Hollywood.com writer skewers "Sex and the City" misandry

Submitted by johndias on Thu, 2010-05-27 21:24

Article here. The writer (C. Robert Cargill) criticizes the misandry that he encounters and notices whenever a movie critic says anything negative about the Sex and the City movie franchise. Good for him. Comments for this article at his Web site are wide open! Excerpt:

'In the new film Sex and the City 2, heroine Carrie Bradshaw suffers a crippling blow to her ego as she discovers her brand new book – a book about married life and wedding vows – is utterly destroyed by a review in the New Yorker. Distraught, she turns to her three best friends and over drinks it is decided that the reviewer, a man, simply cannot stand the thought of a powerful, liberated woman. Problem solved. No, really. That’s the last we hear of that subplot. It is actually the first of three subplots (out of five total) that are resolved this way in the new film. Men are sexist pigs that are the root of all of our problems. Drink up ladies!

Now, on the surface, I’m fine with this. While it's a terribly unsatisfying way to wrap up a subplot (as well as ultimately serving nothing but reinforcing negative stereotypes), a movie can and will say what it wants. And it’s not like there aren’t actually sexists out there that are, in fact, threatened by powerful, liberated women. Sex and the City brings that ugliness out in droves, filling comment sections with 10-year-old South Park jokes about the age of the women and their appearance. But at the same time, the series (and others like it, like Twilight) also brings out an ugly spate of misandry, as male critics, like myself, are deluged with hate mail, comments and rampant, misdirected sexism stemming from negative reviews of female-tooled entertainment.'

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I applaud this guy's clear and forthright description of the inane complaints that so many feminist women make. More of us men should be doing the same. I have received many complaints from feminists, complaints that are totally devoid of substance, that are empty, and based on no facts whatever. For example, one feminist yesterday complained to me about two brilliant men who were community leaders. She never got specific about what her problem was. After being questioned repeatedly about her objection, she finally admitted that she had an issue with "structure based on hierarchy" as if that was somehow something that only men do. Another woman objected to the fact that the men in a different group were the leaders, but no women wanted to step up and be leaders. So the men were not in fact controlling and dominating, as this woman alleged -- they were only doing what nobody else wanted to do. Don't let angry feminist women get away with bullshit complaints like this.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Fri, 2010-05-28 17:14