Reasons I Think MRAs Hate Wonder Woman - A Noncomprehensive List

Friday, June 9, 2017

Now that I've actually seen the Wonder Woman movie - which was fucking awesome, by the way - I think I'm informed enough to speculate on why Men's Rights Advocates (MRAs) hate this movie with the fire of a thousand burning suns. Here we go:

1. MRAs have a problem with Copernicus. It is their belief that the entire universe revolves around them, or at least it should, and they truly can't understand why this movie doesn't. To make matters worse, when they try to make it about them, the ladiez (and a great number of men) are rolling their eyes, laughing in their faces, and merrily flooding the box office with ticket sales to this fabulous movie.

2. The Wonder Woman character refuses to apologize for being a woman. Her attitude is more like, "Why does anyone care that I'm a woman?" Historically, strong female characters had to justify their strength to their male compatriots, ensuring they don't bruise the tender egos of the menfolk. Wonder Woman doesn't do that, and doesn't understand why she should. Fuckin' A, Diana of Themyscira.

3. The Wonder Woman character was not written as "broken." She's an amazing warrior because she came of age in a warrior culture, and worked hard to become amazing. There's no hidden motivation regarding a man, her desire to get revenge, her overwhelming desire to have a child of her womb, or whatever. She's just a badass. And we all know that being a fully whole badass is a state solely reserved for the menfolk.

4. Gal Gadot is not be trifled with. She was an Israeli Defense Force Combat Instructor. In preparation for this role she took swordsmanship, Kung Fu kickboxing, capoeira, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu training. She did all her own stunts for the Fast and the Furious franchise. She did the reshoots for Wonder Woman while five months pregnant with her second child. She's been happily married for almost nine years. She and her husband are richy, rich, rich. AND she was 2004's Miss Israel. So she's smart, stable, accomplished, gifted, strong, rich, beautiful, and she doesn't give a good goddamn when MRAs think about her or her movie. Intimidating much, Ms. Gadot? YES YOU ARE, SISTER, AND GOOD FOR YOU.

5. Wonder Woman is a morally and physically superior being. This should not be a surprise, after all - she's a demigod, for fuck's sake. But apparently only male demigods (like Thor, for example) are allowed to be superior to men. Not uppity Amazons with a penchant for love and justice.

6. Many MRAs believe this movie was made solely to make the DC Universe politically correct. Apparently that domestic opening weekend haul of over $103M - exceeding Dr. Strange, Iron Man, and Thor - is just a coincidence. Because really, what studios are REALLY interested in is being politically correct and inclusive, not making money. Amirite, ladiez?

7. Wonder Woman is getting great reviews, both from the masses (93% on Rotten Tomatoes) and from professional movie critics. That there is a hard pill to swallow, I imagine, after all the vitriol expended on its irrelevance and accusations of kowtowing to the femi-nazis.

SUCK IT, MRAs. Wonder Woman is the feminist icon of our time, and she is AMAZING. 

5 comments:

Eric said...

"Many MRAs believe this movie was made solely to make the DC Universe politically correct."

I just have to highlight the special stupidity of that one. Wonder Woman is and has been a part of DC's "Trinity"--the three oldest and least-changed, least-rebooted, possessed of the longest continuity superheroes in the DC stable. The question for comics fans for several decades now has been why a Wonder Woman movie wasn't made in the wake of the success of Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie (1978) or Tim Burton's Batman (1989). (Need I even mention that the excuses offered by Warner reeked of sexism on the one hand and a general cluelessness about how to manage and market their intellectual property on the other?)

MRAs claiming that Warner is being "politically correct" by finally, eventually, belatedly making a feature film version of one of their oldest and most recognized characters is pretty ignorant even by their low standards. At least if it's taken at face value. I mean, I can't help suspecting that the jackasses are perfectly aware Wonder Woman has been one of DC's biggest properties since before WWII, and that they're willfully ignoring the fact because they're douchebags and knocking "political correctness" plays well in certain douchebag quarters.

Eric said...

You knew all of that. I just needed to rant. Sorry. I'm irritable today and have no patience for mouthbreathers like the MRA crowd. I apologize if it came off as a mansplaination.

Janiece said...

No apology needed. Always interested in your thoughts. The douchenozzles make men look bad.

Nathan said...

I think you're already giving MRAs too much credit. They, like "persecuted" American Christians, White Supremecists, and (somebody, sombody, gazpacho, I forget), believe that when ANYone else is acknowledged, it has to come at their expense. Therefore, it needs to be bitched about.

If they weren't so noisy and dangerous, they'd be best ignored.

Janiece said...

You said it, Nathan.

Waa! I may have to give up some of my unearned privilege in order for others to have the same opportunities and options that I take for granted!

YOU'RE PERSECUTING ME, MAN.