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Times where movies portray things in an [[Unfortunate Implications|unfortunate way]].
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*** A lot of the people who were once considered "pirates" simply didn't agree with overly restrictive trade companies and struck out to do business on their own. Not very many of them were criminals at all.
* ''[[Forty Days and Forty Nights (Film)|Forty Days and Forty Nights]]'': This film is either some form of satire about abstinence or is the most sexist, anti-abstinence/celibacy film ever. It implies that it is unnatural for a man to abstain from sex in order to discover himself ''and'' that he should be ridiculed, mocked, and punished for even thinking about doing so.
** 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?
** The film portrays 40 days without sex or masturbation as a horrible ordeal. There are many people (religious and otherwise) who go years or even ''their whole lives'' without either. At that, there are people who go forty days without sex/masturbation and don't even notice!
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