Justice and the not so Silent Feminists Strike Back

"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is a hilarious movie about two stoners from New Jersey who go on an action packed adventure to Hollywood to save their good names, after learning that people on a popular movie review website were talking trash about the main characters of the movie "Bluntman and Chronic," of whom Jay and Silent Bob were the inspiration for. While on their way to Hollywood they met a girl named Justice , who offered to let them hitch a ride with her friends and her. Shortly there after Jay and Silent Bob were introduced to Krissy, Missy, and Sissy and Brent.

The girls told Jay and Silent Bob that they were part of the Kansas City Chapter of SACC (Students Against Animal Cruelty) and that they were headed to California to protest the use of animals in medical testing, but in reality they were a group of professional thiefs (with the exception of Brent) on their way to California to pull off a major diamond heist. Along the way Jay threw Brent out of the car, which put the ladies in a tight situation because the only reason that they brought Brent along for the ride was because they needed him to be their patsy and take the heat off of them after the diamond heist. As a solution the girls decided to convince Jay and Silent Bob to take Brent's place as their patsy, but unlike the rest of her friends, Justice was very reluctant to do so.

At that point in the film it became readily apparent to me that two, very different, ideas of femininity were being portrayed via Justice and her her friends. Justice was used to portray societies' ideal view of femininity. Her character was kind, caring, beautiful, and understanding. Opposingly Krissy, Missy, and Sissy were used to portray femininity from a feminist's perspective. Their characters were all strong and independent women.

However, because "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" was both written and directed by a man, as opposed to a women, the girls actually portrayed a feministic view of femininity from a Male's perspective. That masculine perspective became increasingly evident to me as the movie progressed and more and more of their character traits were revealed. Their characters were manipulative, greedy, and cold-hearted which provided the audience with the impression that all feminists are dangerous and are not to be trusted.

With that in mind I would like to mention that Krissy, Missy, and Sissy all ended up in prison, while Justice received a severely reduced sentence and was permitted to go to a concert with Jay at the end of the movie even though she committed the exact same crime as them, which left the audience with the perception that feminists never prosper.