“It’s a female character who happens to be a lead in the movie. Doesn’t need ruined by lefty polticts and feminism.”
False: female characters cannot be RUINED by feminism. We are defined by it.

“Can we stop with the hate of the white male, males in general, and pretending like it’s a outrage a woman isn’t directing a movie….”
It is not the white male himself that we rally against, but his monoply on creating art, even when that art is female-centric and would benefit from a woman’s point of view.

“WHY does a woman need to direct? It makes no sense.”
Because people are still asking this question.

“What does a woman bring besides possibly lefty politics? Nothing more or less a man does.”
False. I repeat: A woman brings the perspective of a woman. Remember when a woman’s perspective saved “Mad Max: Fury Road”, by admission of the screenwriter himself? Tell me you don’t hate Mad Max. Tell me you understand there are a TON of politics in that film. And in Harry Potter. And Star Wars. And Zootopia. And….I don’t think I need to go on.

“This paper provides a commentary regarding the quantitative content analyses of gender roles in media published in the two special issues of Sex Roles (Rudy et al. 2010a, 2011). A few themes and some overarching lessons emerge from the wide variety of data presented. First, it is clear that women are under-represented across a range of media and settings. Second, when women are portrayed, it is often in a circumscribed and negative manner. Women are often sexualized—typically by showing them in scanty or provocative clothing. Women are also subordinated in various ways, as indicated by their facial expressions, body positions, and other factors. Finally, they are shown in traditionally feminine (i.e., stereotyped) roles. Women are portrayed as nonprofessionals, homemakers, wives or parents, and sexual gatekeepers. Although the studies generally support these conclusions, some interesting moderating factors are identified, such as race. It is suggested that next steps involve the development of theory and a body of empirical evidence regarding the effects of exposure to under-representation of women. Data concerning the effects of exposure to sexualized or stereotypical portrayals on young audiences is also lacking. Finally, content analyses of new media, including those created and distributed by users, are recommended as a next step. It is concluded that, while increasing the representation of women in media may be valuable, it is also critical that the manner in which they are portrayed be simultaneously considered to avoid increasing negative or stereotypical depictions that may be particularly harmful to viewers.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-010-9929-5

Yes ignorance is bliss I can see. The escape is for everyone if it’s politically free no? And those two have never been this politically tied and influenced. Never. Just because you agree on those issues do not make them just in doing these things. Males are your audience hun. Girls go with boyfriends or the few that go to the movies, most don’t even know the character or it’s history. Wonder Woman is already a “mess” from what I hear. I don’t see how a woman wouldn’t of, or would have helped. If they hired a woman from the start? Great! But they didn’t. Oversexulizing is even in my view too much if it takes away from the character. It usually does. But that’s not as well why Wonder Woman isn’t going to be that good. People will see
It. But it’s going to be another DC flick that flops with readers. Yes, you are apart of that few percentage of fans who are gay. Why not demand a new character? Instead of demanding change in already set characters? And on Cap, yes he battled with Natzi’s. He’s a Army based character and what else would you have wrote about than? And it’s patriotic? That’s great.

No. They have lost a lot of subscribers, viewers and fired people for different points of view. And becuase people got tired of trying to get away from politicical matters, and ESPN was in your face with whatever Ill informed matter that was in the news cycle. There was NO diversity. Any conservative (there was like 3) who worked there was fired for having such views. Your biased opinions don’t mattter here. The other part of their diemise is the digital media age we live in.

Comics may be influenced in certain ways by our culture. But never has there been a time where it would be a “good idea” to change a popular character into a male or female that was already the opposite gender. Never was there a time where turning captain America gay to please a minority was seriously debated. These are the kinda things that turn off the average person from reading comics. Espically just in the name of PC culture, and pleasing a crowd that’s not even a 3 percent reader percentage of comics. This is why Marvel is having its lowest subscribers in digital and in phycial copies. Nobody want their fav comic character changed for the sake of being PC. Make a new character. Don’t change one of the classics?!? It’s not in your nature I’m sure to see these things as deals. I’m sure, but this is how millions of people think In this country. This biased retheroic and culture views are getting quite old. And people are boycotting. This push for SJW bull in comics may be something
You think is great. But 99 percent of your audience doesn’t think so. There’s people who don’t even read Marvel now. And are strictly DC. The new 52 besides with Harley is pretty clean from today’s issues. And Quinn has always been attracted to both males and females. Comics can be a way to get away from the real world, and can take your mind off of what’s going on. So can sports. But if progressive liberals have their way. It won’t be much longer. But on the original topic of bat girl, id suggest if he wants a good movie, and to actually make a killing off of it.
Making her a third wave feminist, and everyone else afraid of her, instead of her overcoming advirsty like HER ACTUAL STORY is. The movie will flop hardcore. I’m upset, becuase she’s one of mi fav charaters. And people like you are going to make this movie about PC feminist stuff. Instead of about her. Yes, you won’t be directing it, or writing the stuff. But these articles could def influence his directing for the movie.

Sadly you’ve missed the whole point of both comics and what Joss represents. You’ve also largely missed the point of what thos well written article is about. So I’ll break it down for you.

1. Politics and comics go together. I don’t know you, but from your comments I’m going to (rightly or wrongly) assume you are a straight male. I’m not. I’m a gay guy, who for years and years read X-Men. Which is easily read as a gay coded comic. Or at the very least gay under tones. Even the terrible movies got that part right. “Have you tried not being a mutant?” However that could also be MY interpretation as a gay guy.
Captain America fought Nazi’s.
Wonder Woman once liberated a POW camp full of women who were being used as sex slaves.
Animal Man was used to tackle Animal Rights.
Politics and comics have a very long history of being connected. Just because you don’t like it, relate to it or need it doesn’t mean its not true.

2. Whilst I personally think that Joss is a brilliant director and in my opinion he is the ideal director for this movie. I can fully understand why women would want a female director. As men we will never understand things from a female point of view. Im a MASSIVE Wonder Woman fan and even I wanted a female director because simply put, a female director will be less inclined to lean towards overly sexualising the character. Also I wouldn’t say asking for a female director is a bad thing. A female director might understand the character in a way that male readers might not.

3. Escapism in comics, sports and video games is great. But surely that escapism should be for everyone?

I’m not sure if you know this or not, but comic books are a reflection of our society at a given time. Politics have been and will always be an influence on comic books and pop culture.

As far as ESPN, they are not failing because of ‘lefty politics.’ They are losing money because they spend $6 billion a year rights fees. $1.9 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football, $1.47 billion to the NBA, $700 million to Major League Baseball, $608 million for the College Football Playoff, $225 million to the ACC, $190 million to the Big Ten, $120 million a year to the Big 12, $125 million a year to the PAC 12, and hundreds of millions more to the SEC.

I’m sorry, but you’re going to need to get out of your bubble and experience the world.

PS. ‘Point Break’ was directed by a woman.

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