Misogynistic Language

Rating: 6/10 (25 August 2014)

This movie is better than the average comic-to-screen work. I would say that it surpasses many of the year's other films of the same genre, such as TASM2, TMNT, etc.
However, this film, like many of the other films in its genre, suffers from sexist tones. But it goes even farther and uses misogynistic, violent language against the ONLY female protagonist, Zoe Saldana's character.
She is referred to as a "wench," "green whore," and various other derogatory terms by one of the other protagonists. What is worse, he tells her that she is his "friend" but still calls her these names. He then proceeds to exert violence towards an antagonist character who uses a slur against her, proclaiming that "no one else" can talk to his "friend" that way.
So, not only does this movie condone rape culture, patriarchy, and violent language, it also infantilizes and patronizes the only female character through making her tolerant of her colleague's "protector" attitude in the aforementioned scene, despite the fact that she is more than capable of taking care of herself.
The specific slurs used themselves reflect the dudebro, sexist attitude of the filmmakers and of our society at large: slut, whore, wench, etc. All derogatory sexual terms used for a woman who has more sex than society wants her to. The character has no sex at all in the film, but because she is a woman, she is seen as a sexual object and thus the only way to "insult" her in this patriarchal mentality is to use derogatory sexual remarks against her.
I cannot support films like this. Whoever wrote this script needs to be educated in gender studies.
Yes, the movie had good visual effects and a solid villain and a good storyline. Rocket and Groot were fun characters. But we should not allow the positive aspects of the film to overshadow the threatening nature of its sexist undertones. Such seemingly innocuous remarks and societal norms contribute heavily to and define misogyny, patriarchy, rape culture, victim blaming, sex phobia, and backwards attitudes.