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"The Crusades."
No one comments on the movie's most notable feature: that here Eastwood crusades on behalf of a character he would have summarily dispatched, vigilante style, in previous films.
(Whereas Gear, which retains certain elements of the old men's mag ethos, and the old hostility--and not incidentally runs somewhat longer articles--does worry about and argue with feminism, as in its recent piece on sexual repression in the military, in which it is argued, after a fashion, that 1) we can't suppress male soldiers' urge to rape and harass women without suppressing the urge to kill that's the military's reason for being, 2) sexual harassment crusades interfere with women's equality, 3) women soldiers aren't men's equals anyway, and 4) why do we need women in the military in the first place?)
The ensuing Civil War became one of the great crusades of the 20th century.
The Crusades were launched to prepare for the Revelation; the Reformation was inspired by Martin Luther's identification of the papacy with the Antichrist; and Christian fundamentalists support Zionism because they believe that Christ will return to earth only when the Jews return to Israel.