valiant battle against the foreign hordes.

** Or to put it another way: would this film have been tolerated if all the characters were genderswapped? Not really. One of the unfortunate implications is that [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|rape is ok, funny, and rewarded as long as it's a female raping an unwilling and unconscious male]]. At least if it were gender-swapped, there would likely have been a bit more public outcry about the [[Black Comedy Rape]] aspect. As it was, it was mostly feminists who complained.

** If the film is trying to say that relationships could be better with less of a focus on sex, why does it end with the protagonist and his love interest having a marathon sex session?