Teenager-Doxxer Site Daily Beast: Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell Is Effective At Portraying the Real-Life Abuses of the FBI and Media, So I Hate Its Guts for Attacking My Religion

Despite the Teenager-Doxxing site Daily Beast admitting that it hates a good film precisely because it accurately tells the tale of the FBI and media combining to attack and slander a perfectly innocent man, the rest of the #Woke critics are pretty much giving the movie high marks.

Here's the Hollywood Reporter, for example, in what John Sexton calls a "largely positive review:"

Most Hollywood films about journalism since All the President's Men 43 years ago have taken the free press' side, portraying it as a scruffy if noble institution essential to the well-being of democracy. Eastwood and screenwriter Billy Ray (The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips) here take a rather different view of the Fourth Estate, portraying it as reckless, corrupt and immoral.

It opens Friday. Trailer below, as well as the trailer for Black Widow.

And here's the trailer for Black Widow. I don't like Marvel or Disney, and I don't want to promote this.

But I'm posting it to make one point: Compare this trailer to the one for Charlie's Angels.

One movie makes a fetish out of saying Girls Can Do Anything and Girls Rule, Boys Drool. The other doesn't say anything like that, but simply portrays women as highly competent (and, here, highly dangerous) without attempting the #DarkMarketing ploy of weaponizing identity politics.

One is going to make a lot of money, and the other one is losing something like $50 million on a $50 million budget.

Men don't hate "strong women."

Men hate Jezebel and empty-headed, insipid Twitter Feminism Screeds rewritten into movie scripts.

One of these movies seems to take it as a given that women can be strong, so it doesn't have to argue for the point nor congratulate itself for realizing it.

And one of these movies seems to actually think women are not strong at all, but actually very weak, and so feels the need to overcompensate, shrieking "WAMENS ARE STRONG, H8RZ!!!"

But methinks the lady doth protest too much.

So which of these is actually pro-woman?

If women really are "strong" -- and some certainly are -- do they really require this much propagandizing in their favor and emotional validation and bubble-wrap protection? Are they women or eight-year-old girls in need of a pep talk?

Strong, confident people don't feel the need to enter every room yelling "I AM STRONG AND CONFIDENT!"

They're strong and confident enough to know that people get that.

They're also wise enough to realize that people tend to feel threatened by people with strength, so they play their strength down, not up.

Insecure weaklings, on the other hand, do feel the need to constantly argue with the patriarchical structure called "Reality."

posted by Ace of Spades at 06:03 PM

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