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.
@Misophistry:
It’s a test of both brain and brawn! Hell, just imagine a match between Gina Carano and Ronda Rousey – pretty much be, like, one of the the best things ever…
But, yeah, Enki Bilal is a fantastic artist. Just about every panel in his comics would make for a nice art print to put on your wall. They’re from “Cold Equator”, the third and last installment of the Nikopol Trilogy, which is often cited as being the inspiration for the actual sport.
@ NickNameNick,
My guilty pleasure is watching Spike TV’s Ink Master, and I find it hilarious how upset some of the (inevitably male) tattooers get about being critiqued. They’ll be ranting and raving about how they are great artists, and how dare the judges say their lines weren’t straight, and they’re gonna fight for their place in the competition.
And I’m sat on my couch thinking Dude, if you’d worried less about bullshit alliances and puffing your chest out, and more about making your damn lines straight, you wouldn’t be up for elimination. I know nothing about tattooing and I can see your damn lines aren’t straight. Grow up.
Meanwhile the women tattooers are rolling their eyes and just getting on with tattooing. And when they’re told their lines aren’t straight, they accept the criticism and try to do better next time.
@Tosca
I noticed a similar behaviour watching the show “NY Ink”. The owner Ami was worried because the tattoo shop wasn’t doing so well and he didn’t know how to solve the problem. The assistant tried to suggest a few ideas to bring the shop back on track and he treated her like shit, trying to silence her without even listening.
And the thing that annoyed me the most is that most followers of the show agreed with him and humiliated her too.
Her ideas were actually pretty good, but of course no one admitted it.
Ah; Bella and the Bulldogs, Mad Max: Fury Road, Ghostbusters, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Hidden Figures, Loving, Beauty and the Beast, Power Rangers, Get Out, Bill Nye Saves the World, Dear White People, The Handmaid’s Tale… Every time I think I’ve ran out of stuff to watch, the Alt-Right helpfully informs me of my viewing itinerary for the next month or so.
Oh, and Far Cry 5. Looks like I’m gonna have to buy that, too.
I could not stand that man – his attitude to women was just awful. Really spoiled whatever Ink programme he was in.
I don’t think that they have explained how this is an infringement of their civil rights – not one tiny little bit.
@Ellesar
True that. I prefered LA Ink much better, less negativity.
Bus Driver: “I’m sorry, Mrs. Parks, but this bus has been rented for a private charity function, and isn’t one of the many operating on regular public transit routes. There’s another bus* available to everyone, coming up behind me, and 28* other buses running on routes not far from here. Also, you’re obviously not Rosa Parks, but a white man in blackface and a dress.”
*Number of other buses reflects the other actual showings for the movie, for the same chain, in Austin. One showing a couple hours after the women-only showings, at the Ritz location, and 28 different showings split amongst the five other locations. That’s just of THAT theatre chain… nevermind all of the other theatres that will be showing it, and with better parking options, bigger theatres, bigger screens, etc (I’ve been told by those in the know that that particular chain location is a smaller, older one with no parking lot of its own).
It must be nice to live in this bubble of privilege where this stuff will never effect you because you were born into a system of gynocentric supremacy. Whatever only effects the “other” you can simply obliviate yourself to.
Going back to the questions about “why is it Aphrodite’s law?” in the Themiscyran sign … I’m not the world’s most knowledgeable Wonder Woman fan, but I do know that early in the run, Artemis wasn’t really one of Diana’s patron goddesses. Hera, yes. Athena, yes. Aphrodite, yes. There’s a line in an early comic where Diana is getting her magic lasso (which at that time was made of chain taken from Hippolyta’s girdle) and the goddesses present it to Diana declaring that she is getting this gift because she has proven herself “bound by love and wisdom.” It may be that Marston thought Artemis wasn’t really the kind of female archetype he was going for at the time, or maybe he just wanted to give the Amazons a holy trinity of their own. Or for all I know, the 3 patron goddesses were the ones suggested by his wife and their live-in lover.
