Until recently, Michael Calleri was a movie reviewer for the Niagara Falls Reporter. Indeed, he’d been reviewing movies for the weekly paper for more than 20 years. But then the paper got sold to a new owner, and Calleri found that many of the reviews he sent in weren’t making their way into print. He contacted the new publisher, who was also the new editor, and after several surreal conversations and a number of emails, he received this explanation from his new boss:
i have a deep moral objection to publishing reviews of films that offend me. snow white and the huntsman is such a film. when my boys were young i would never have allowed them to go to such a film for i believe it would injure their developing manhood. if i would not let my own sons see it, why would i want to publish anything about it?
Yeah, I think we can all see where this is going.
snow white and the huntsman is trash. moral garbage. a lot of fuzzy feminist thinking and pandering to creepy hollywood mores produced by metrosexual imbeciles.
I don’t want to publish reviews of films where women are alpha and men are beta.
where women are heroes and villains and men are just lesser versions or shadows of females.
i believe in manliness.
not even on the web would i want to attach my name to snow white and the huntsman except to deconstruct its moral rot and its appeal to unmanly perfidious creeps.
i’m not sure what headhunter has to offer either but of what I read about it it sounds kind of creepy and morally repugnant.
with all the publications in the world who glorify what i find offensive, it should not be hard for you to publish your reviews with any number of these.
they seem to like critiques from an artistic standpoint without a word about the moral turpitude seeping into the consciousness of young people who go to watch such things as snow white and get indoctrinated to the hollywood agenda of glorifying degenerate power women and promoting as natural the weakling, hyena -like men, cum eunuchs.
Dude,”eunuch” is not the preferred nomanclature. Mangina-American, please.
Oh, but the new boss made clear that he was open to some sorts of reviews from Calleri:
If you care to write reviews where men act like good strong men and have a heroic inspiring influence on young people to build up their character (if there are such movies being made) i will be glad to publish these.
i am not interested in supporting the reversing of traditional gender roles.
i don’t want to associate the Niagara Falls Reporter with the trash of Hollywood and their ilk.
it is my opinion that hollywood has robbed america of its manliness and made us a nation of eunuchs who lacking all manliness welcome in the coming police state. …
In short i don’t care to publish reviews of films that offend me.
if you care to condemn the filmmakers as the pandering weasels that they are…. true hyenas.
i would be interested in that….
So, yeah, apparently the Niagara Falls Reporter is now being edited by a barely literate misogynist who seems like he just stepped out of the comments section of The Spearhead.
You can read the rest of Calleri’s story over at the Chicago Sun-Times.
(Thanks to several alert Man Boobz readers for pointing me to this story.)
But remember! The MRM is the true equality movement!
Well. I guess buying the paper is one way for a person like that to become an editor. Hope he intends to hire other people to do the actual editing.
Yup. That’ll last…
How the fuck did this guy become an editor? In typical MRA fashion, he cannot write.
Nice Lebowski reference, David.
Question – what does angry sexist dude have against capitalization? I could understand it in a text message, but in email?
To be fair, there’s a disturbing trend in recent releases.
@cassandrasays
i normally see that in like a hipster-y/tumblr-y context
u use line breaks instead of punctuation too
works 4 me
it’s tricky to explain the #aesthetic
but seeing it from creepy uber-conservative canadian dudes (they have those? :o) skeeves me the heck out
i would actually post hell of man boobz comments like this but i get the feeling it’d be just a little 2cool4school
#eecummingswave
Tee hee!
/is twelve (and a boy)
also i’ve seen sharculese post like that
but yeah from old sexist conservative *newspaper editor* dude its weird
broken shift key? too much angry caps-shouting?
What makes it odd is that they also tend to capitalize things that don’t need to be capitalized, like Feminists and how we’re oppressing The Movement.
Also that it’s a business email. Sending something with no caps to a friend? Whatever, np. Sending it to an employee?
I know journalism’s meant to be a dying art and all, but I didn’t realize it was already on its deathbed. I hope his resume at least was better written than that.
Yeah, our Prime Minister is one. But I think this particular Niagara Falls publication is in the US.
Teh Stoopid, it burns. Whiny and childish much? Get over yourself. Your paper your rules? Wah wah wah movies don’t show the Manly Men you want to see, but instead reflect popular tastes? How unreasonable. We only publish reviews of manly movies, not what’s actually showing. Clint Eastwood maybe? Or maybe reviews of old John Saxon movies. That’ll bring in the readers fer sher.
Asshole.
You want to see childish?
I’ll show you childish, but with style:
WOW. Fortunately for that guy, if there’s one field that you can buy your way into without having a clue what you’re doing and still succeed, it’s print journalism!
@Unimaginative
I’d manage to forget about him in the process of pretending Canada’s just a colder and more sensible USA. Also forgot about Niagara Falls being right on the border. Mea culpa.
Okay, since this is now vaguely on topic (alpha women and beta men), I’m going to talk about one of my favorite fantasy series, the Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells. It’s a series where the main character is a man from a species that is matriarchal and has a social structure like ants or bees crossed with lions, and part of his problem fitting in is his not fitting some of the gender roles, but Jade is still kind of the more aggressive one in his relationship. There are a lot of badass women. A LOT of badass women. (I think Malachite is awesome.)
The Raksura are also all bisexual and poly, which really comes out in the third book (which came out early and I just got which is why I’m talking about this). Anyway, I thought more Manboobzers would like it.
There are a couple of free short stories here: http://www.marthawells.com/compendium/
“The Forest Boy” and “Adaptation” take place before the first book and don’t really spoil too much (“The Forest Boy” not at all).
Thanks for the article. Niagara Falls Reporter is now on my favorites list! I’ll look to them for trustworthy review from now on. 🙂
He forgot to mention Precious Bodily Fluids.
I… have a hard time believing that one can’t find movies with strong male characters. Not sure what theater this guy is frequenting.
Though I must admit that I’m surprised at his knowledge of hyenas. They are matriarchal.
But I might be giving him too much credit. Maybe he just saw them in The Lion King and thought they were lame…
One of the curious things is that the publisher forbids all reviews, not just positive reviews, of these films. If he hates that stuff so much, you’d expect him to publish reviews saying so, but no.
So basically his intention is to run one movie review every few months? That’ll work well in terms of format.
I don’t even know wtf he was going on about; from what I heard that movie was a shitpile of Kyriarchy garbage.
@Quiet Wolf
I have a hard time thinking of ones with male characters, described as ‘strong’ but that may be because of the way the fictional media industry works, it’s like someone talking about ‘striped tabby cats’.