Did you know there’s yet another adaptation of “Little Women” currently playing in theaters? Did you know that if you don’t want to go see it, you’re probably just a sexist man?
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"If many men haven’t wanted to give it a chance because they don’t think it’s meant for them, we still have a ways to to go in considering all kinds of narratives about women to be deserving of thoughtful attention," Kristy Eldredge writes. https://t.co/DS5ImS8Kz5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 27, 2019
Kristy Eldredge writes:
While the box office numbers following its release on Wednesday suggest the movie has found a decent audience — it placed third, behind the new “Star Wars” and the latest “Jumanji,” on opening day — that unconscious bias has seemed to trickle down to the casual male viewer as well, if Twitter is any indication. The New York Times critic Janet Maslin recently tweeted her surprise at the “active hostility about ‘Little Women’ from men I know, love and respect.”
She also described the movie’s “problem with men” as “very real.” Someone tweeted in response: “It’s not a ‘problem.’ We just don’t care.”
And that’s highly problematic, you guys. Because we’re on the cusp of 2020, and men should obviously have progressed enough to want to see every woman-centric movie without hesitation.
Data-heavy, fact-based research from the New York Times pic.twitter.com/Nvdl9bW2nx
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 27, 2019
Or maybe — just maybe — wokescolds like Kristy Eldredge just don’t know what to do with themselves if they can’t find something to complain about. It’s not really a problem that lots of men don’t want to see “Little Women,” so let’s make it a problem, dammit!
Maybe because it’s a chick flick? #LittleWomen
“Men are Dismissing ‘Little Women.’ What a Surprise.” https://t.co/HMWE41Va8g— Christina Sommers 🧢 (@CHSommers) December 27, 2019
The super woke are upset that men don't want to see a movie starring women, about women, marketed for women. What a suprise…
— James Carrico (@james_carrico) December 27, 2019
If you don't go to see Little Women, you're a misogynist. If you do go to see Little Women but you give it anything but unalloyed praise, you're a misogynist. If the result is going to be the same regardless, why not save all that time and money? pic.twitter.com/oHSzH4nwby
— 🎅It's🎄Almost ⛄️Christmas🎁 (@jtLOL) December 27, 2019
If you do go to see Little Women and give it unalloyed praise, you're also a misogynist for your condescending attitude towards a sub par product by women.
— Martin Barretto (@martinbarretto) December 27, 2019
And what of the women who don’t really care about seeing “Little Women”? Are they just self-loathing, willing victims of the patriarchy?
There are women dismissing it too.
Do we need another adaptation?
Do we need yet another “women are more than wives!” movie?
Can we believe Emma Watson (who’s 29) as a 16yo? https://t.co/YmTaqX0R5u— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) December 27, 2019
I'm a chick and I have dismissed it.
— Sara 🚫h (@YourMomLiteraly) December 27, 2019
Yep. I don't understand why we need another Little Women.
— Amy (@muscleMATTERSah) December 27, 2019
It would probably be problematic if too many men watched it.
— Fearful Asymmetry (@oneasymmetry) December 27, 2019
Good point.
Women also didn't flock to the theater to watch Crank.
Surely this means our society is broken and sexist. There can be no other explanation.
— The Shameless Fujoshi (@GyakutennoMeg) December 27, 2019
The remakes are getting almost as old as the constant barrage of hot takes shaming anyone who’s not sufficiently woke.
We're now at a point where every major studio release elicits takes like this. Either not enough or too many or the wrong kinds of people are watching a film, which something something something politics.https://t.co/h2VEw3AS64
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 27, 2019
2/ "That’s what 'Little Women' is — a plea for women to be seen as human beings."
This nails why I'm not seeing it — I get infuriated when women are treated like humans.
General theory of the case: We see a lot of these takes because ~we live in a society~ in which politics
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 27, 2019
3/ and community and civic participation are on the wane. People don't really feel connected to anything, a lot of the time, and don't have much hope major problems are going to be solved. So they turn to other stuff. There's more content than ever before, and more (bad) content-
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 27, 2019
4/ commentary than ever before, so it strikes me as reasonable to imagine that some of that energy is getting displaced. And of course some of it is getting captured by studios who realize they can ride faux politics to box-office success, sometimes.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 27, 2019
5/ For all I know "Little Women" is BRILLIANT, but these narratives are often invoked to spur 'controversy' about the retread garbage that constitutes most of Hollywood's outlet.
OH SO U R SAYING U AREN'T INTERESTED IN A FEMALE GHOSBUSTER????
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 27, 2019
Make movies people want to see, and people will see them. Seems pretty simple to us.
