Bee Movie - It Should Have Been Jockettes

I liked the first half of The Bee Movie when it came out a few years ago. The last half of it, with the bees suing humans, was terrible....

So they're showing it now, on TV, and I'm watching it, and it annoys me as much as ever.

Not that I still don't like the first half of it, but the fact is that the movie is factually wrong. It is the female bees that leave the hive to collect honey, it is the male bees that stay in the hive to service the queen.

But of course in the movie, it is the husky, handsome "Pollen Jocks" who fly out into the open, adventurous air, while the females stay in the hive and swoon when the Pollen Jocks come flying by.

(One has to wonder why the Pollen Jocks did not have any Jockettes among them. What were the movie makers trying to say about the equality of bee females?)

What the movie should have done was have the female bees be the Pollen Jockettes - they could still be feminine - think Emma Peel, Ziva David, etc - while the male bees are the timid ones in the hive. That would give Jerry Seinfeld's character all the more reason to want to leave the hive in search of adventure.

And it would also have shown girl viewers that a life of adventure was a normal life to want to have...