Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The internet loves ridiculing women who slip up, or like Jennifer Lawrence in this case, are maliciously taken out of context for the purpose of ridiculing women
I think some of it is because we love our action women! Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton were fucking AWESOME action stars that were unique, smart and complex; and not just “woman who acts like a douche male” type that most modern poorly written female action stars are.
And IMO they were way better actresses and better written than whatever hunger games was.
Fun fact, the character of Ripley was written for a man, and only once the script was complete did they randomly decide to cast a woman for the part and see what happened.
And yes I completely agree with you. Implications about how Hollywood does things are left as an exercise for the reader.
Doesn’t the internet ridicule everyone who slips up though?
True. There’s certain asymmetry in how internet likes to shit on women. You would have to be blind to not notice
The death threats aren’t because you’re a woman, the death threats are because you’re a parasite and don’t provide anything to society by hogging up housing and keeping it from being affordable. No land lord/lady has ever provided a useful contribution to their community.
I’ve been downvoted for my feminist opinions being unforgiving towards men. I hate you for your job title, not your gender.
The Internet also takes every opportunity to elevate women, warranted or not. I suppose it balances out.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”
I’m curious how you’re gonna spin that as being taken out of context.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
she’s talking about an attitude studios had at the time. you have no evidence that this exact conversation didn’t happen. fuck, you can see right wing babies cry and throw a fit right now whenever they see a woman in the lead of any movie let alone action.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s a pretty piss-poor attempt at an argument. She specifically states nobody had ever cast a woman as an action lead. And as for not having evidence, that fact that she didn’t deny it, and issues an apology tends to imply she didn’t deny fucking say it.
After #MeToo, liberals have over corrected so much that as soon as a woman says anything, you take it as fact. And if that woman is wrong, you twist her words like some MAGA child with Trump to try and make her right all along. It’s absolutely ridiculous. You know it’s ok to admit that sometimes a woman somewhere will say some stupid shit, right?
pyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you completely misread the part about evidence.
you didn’t have to go full MRA but ok that’s a choice I guess
recall519@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
To be fair, I don’t think she meant it literally. I could definitely see how in a conversation she meant little to none which is true.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
OK, but how does what you think matter to what she said? You’re not her.
recall519@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Well, to your point, everyone’s opinion in this post doesn’t matter.