When the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas announced they would be holding a few women-only showings of the upcoming Wonder Woman movie, the angry dudes of the internet all cried “foul” at once.
And when one bold man — a conservative journalist by the name of Stephen Miller — bought a ticket for one of these women-only showings, and announced on Twitter he fully intended to attend, darnit, these men knew they had found their Rosa Parks. Only white. And a dude. And not even slightly oppressed by any reasonable definition of the term.
Still, the angry dudes took to Twitter to share their thoughts. Well, their thought. They all seemed to have the exact same one, and they haven’t gotten tired of repeating it yet.
Why can't the little old colored lady just sit at the back of the bus? Why spoil it for the rest of the passengers?
— D.W.Robinson – ANTI UTOPIAN KILLJOY (@_DWRobinson) May 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/HJWallEcon/status/868884787674714114
https://twitter.com/The_Raving_Dave/status/868875305179648004
https://twitter.com/iTheHammer/status/868737884718804993
https://twitter.com/DNCScreeching/status/868691882364215296
https://twitter.com/Sunniedlt/status/868680535274647552
https://twitter.com/LedgerTBalance/status/868629911891845120
https://twitter.com/iTheHammer/status/868650755426615297
I doubt it but I'd lay money on it you'd tell Rosa to sit in the back of the bus.
— postwarO27 (@postwarO27) May 27, 2017
Sure, just like it's totally legit to require black ppl to sit at back of the bus, still being accommodated, right?
— (((David Maggard))) (@drm31415) May 28, 2017
"separate but equal"
"back of the bus, front of the bus- what's the big deal?"
"plenty of other lunch counters nearby"
— Howard Roark (@shortwave8669) May 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/BrothLGregarius/status/868377666474319872
https://twitter.com/HJWallEcon/status/868477154094395392
Why doesn't Rosa Parks go sit in the back of the bus? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
— (((Captain Ratio Hornblower))) (@jwvansteenwyk) May 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/socjusredguard/status/868487969576951808
Why didn't Rosa Parks just sit on the back of the bus?
— Hillbilly-Redneck (@CondorXXCondor) May 27, 2017
It's just one bus. One seat. In the back of the bus. Exclusion is exclusion. Opposite of diversity. No need. Principle. Stand for it.
— Steve G (@steveg1425) May 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/mangokitten266/status/868509314666831872
Any discrimination is bad. Would it be ok if I only made black ppl ride at the back of the bus once a day?
— noteasybeinggreen (@scooterthefrog) May 27, 2017
and rosa parks could have moved to the back of the bus, it's not like they told her to get off.
— The Tiger Dog (@TigerDogB) May 27, 2017
Ya, and besides the seats at the back of the bus are just the same. Some ppl just don't know their place, amiright?!?
— (((David Maggard))) (@drm31415) May 27, 2017
It's almost as bad as complaining about having to sit at the back of the bus. What an uppity man!
— Sonic (@MrSonicAdvance) May 27, 2017
"The seats at the back of the bus are just as comfortable as the ones at the front, so what's the problem?"
— Nathan In SoCal (@NATHANINSOCAL) May 27, 2017
"You're not being discriminated against, Mrs Parks. There are plenty of other available seats on the back of the bus."
— STUTTERFLY. 🇲🇽 (@SSTUTTERFLY) May 28, 2017
I don't know, which one bothered black people who had to sit at the back of the bus and use separate water fountains?
— The Tiger Dog (@TigerDogB) May 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/ANINDAUK/status/868595396288839681
I jacked off in the back of the bus not too long ago
— Mathew (@Azthetic_) May 26, 2017
Er, sorry about that last one. I don’t think that dude is talking about the Wonder Woman movie at all.
They just love to ignore women’s boundries, don’t they?
Whover is educating white dudes in history needs to improve their skills considerably.
Really? You’re just like a black woman who stood up to Jim Crow laws and armed police because you won’t stay out of a women’s only viewing of a movie you didn’t even want to see?
Power differentials, how the fuck do they work?
I can’t believe they haven’t compared it to a witchhunt or a lynching yet.
do these assholes sincerely believe their experiences compare to those of black people living under jim crow laws, or do they just think it’s a convenient bludgeon? i can’t decide which option is more reprehensible.
Shorter entire Twitter thread:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/sam.gif
Quick daily reminder that Claudette Colvin was a black woman who get arrested for sitting in the front seats of a bus, but wasn’t publicized by the local civil rights leaders because she was darker in complexion and described as ‘loud’ and ‘feisty’. She was also pregnant as a teenager and therefore the NAACP had misgivings about publicizing her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
@Fran
The NAACP did make the correct choice. And how fuckin sad is that?
They’re like a child who when they find out the classmate they’ve been bullying is have a birthday party they say “I don’t want to go to your stupid party and the other kid says “Good because you’re not invited” the bully start acting like they’re being treated unfairly and demands to be invited.
@Axe
BIGLY sad.
Also, I’m dark-skinned and pretty feisty though not v. loud, sooo I guess this trash can is my new house now.
http://i.imgur.com/MMAwcvl.jpg
pic related, it’s me in my house
You know, looking at the panel David used as the title image, does anyone else think it seems odd? Why does Aphrodite have a law banning men? Shouldn’t it be Artemis’ Law? Any classicist mammotheers want to weigh in?
