"Please, no more movies about white male geniuses"

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2015-01-26 13:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'At the height of my sluglike summer viewing regime last week, I sat down to watch Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind, as a) it was on TV and b) I had managed to miss it both in cinemas and on its home entertainment release.

Within about fifteen minutes' worth of screen time, give or take a few ear-searing ads for car insurance, I was bored witless. Not because I don't like Russell Crowe or Paul Bettany (they were fine) or Ron Howard (Parenthood!), but because I have already seen this movie, about a million times.

By "this movie", I mean the tale of the complex white male genius, and boy hasn't it been a banner year for them.
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And since I'm quite certain Hollywood will continue to pump out these tales of white male achievement at a rate of knots, it's time for us to treat them the way these films treat anyone who isn't their beloved complex white man: with a conspicuous lack of attention.'

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..."romantic comedies" (aka "chick flicks"), another genre that arguably gets way too much screen time?

Really, I do wonder.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2015-01-28 06:30

that's rather odd...
there are FAR more films with the message that "men are stupid" (especially those "awful white men") than there are about men being intelligent.
funny, i don't hear you bitching about the endless flow of those types of films,
Clem Bastow.
whether you like it or not, MEN tend to be geniuses far more often than women.
but... (and i'm sure you'll LOVE this part, Clem Bastow) males tend to also suffer more often from mental problems and "learning disorders" than females.

so... your statement manages to be both sexist AND racist at the same time.

funny how feminists manage to be experts at doing that.

"Clem Bastow"...??? what sort of a stupid name is that?? "Clem". what? are you rather a Hillbilly, or something...? (no offence to Hillbillies, my current boyfriend is one. and a rather charming one, at that.❤)

good god, these types of people like Clem Bastow are tiresome.

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Wed, 2015-01-28 20:54

Her misandry and jealousy are both showing.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Wed, 2015-01-28 22:50