Porky's Revenge (1985) | How Woke Is It?

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Porky's Revenge1985

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What We Think

Porky's Revenge might be canceled by today’s standards, but from a woke-meter perspective, it’s almost purely non-woke. It prioritizes crude humor over ideology and remains rooted in 1980s comedic sensibilities. No forced diversity, no agenda, just unapologetic mischief.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Porky's Revenge sticks to a raunchy, sex-comedy formula without sacrificing narrative for identity politics. Character traits are all about teenage mischief, not box-checking for diversity or ideological messaging. If anything, it's refreshingly blunt, perhaps a little too blunt by today’s standards, about who its characters are.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film revels in adolescent immaturity and classic gender foibles, poking fun at just about everyone. Masculinity, family, and traditional values are targets for crude jokes, but not in a way that undermines or pathologizes them for modern ideological reasons, just for comedy’s sake.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There’s really no discernible ideological agenda here besides ‘let’s see what trouble these kids can get into.’ There’s no villainization of dissenting views or a forced monoculture, unless you count the monoculture of 1980s American teen-boy humor. It’s not even trying to proselytize.

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