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Wonder Women "Ladies Only" Screening Brouhaha...

dudalb said:
I am curious to see how the World War one angle works out. It was an interesting choice rather then the more obvious World War Two setting.(Wonder Woman premiered in 1942, and spend a good deal of her first three years beating up Nazis). I guess DC wanted to avoid being seen as trying to imitate the first "Captain America" movie.
I am hoping ,giving The World War One Aviation stuff in the film, for a "Hammer of Hell/Enemy Ace" reference......
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Yeah, that's my take too, and I think the decision to set it in WWI was an interesting one. Hopefully they can do the Great War justice; the last time I saw Hollywood try to put WWI aerial fights onscreen, it was...less than an exhilarating experience.
 
You can't call them DCs just because they went to the movies.

Reported.
 
sadhatter said:
I could care less that they did this ( most advanced screenings are to a much more limited audience), but I think it really says something about society today that our most effective advertising strategies consist of putting one group against another.

I think we are really moving in the wrong direction here. Everything lately seems to have to divide people to catch their interest.
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Agreed. One of the great advances of the enlightenment was ending tribalism and attempting to view everyone as equals and to be able to use empathy and reason universally.

That seems to be replaced with identity politics and class against cultural appropriation. Which are seperations, rather than appeals to our common humanity.
 
Dozens and dozens of superhero movies, and how many major releases have featured a female superhero? I'm pretty sure that number is somewhere in the vicinity of zero. Lots of women and girls are psyched that they finally have one, and a private business decides to celebrate this with a private screening.

That's all this is.

The only ones making it "political" are the whiny MRA pussies who throw a fit when everything isn't about them all the time.
 
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Giz said:
Agreed. One of the great advances of the enlightenment was ending tribalism and attempting to view everyone as equals and to be able to use empathy and reason universally.

That seems to be replaced with identity politics and class against cultural appropriation. Which are seperations, rather than appeals to our common humanity.
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Seems to be that it's the Sexists who are the bad guys here....
 
johnny karate said:
Dozens and dozens of superhero movies, and how many major releases have featured a female superhero? I'm pretty sure that number is somewhere in the vicinity of zero. Lots of women and girls are psyched that they finally have one, and a private business decides to celebrate this with a private screening.

That's all this is.

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Whoah - a business that caters to the public just infringed a protected class and you are ok with it? Selective morality much?
 
Cleon said:
I do know a couple of people who've seen it already, and they gave rave reviews. Of course, they're also SJW snowflake libtard types, so clearly their opinions are wrong.
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If they're as you describe them, it just means that their opinion is only going to find agreement among others like them. Which is totally fine; I enjoy reading reviewers whose tastes are different from mine. Once I know what they like and don't like, their reviews can be just as helpful as endorsements from reviewers who share my tastes.

For example, I know that if a reviewer is panning a film for social justice reasons, rather than because of any weakness in pacing, plot, or photography, then it's probably a big dumb macho explosion-fest, and might actually be a fun time for me.

Similarly, if a movie is getting raves for political reasons, I can safely assume it's going to be boring, preachy, or both, and give it a pass.

So if what you say about your friends is true, then their opinions are neither right nor wrong, just subjective, and also very helpful to me in deciding whether to go to this movie or not.
 
Heh, Some poor fool on Twitter immediately whined "WHat's next, a blacks-only Black Panther showing?"

Turns out, a lot of black people are all about it XD

But to get serious...

Well, no, I really would go to that showing of Black Panther.

But to the subject, speaking as a guy, I actually love the idea, and I say that without a trace of irony or sarcasm. Let's not pretend that this is anything like the all-white/all-male meetups where guys network, forge business relationships, and so forth. It's a movie, and the first woman superhero movie since...what Elektra or Catwoman?

Some people act like we're two years from the US becoming some reverse-gender Mad Men dystopia or something...
 
johnny karate said:
The only ones making it "political" are the whiny MRA pussies who throw a fit when everything isn't about them all the time.
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Please explain. The only thing that comes to mind when I see MRA is Moral ReArmament - a band of whackos around at the time of my youth (Mary Whitehouse had been one)
 
Noztradamus said:
Please explain. The only thing that comes to mind when I see MRA is Moral ReArmament - a band of whackos around at the time of my youth (Mary Whitehouse had been one)
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No... "Men's Rights something or other".

Think stag retreats and drum circles. Very bizzare IMO.
 
Men's Rights Activists.

Face it, men are the only minority the world can make fun of anymore.

And fathers need some help in child custody, things are very unbalanced there.

But back on OP, I was expecting something like a women only gym, where the women can act catty without men learning that they are just as 'frat boy' as the boys.
 
casebro said:
But back on OP, I was expecting something like a women only gym, where the women can act catty without men learning that they are just as 'frat boy' as the boys.
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I suspect that's not their primary motivation. :(

Enjoy any good drum circles lately? :rolleyes:
 
I demand to see things I am being prevented from seeing because I have a conceptual penis.
 
Imagine if they had made it a "Men Only" screening.

The concession stand would have had to provide a lot of extra napkins.
 
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