All Female "Lord of the Flies" Miffs some Folks

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All Female "Lord of the Flies" Miffs some Folks

Post by Forty Two » Thu Aug 31, 2017 7:41 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08 ... int-women/

Issues raised include:

1. Two men wrote the screenplay, featuring an all girl group of stranded kids. That's apparently a problem.

2. Feminists claim that the writers misunderstand the story, which they say was written in the 1950s about "toxic masculinity," and, of course, girls would never act that way...

Seems like an interesting concept, but, of course, they're playing with fire, because if they change the events that occur, and have the girls behaving characteristically different than the boys in the story, then they will without a doubt be accused of stereotyping female behavior. You can do that with men and get away with it, but with women, there will be hell to pay from the feminists. If the girls behave like the boys, then it will be portrayed as making the girls out to be worse, and if the girls are made to behave differently than the boys in the story, then they'll be accused of stereoptyping girlish behavior and especially girlish bad behavior.

Then, of course, there will be the complaints from the trans folks, who will point out that just because the girls are "assigned at birth because of their genitals" that doesn't make them girls, so some of the girls in the story may well be boys, or nonbinary, even though they all have vaginas.

They'll probably make money just from the uproar, so it's probably a good business move.
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Post by JimC » Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:12 pm

My only irritation is that it is being called "Lord of the Flies" when it has only a tenuous and artistically inauthentic connection to the original book.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:52 pm

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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:00 pm

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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:57 am

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Post by laklak » Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:31 am

I don't care what gender they are as long as they KILLTHEPIG!
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Post by devogue » Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:48 am

The average woman is far more aggressive than the average man.

For instance, Susie on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Post by JimC » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:16 am

The main danger would occur after they hit puberty, and the periods started to synch...

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Post by Tyrannical » Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:21 am

Ah, it's that common female problem of disassociating fantasy and reality. My ex-wife used to use sitcoms as proof that she was right about something. I don't know what, I didn't listen lol
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:59 am

Once again the American are going to knacker the story again.
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Post by Hermit » Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:39 am

Tyrannical wrote:My ex-wife used to use sitcoms as proof that she was right about something. I don't know what, I didn't listen lol
Sitcoms suffice to prove you wrong every time. In fact, they're ideal. Pitched at a lowenough level for you to comprehend something - if only you were listening.


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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:50 am

Ever watched sitcoms in different languages. English is one of the worst. In Dutch they sound almost normal. In German quite formal. In Spanish it is listening to machine guns firing the whole time.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:20 am

Tyrannical wrote:Ah, it's that common female problem of disassociating fantasy and reality. My ex-wife used to use sitcoms as proof that she was right about something. I don't know what, I didn't listen lol
There's quite a number of studies that have shown changing a woman's name for a man's name on the same job application results in greater interviews for the male applications. Probably fake news.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:22 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:Ever watched sitcoms in different languages. English is one of the worst. In Dutch they sound almost normal. In German quite formal. In Spanish it is listening to machine guns firing the whole time.
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Post by Animavore » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:10 am

This is a fucking news story? Some women Tweeted?

This is what keeps right-wingers up at night. Not Nazis. Not Christians trying to destroy civil rights. Not a brutal shift of wealth to the top one percent. Not environmental destruction. Or collapse of species. Or massive property damage and civilian casualty due to climate change. Not a corrupt and incompetent White House. Not 22 million people thrown off health insurance.

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