Blade Runner: Deep Thoughts About Replicants, Women, and Why Neither Get to Be Human

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want.The 1982 sci fi classic, Blade Runner, was a favorite of the Guy girls’ father. Mainstream media critics can’t ruminate about how a loved one’s relationship with a piece of problematic pop culture affects the way we view it. Luckily, we aren’t mainstream media.In this episode, we peel back the layers of misogyny, unhealthy sexual politics, dubious consent, toxic masculinity, and xenophobia that surround this truly breathtaking mash-up of neo-noir, science fiction, and dystopian future-casting. Blade Runner asks important questions about the nature of humanity while simultaneously denying humanity to women (the only female characters who appear are Replicants). The Guy sisters bring some deep thoughts about why that is, what changes could have addressed it, and how their dad could have missed it.Throw on your earbuds and have a listen before all of our deep thoughts disappear like tears in the rain!TW: discussion of violence, sexual assault, and rapeMentioned in this episode:The person who suggested Rachael giving “tears in the rain” would have been more powerful:https://screenmayhem.com/blade-runner-1982-has-an-inexplicable-gender-blindspot/More feminist analysis of the film:https://trinitycollegestage3media.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/blade-runner-feminist-reading/Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Support the show at ko-fi.com/guygirlsLearn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus episodes, video versions, and early access to Deep Thoughts by visiting us on Patreon. We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!