"triggering" comedy

While some people have waffled on the question of whether "The Hunt" qualified as a "rightie" movie, this new comedy movie called "Lady Ballers," produced by The Daily Wire (obnoxious nerd Ben Shapiro's baby, and producer of the upcoming "orthodox" live-action version of the Snow White story), has been billed as a "triggering" comedy about trans women in sports with a definite, unapologetically right-wing slant. While there are some people on the right who are genuinely funny and quick-witted, the right as a whole is not known for having much more than a very timid, square sense of humor—an impression (or stereotype) that hasn't changed much despite the left's transmogrification into a schoolmarmish moral scold, and the right's self-redefinition as a defender of politically incorrect humor. So: will "Lady Ballers" be genuinely funny, or will it fizzle as yet another rightie attempt to seem "with it"? Here's Matt Walsh, shilling for the movie (in which he plays the role of an anti-Walsh, someone diametrically the opposite of who the real-life Walsh is):

If you want to see just the trailer without Walsh's usual acerbic commentary, here you go:

To continue the point I was making earlier today, the right definitely needs to up its game and start creating culture instead of consuming it. It's not enough just to sit around passively enjoying, say, classical music written centuries earlier: it's time to use one's brain to create something—something along the lines of what rightie critics have been demanding of "woke" leftie films, by which I mean entertainment with a well-crafted story that doesn't push a preachy agenda (so that leaves out most Christian-themed films, which, politely speaking, hit you over the head with their own Message). It could be that "Lady Ballers" will turn out to be the start of this welcome trend, but I'll have to see the movie and decide for myself.

On a related note, and in fairness, it should be said that leftist Hollywood is capable, on occasion, of producing surprisingly right-leaning films. I'm thinking specifically of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," those underlying subtext was all about why people need to distrust government. Using programmed helicarriers as a heavy-handed metaphor, the movie tells us that the people supposedly governing us in truth want to gather all the information they can about us while deciding which of us to kill and how to limit the freedoms of the living. It was, in fact, rather surprising to see such a movie produced in the context of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a product of ostensibly woke Hollywood. It's almost enough to make me wonder how many people really caught the movie's not-so-hidden message. Anyway, my point is that all is not completely lost: even an institution as leprous and warped as Hollywood can sometimes turn out a flawed gem or two. It's rare, but it happens.