Right? Remember with Ghostbusters when they kept making the argument, “what if we took [movie cast with women] and rebooted it with all men?” and we were like, “that’s not really the same, because you already have that in 80% of the movies out there, but okay, knock yourself out”? They just don’t get it.
I’m one of the few people I know who actually belongs to an all-male group.
Two, if you count my family (two fathers, two sons). I’m also a Mason. This society/culture does not suffer from a lack of male-only spaces. In some areas, it may be suffering from a surfeit. I don’t think that these cholmondeleys would be welcome at my lodge, because constant carping about Deez Wimmins is considered conduct unbecoming. In fact, none of the brothers has ever expressed misogynistic sentiments in my hearing.
@Robert
B-b-but Masons (and Jews) are responsible for the gynocracy !
So there, gotcha.
@Bakunin:
Yes, it should be Artemis…and would make more sense, too, if Wonder Woman’s muggle name was Diana Prince, since Diana was Artemis’s Roman analogue. No idea why Aphrodite was in charge there, but hey! Even love goddesses gotta have their space from time to time, I guess.
I’m in all-male spaces all the time.
Often we’re plotting to build some wonderful thing that everyone in the world will love and it’ll make millions, and I look around and go: oops. We did it again. All white men. Trying to build something for the world.
Honestly, i dont understand how this people can be so angry about this. Nothing taken from them. They can still see wonder woman, they can even take their wife or girlfriend (not that they probably in a relationship). Do they get angry when women have women only football team? Or do they complain when women try to ask for mixed team? Cos seem like this way to me! One day they complain women coming to ‘male spaces’ and taking work of men, then next day they complain women having their own space not for men. Херня.
Honesty they just want control women and keep them in very specific place and that all. But they cant say that so they just complaining when women do anything. Because if they realise women are actual human beings who can make a choices then maybe their head will explode.
Goddamn, so many comedy geniuses all coming up with this one witty rejoinder on their own, to whom do we award the Trophy For Unassailable Wisdom
@Fran
http://lolsnaps.com/upload_pic/bb4e30f2-some-inspirational-words-from-wscar-the-grouch.jpg
@kupo
Like, can I just say I’d totally watch a remake of Charlie’s Angels where the angels were dudes? Cos I would…
“For fuck’s sake, take a deep breath and think about what you’re getting so mad about. A few screenings for women, you gigantic crybaby.”
Thank you, Patrick Smith.
The longer I live and experience things, the more female-only spaces seem essential. Especially if trans women are welcome too. Sometimes I really cannot feel comfortable around men if I don’t know they’re familiar with feminism. Conversely, majority-female groups put me at ease.
I was checking to see if anyone mentioned Colvin. Thanks for doing so. I was reading about her recently for my African American history class.
Word.
What annoys me the most is that the right wing media is trying to sell this story as “feminists going insane over a man buying a ticket”.
I saw a few tweets by irritated women but no one “losing their minds” over this.
On the other side the reaction from men was pretty strong but of course the rw media is never going to address THAT.
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“Men being excluded from a limited-time event in a private venue, is exactly the same as the systemic oppression of an entire race enforced with the full might of the state and extensive vigilante action!”
Your logical fallacy is False Equivalence, dudes. Holy shit.
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These types of guys complain when women have their own spaces and then complain when women are in “their” spaces. It’s not even a big thing, it’s temporary in select theaters. How ~~~”’revolutionary””~~ for them to buy tickets to an event just to spite women because they’re women.
http://i.imgur.com/5qoXSBx.gif
It’s a joy to see Kumail Nanjiani mock these assholes.
Other than that: this kind of behavior makes me ashamed to be a cis-het white guy – it really, really does.
Not being catered to in every instance is easily the most petty “first world problem” imaginable. Safe spaces or a women-only screening of Wonder Woman are minute in comparison to all the media and institutions that largely cater to cis-het white guys, yet they’ll act as if those things don’t exist the moment they hear about some group or venue not being open to them. They never seem to consider that they’re taking all those things for granted and the reason for that is because their being catered more than any other group is basically the norm. It’s almost as if they’re so untroubled and bored in their lives that the moment they can self-victimize about a perceived sleight to their existence, they won’t shut the fuck up about it.
It wouldn’t be surprising if these were the same kind of people who’d demand that a domestic abuse shelter for women should also allow men, despite the fact it’s women-only for good reason. Will they put in any effort to, say, starting a domestic abuse shelter for men? That rarely seems to be the case – they simply assume it should be others, feminists especially, who should do all the heavy-lifting while they just sit around and ironically complain about others being lazy.
I can’t help but want to yell at them: Get. The. Fuck. Over. Your. Selves.
Other people have the right, to varying degrees, to associate with who they want and no group is obligated to invite you in just ’cause. It isn’t like there aren’t thousands of other places that you can saunter into and feel welcome the moment you enter. This weird need to be invited into gatherings where they aren’t allowed comes off as an incredibly petulant form of entitlement. It’s less about having a genuine interest in being part of these groups, than it is about being validated by others who you assume should be subservient to your needs and wants at all times.