*shrug*
Also, if these guys knew anything about civil rights activism beyond the cliffs notes of the cliffs notes of Rosa Parks and MLK, they’d draw parallels to Viola Desmond, instead, because her challenge to racial segregation literally involved a movie theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond
@chessman
Let your projector burn
Chew your bubblegum of privilege
Let the others be the other
Put your fingers in your ears
La Lala la Lala!
Don’t forget Horizon Zero Dawn!
(Which I have purchased but haven’t gotten around to playing just yet, even though I told myself I’d start once I’d finished all the non-radiant quests in Fallout 4, because I’ve settled into RPing my character’s post-game life like it was actually real. What is wrong with me.)
I am very suprised on the whole thing.
Special Lady Nights or Movies for real men, were somethink that the cinema in my hometown had years ago. Neither “Sex in the City” nor “The Expendables” (can’t remember with part) got that reaction. (That are just the two movies I remember)
The kicker: I would call the part of Germany I live in Progresive.
@Who?
Yes, good point. Cinemas have girls’ nights (and boys’ nights) all the time, as do other venues. I roll my eyes at the whole idea of “chick stuff”, but certainly no one ever raises objections. I guess this one is Wonder Woman, and she doesn’t “belong” to women?
Also, on the “women can’t be atheists” weirdness: Sam Harris (back when I still gave him some attention) was asked at a conference why there were so many more men in atheist and critical thinking circles. His reply was that women weren’t terribly good at being rational or critical.
jk, of course! he insisted.
Speaking of MGTOW, here’s a little pop quiz. Can you guess the source of these quotes?
I don’t know if this is off topic, but we in the UK got the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale last night. It was brilliant but harrowing viewing. As a former member of a Patriarchalist cult it was bang on in so many ways, this is what would happen under White Shariah and the Theocracy. I think America is getting closer to this reality than Britain, but in many ways we are the 53rd state and wouldn’t ne far behind if the Kippers ever have their way. Anyway, I noticed something. I think it was no coincidence casting Joseph Fiennes as Commander Waterford, because as soon as I looked at him I saw Pastor Steven Anderson, the hate preacher, rape apologist and Quiverfull advocate. It seemed to close to reality and scary that this person is an avatar of a real life version of the character.
Here is Pastor Anderson’s mug shot. He’s a monster.
http://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/General/d/4091/268b602e06794019b45e5e29ddbb7642.jpg
Sheesh ! And I thought Wonder Woman was devised for a female audience in the first place !
I’m a little worried that the guy in the header picture looks more like a shipwreck survivor than a ravening invader though…Actaeon reincarnated thinking ‘Oh crap, not again !’
@Virgin Mary
“Brilliant but harrowing” pretty much describes the series, IMO. I have never been able to watch an episode straight through. I always have to stop, do something else to recover, and then finish watching. Sometimes I can’t finish until the next day.
http://www.bluedragonflyfilms.com/images/projector.gif
@Virgin Mary
Speaking of cheerful stories to delight mras everywhere, have you see Three Girls?
I couldn’t watch it; it was pretty unpleasant stuff. My partner isn’t a delicate little snowflake however, and saw it all the way though, and considered it well worth watching.
@Tosca:
Same with women who work in comics. They, moreso than their male counterparts, tend to be more open to and receptive of criticism.
As time goes on, I have a harder time believing (despite being told otherwise over and over again) men are somehow more rational than women when they violently overreact towards such things. Women, on the other hand, tend to keep their composure even when dealing with unwarranted horseshit – though they have every right to not tolerate it.
Certainly doesn’t help society tends to quickly forget any moment a man loses his shit and makes an ass out of himself, whereas a woman doing similar will hover over her like a dark cloud for years. I mean, why else do so many Manospheareans and the like obsess over Chanty Binx while completely ignoring the numerous meltdowns of various male YouTubers they worship?
Methinks there’s a double standard at play!
@Mish:
Ah yes, proof that – like Richard Dawkins – being educated and knowledgeable about a certain subject doesn’t make you less of an unenlightened piece of shit…
I wish I knew who uttered the memorable quote “Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.”