Land of Confusion
Superman, where are you now? (He's in this movie and he sucks.)
I watched And God Made Man (2024, dir. Jessica Adams) so you don’t have to. Inspired by God Awful Movies’ own take on this cinematic nonsense-terpiece, I just had to see it for myself. The film features Dean Cain and Kevin Sorbo in supporting roles and it only gets worse from there.
And God Made Man opens with what else but a swimming competition as inciting incident for a massive campaign of transphobia, cutting a path through the legal system with religious non-sequiturs and every conservative cliché in the book. The film hinges on a dubious, legally sanctioned theocracy and some really egregious straw men, all of which adds up to an apocalyptic vision of the world conservatives would like to live in. The whole story, as you guessed from the title, comes from Genesis whatever: and God made man and woman and something something, separate but equal or something. That’s it. That’s the real crux of the argument. Spare me. The only Genesis I care about involves Peter Gabriel and/or Phil Collins.
That biblical evocation is the core of this jawbreaker of malice, but it’s layer after layer of bullshit. Add in some classic “facts don’t care about your feelings” Ben Shapiro nonsense, a bit of arguing that being trans is a mental illness, and an, ahem, liberal dose of oh this is all so darned confusing. This last point is important, because in case you’re unaware, the movie will inform you that the point of all this trans-ing the left is doing is to create confusion. Why? Shut up, that’s why. I’m relatively low on the trans Satanist cabal ladder, but here’s how it works.
Step 1. Turn kids trans
Step 2. Create confusion
Step 3.
Step 4. Profit!
See? Makes perfect sense. Open and shut, supper’s ready, and so on.
The irony, of course, is that all this performative confusion on the right over expansive genders and gender norms is all their own doing. This stuff is only as confusing as you yourself make it, and no amount of over-the-top mixed-pronoun stammering can change the fact that this is all forced ignorance: forced on themselves, forced on children, forced on the population at large, all based on what they believe their imaginary watcher of the skies wants of them. It’s easy to misunderstand when you try to misunderstand. You are the ones confusing children. Understanding is hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway.
One of the reasons I felt compelled to cover this film is that I think it’s very telling. It’s a playbook of conservative malfeasance. And it makes me feel sad for any kid who grows up being subjected to this propaganda. It’s just a shame, that’s all.
As we start to see more self-determined trans representation in cinema, I’m not surprised to see a rise in conservative “cinema” that goes in the opposite direction: Daily Wire films like Lady Ballers and What is a Woman?, the what-passes-for-conservative-star-studded And God Made Man, and of course, Emilia Perez.
Bonus Content: Can you find all the Genesis songs and lyrics hidden in this article? Abacab!
Answer Key:
- Land of Confusion (song, from the album Invisible Touch)
- “Superman, where are you now?” from Land of Confusion
- Supper’s Ready (song, from the album Foxtrot)
- Watcher of the Skies (song, from the album Foxtrot)
- “Hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway” from Fly on a Windshield (from the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
- “It’s just a shame, that’s all” from That’s All (from the album Genesis)
- Abacab (song, from the album Abacab)
