The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982) | How Woke Is It?

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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes1982

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What We Think

“The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes” is about as non-woke as French comedies get. It’s more interested in poking fun at everybody than in lecturing the audience. Any modern ideological themes are absent or filtered through light farce, not activism.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

This classic French comedy centers on the chaos sparked when female gendarmes join a previously all-male police force. While it explores gender integration, it does so as broad satire, not by shoehorning in contemporary identity politics. The story remains focused on character-driven humor rather than heavy-handed ideological messaging.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

Traditional gender roles are playfully upended, but this happens within a spirit of 1980s slapstick rather than as a critique of masculinity, religion, or family. No core cultural traditions are ridiculed or seriously undermined; much of the comedy comes from culture clash, not cultural revisionism.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Different viewpoints and personalities are played for laughs. While the arrival of female gendarmes shocks the men, dissent isn’t demonized; if anything, everyone is made fun of equally. There’s no sense of enforced ideological uniformity, and the film doesn’t present one worldview as superior.

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