This is not to say that some white characters don't also die, they do. The UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT is to let you know that, no matter how many victims or how many people from different races are in the movie, the whites and ONLY the whites were cast as the survivors. Or in this case, even have lives that matter.

I don't have a "feminist cliche" alert because the ultra-sexist Women As Victim and/or Window Dressing is so institutionalized in all manner of movies across the board it isn't even worth the time to bring it up. Everybody knows about it. Even Thelma And Louise played out the whole movie in a never ending Women-As-Helpless-Victim vein! What makes it particularly stand out in DOGMA though, is how the flick tries to be so painfully hip and cool and Politically Correct Liberal, Yet Still Paints Every Woman As Helpless Victim And Every Minority As Dead Meat!

It was so over-obvious as to be mind-boggling. Like having Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde upholding the sanctity of marriage, family values and decrying Clinton for lying under oath about his having an affair, WHILE both Gingrich and Hyde are having adulterous affairs and lying under oath about it!

For example: While this movie pretends to be oh so very sensitive toward women (only men are bad, only men are guilty, only men are killed, blah, blah. Women are muses, saviors, and the latest version of GOD), it really just puts them in the background while the guy's get to have all the fun and good lines.

Bethany is sent only male characters to help her in her mission. First Metatron, then Jay and Silent Bob, and finally Rufus. Bethany is never sent any female help. Understand that Bethany is played by Linda Fiorentino, LINDA FIORENTINO (!). When it comes to American, ass-kickin' female leads you have Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, and Linda Fiorintino. Yet in this movie she is helpless without the constant assistance of all the guys who are either saving her life or telling her what to do.

When we first meet Loki, he is talking a Nun right out of her own faith. Later, when Loki and Bartleby go to the Mooby Corporation to do some cleansing of the sinners, the all white board of directors has only one woman. All the sins of the men are laid out. The woman's life story is never told. She is innocent; no background; no life; has done nothing wrong and is reduced to being less than a cipher.

Salma Hayek makes her appearance in this movie as the stripper Serendipity (these guys must have loved her in FROM DUSK TO DAWN) What she is, in reality, is a Muse. She can do nothing herself, she can only influence (in this case men) to actually accomplish the ideas that she invented.

Wait a minute! Shouldn't a muse be influencing the supposed hero of this movie, who is Doctor Bethany? Nope. Serendipity can only influence the men. They are the ones who must save Bethany from getting herself killed.

GOD, while frequently referred to as he, in this movie, is played by a she (Alanis Morrisette). God is unable to speak for herself. To hear her talk will destroy your brain (ah ha ha! Of course *wink*). She needs her male Angels to speak for her in her behalf. She's God! She's Omnipotent! Except she doesn't know how to modulate her voice. She needs men to speak for her. Only when she squeeks and giggles do we hear her.