Senate Let's Talk: Feminism

I don't understand why Alamo Drafthouse feels the need to subject an audience to a DC movie. Women have been through enough.

 

That minor detail doesn't fit comfortably with the victim mentality.

 

Can someone please explain why:
1) This isn't just a publicity stunt by Alamo Drafthouse with a "how do you do fellow young feminists?" tacked on?

2) What material gains do women get from two women only showings of Wonder Woman that makes this beyond a) a feel good moment and b) a symbolic gesture?

I've already made this joke like, four times now.

 

I don't disagree that it's perhaps a crass publicity stunt. That doesn't make the MRA reactions any less ridiculous.

 

The entire film's marketing banks on the notion that people should see a true and meaningful expression of feminism in what is very likely another loud generic superhero movie where some idiot punches some CGI thing. It is consumption as socio-political engagement and an ultimately hollow commercial product. Theaters are creating a stream of monetization from the well the movie studio itself first dug.

 

I haven't said a thing about the reactions. My thing here is...how has this helped women in any way?

 

It most likely hasn't. Does it need to, though?

 

Granted I think there is still a gender imbalance across Hollywood as a whole but as with TFA pushing the idea that one female lead in an action film makes for some kind of great advancement in equality obviously rings false to me. I mean were decades after stuff like Aliens and Terminator 2 which included female leads of substance so just selling a film of a "girl kicking ass" to me just feels a bit cheap

This kind of promotion as well just seems like its deliberately fishing for a reaction from your typical knuckle draggers to.

 

Personally my only issue would be that I think often its not a "political move" but rather a financial one, basically looking to cast your film as socially important in order to attract greater attention when really its content doesn't merit that.

I'v actually nothing against cinema looking to take a political role but really I would argue that most of the best female lead roles in blockbusters have really been driven by artistic considerations. Either because the story that's looking to be told is better suited to a female lead or I would argue because this actually often gives you a freer hand dramatically. Blockbusters do generally tend to work rather in dramatic short hand moreso than many other cinematic forms and do aim for mass appeal so follow gender expectations rather more which I think results in female leads being easier to give a broader emotional range to. You look at Rogue One for example and you've got a character who can move from credible warrior to emotional breakdown and back again several times with no problem.

 

The mayor of Austin, TX, posted an e-mail he received from a man complaining about the Wonder Woman women-only screening. Actually it read more as a rant about women using the cover of the screening as an excuse. The author of the letter called women "the second-rate gender" but then said "I don't hate women." The mayor posted his response to this letter, and I like the approach he took. Linky

 

Yeah, that's some response!

 

****in 'A!

That reply was maximum snark!

 

yeah i recognise the swedish reality myself. sometimes it makes it hard for me to participate well in this thread because the topics that come up here sometimes are so farfetched to me. like when it comes to sex ed and abortion and etc, specifically.

 

WNBA's Seattle Storm forms partnership with Planned Parenthood.

 

Wait, what? Both of those laws sound too insane to be true. Do burglary victims have to prove resistance as well in Alabama? How many in Alabama and North Carolina are aware of these laws? I mean, are they archaic and rarely cited and thus flying under the radar or very much still active? Has there been any attempt to overturn them?

I can still remember the twisted gut anger I felt watching a video of male frat students chanting "No means yes, yes means ****" over and over. Hearing that there's a problem on college campuses almost comes as no surprise.

 

Alabama is one of those "Stand Your Ground/Castle Defense." Burglary victims don't have to prove resistance; I think the assumption is that they're packing and will blow away anyone who tries to take anything from them. Alabama is a very red state.

Well, you could argue it may have opened minds about the ability of female directors to bring in $$$, which may lead to more opportunities in Hollywood for all women filmmakers. And a lot of young girls now have a main character who is the hero who does the rescuing, rather than wait around for someone to rescue her. Let's face it; even our own Princess Leia had to wait for someone to get her out of that cell.

 

Sweden has less than 1/4 the rate of teen pregnancy the UK does as well I believe.

 

Wtf? I asked how women only screenings helped women, not how wonder woman helped women. Learn to read please.

 

So, having read the last few posts - damn, what the hell did I just read? So incredibly wrong.