From SFGate:

Funny thing about the academy. It likes honoring movies with liberal political and social messages, but only at a point when those ideas have become so mainstream that no one could disagree.

The thesis of the SFGate piece is that the Academy is not brave enough to be activist. But I turn your attention to JUNO. The male SFGate author never bothers to mention feminist's sad history at Oscar. Nor their willing activism to promote the abortion wars. Gay is always humanized and bay bashers are evil--period. Abortion is always, as Obama likes to say,: "a moral tragedy!" Gay bashers should be portrayed as evil. So..... Why can't we portray pro-force as evil? Oh, wait that is only for Palin, who, btw, put a pro-choice supreme court female on her bench!

A few years ago a great movie on abortion was put out in Romania, but the Academy snubbed it for foreign language film nomination.
Four months, 3 weeks and 2 days. POWERful. The academy was quite activist, in NOT recognizing this brilliant film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Months,_3_Weeks_and_2_Days

And as for activism:
From Wiki:

Juno won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Page.

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Juno was ALL about promoting adoption over abortion for teen girls.
It was designed to remind women that they have a duty to be "sacred vessels" to a fetus and that women are manipulative creatures who rely on smart boys to give them the science test answers.
When a woman in Juno does mention the bleak prospect that comes with teen pregnancy, she is trashed as pagan and the B word. If this movie wasn't activist, I don't know what is! Teh Academy LOVED IT, the critics went wild, promoting a film that keeps abortion politics roiling!

Juno did not come close to Best Picture caliber! It was like this year's Hangover, cutzie but that's it. Hangover was NOT included for a best picture this year, obviously. But JUNO needed to be politicized. Maximum see-age was needed to keep abortion wars ripe! To keep women tethered to the Blue party, abortion needs to be on the front lines of political wars. Hollywood understands its job. Without abortion, milliions of women would vote their pocketbooks. And now that gay marriage has Dick Cheney, guess what...abortion will be even more needed to keep women Blue!

But keeping the choice issue a tempest in a teapot is what "liberal" Hollywood likes to do. Abortion must never be simplified to a human right for women! Hollywood would never agree to THAT simple fact! Why is it feasible to say that the academy likes liberal messages, when.... when it comes to women, that is SO not the case.

Just ask Hollywood why it is willing to honor the gratuitous use of sexual epithets. WHY am I called a skanky bitch day after day on TV?... and why does Letterman get to call me a slut and why do Senators get away with B-wording their female flight crew? HollyWood likes it. They promote it, they agitate for it! They force women to say it about themselves and other women day after day after day after...
Just watch an epidose of Cougar Town and you will wish Courtney Cox would be sucked into a black hole and GO AWAY!

Here is what we had to say about Juno, way back when:
http://www.femisex.com/content/typecast-august-osage-county-and-juno-and...