Abigail Young

As a feminist latinx who grew up inspired by my fathers stories of his punk rock days, I have to say not only is this movie an absolute disgrace to the punk rock community but as well as it is god awfully SHAMEFUL to the feminist movement. The movie "moxie" is more to victimise women rather then empower them, and while I do see that for there to be movement there needs to be recognition, all this movie took was the victimization of women and portray it into something supposedly "punk". Punk is a movement inspired by the need for change, how are you supposed to show change in a movie where all the director did was throw a leather jacket on a stuck up, socially unaware, and not to mention annoying, little white girl(the protagonist) who backs up a black girl by taking over her entire persona. If you want to truly speak out and be inspired by the diverse, at least get a sense of what the change is for and about and why it is needed. This movie shows a story of a girl who sees feminism and activism as a trend and changes her entire personality to revolve around getting a couple of answers for her college essay. When the truly oppressed speak out in society today, they are victimized and not given the credit they deserve for fighting. They are ignored and not listened to. So directors and producers take this and say "oh why not sprinkle a little white privilege on it and ratings will be through the roof!" That itself is absolutely disgusting. If you are going to use your privilege to speak out at least do it in a manner that doesn't make activism appear to be a so called "trend" and especially do not portray feminism in movies as unbearable and over the top or even extreme, because all it does is set a bad name to a community that is just trying to balances out the stereotypes of today and solve issues in the world by speaking out. The best part of this movie was the music by the iconic band Bikini Kill, but was easily washed away when it was associated with all the baggage of extremism, white privilege, and undermining the oppressed, which is the exact opposite of punk and the exact opposite of "moxie".