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Combing through a thrift store DVD section and noticed a case with an odd-looking insert so I pulled it out. This isn’t just bootleg, it’s nothing but a label on a disc with no foil (aka the layer where the actual movie is)

But I do love the choice of movies to pull this with. Really engaging with the themes

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I will never be over the fact that the 2004 Stepford Wives opens with a montage of 1940s-70s clips of housewives...who are really professional actresses and dancers (including, I'm pretty sure, Cyd Charisse). these women are performing idealized domesticity while actually bucking the norms of their eras to have careers outside the home. foreshadowing the fact that the "perfect housewives" of the movie aren't real, and in a way also the woman who bought into internalized misogyny so hard that she created this false domestic idyll. AND the relationship that "trad" types have to the past as a whole- embracing a version of it that never truly existed to try and affirm their ideal of how the world should be

I don't know if the filmmakers thought of that, but it lives in my mind rent-free

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Side point, but until I revisited wikipedia to look up the date of the 2004 adaptation, I hadn’t remembered that one of the men controls his gay husband. Considering modern politics, I feel that’s pretty clever, actually. I feel like I could write a whole essay about queer assimilation and conservative politics using that plot point as a jumping off point.

[Starting a new post because off-topic] You are so SO correct that that detail might be the most horrifying part of 2004 Stepford Wives. It viscerally illustrates the cost of blending in to get ahead — the husbands can be just! like! other! couples! but in order to do that properly, they must replicate the dynamic where one of them has power and privilege while the other is treated as a semi-dependent semi-child for life. They have to make their coupling fit "which one's the husband, and which the wife?" by having one of them become a vapid pink-wearing sillyhead, and one a domineering breadwinner.

Which of course reminds me of Sinners, because one of the big theses of that movie is How Irish-Americans Became White — AKA by learning to trail behind the bullies (the Anglos) and beat even harder on the bullied (BIPOC) so that they'd get let into the white privilege club by ceasing to threaten it. Like, my Irish and Italian grandparents talked about how "Catholic" used to be a race in the U.S., and how it's not that Catholics became white, it's that White Anglo-Saxon Protestants redrew the lines of whiteness to include light-skinned Catholics so that they could keep their majority power over everyone with brown skin.

The people on the margins (white cis gay men, European-Americans from the wrong parts of Europe) can join the privilege club, but to do so they must give up all solidarity with their trans and Black siblings in favor of stomping on those groups with all their might in order to get a leg up. And there are some excellent horror movies that play that out in extremely literal fashion.

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The horror of Stepford Wives is not just in feminist women being replaced by tradwife robots. It is in the fact that their husbands do not care and even prefer that their wife has been replaced with a tradwife robot. Imagine marrying the love of your life, who promised to love, honor and cherish their wives, to love and support you forever — and they abandon those promises as soon as they see that they can have a version of you that treats them like royalty. Joanna’s husband did not love her as much as he promised he did if he was so easily swayed into buying a hollow, mindless shell that only vaguely resembled her in appearance.

The preexisting children don’t realize that their mother has been replaced and the long term effects are never explored or elaborated on. They just go through life believing that mom has fallen in with a new crowd and changed herself up — but what happens when the husband and children age and the robot doesn’t because it’s a robot. The husband does not care because his needs will be met forever at the expense of the life of the woman he swore to love and protect.

What happens when he recounts a memory and looks to the robot to share it with her only to remember that it only looks like the woman he married and doesn’t have any of her memories and can’t reminisce with him. What happens when the selfish prick actually starts becoming remorseful and is now stuck in a life with a robot he can’t get rid of. In this essay I will

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Is It My Body? — a multifandom horror fanvid

"What have I got that makes you want to love me? Is it my body? Or someone I might be? Or something inside me?" Reproductive and domestic horror in the 1970s.

Premiered at VidUKon 2026. Cross-posted on AO3.