Can you imagine if this movie had been made today?

These days, it literally isn't possible to write the word 'feminism' without starting a flame war. The only thing it takes for a movie to be labelled 'feminist propaganda' is for one of the main characters to be female.

If Thelma & Louise had been made today, just... oh my god... can you imagine what the reaction would be like? The conservatives, neo-nazis, MRAs, MGTOWs, PUAs, Nice Guys, incels, gamergaters, neoreactionaries, Trump-supporters, etc. would go absolutely ape$hit. About 76 foaming-at-the-mouth rants about it would be published on Breitbart, Captain Capitalism, Chateau Heartiste, Matt Forney.com, Return of Kings, Stares at the World, a Voice For Men and Vox Populi, to say nothing of several dozen YouTube videos in which neckbearded Bay Area technolibertarians spelled out its evulz for us whilst occasionally stopping to gripe about fat women and Muslim immigration. Ridley Scott would be labelled a 'beta male', a 'mangina', a 'cuck', a 'SJW', a 'Jew' and a 'cultural Marxist' attempting to orchestrate the downfall of western civilization. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon would be inundated with rape and murder threats. All three would be doxed. It'd all be so histrionic that the news would comment on it.

All of the above happened with Mad Max: Fury Road. It happened with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's happening right now with Ghostbusters. And those weren't/aren't even explicitly feminist - they just featured/feature women in action roles. If Thelma & Louse, a movie which was explicitly feminist, and in which all male characters (save the sheriff) were portrayed in an explicitly disparaging manner, the fury would be multiplied tenfold to the point of breaking the internet.

Just wait. I'll bet you my bottom dollar that the people I listed will turn up in the replies to validate every point I've just made...