Posted on 12/10/2024 2:39:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
From Wicked and Moana 2 to the record-setting Eras Tour and the pop girlie Grammy sweep, culture for and by women is still fueling the entertainment business
Over the American Thanksgiving weekend, two girl-centric movies about female empowerment – one starring an animated Polynesian teenager and the other a bunch of singing witches – crushed at the box office.
Moana 2, from Walt Disney, had the biggest Thanksgiving Day opening in history. Universal Pictures’ Wicked, which debuted the week prior, set a record for a Broadway-to-screen adaptation. Together, they led the holiday stretch to its best numbers ever. And it was women who drove the results. Moana’s audience was two-thirds female, while Wicked’s opening weekend topped that at 75 per cent. The election might have been won by the manosphere, a collection of “anti-woke” influencers who extol traditional gender norms and hypermasculinity. But the box office results were a reminder that girl culture is still driving large swaths of the economy.
GIRL CULTURE DRIVING THE ECONOMY
And expect demand for it to build during a second Trump administration. Companies should pay attention to a female audience looking for ways to immerse itself in art and entertainment that embraces overtly feminist themes and takes seriously the complexities of being a girl and a woman – precisely because the political sphere will not.
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girl economy is daddy funded, so actually daddy economy
Babylon Bee spoofs Rings of Power.
Lol…there’s no such thing as girl “culture”. Culture is largely produced by men, including these movies. Is there a bunch of pandering to the weaker sex, tellimg them they are “powerful”, sure. Nothing can shake women’s conviction that they are “strong women” until and unless they are badly beaten or worse.
For fifty years the only people it was legal to discriminate against were straight, white males, and discrimination against them was required by law.
Those chickens have come home to roost, and the “Girl Economy” isn’t going to work out very well without them.
First, define girl.
Oh of course. Because no woman or ‘girl’ has ever been an entertainment draw before the GRRRL power divas in the 2020s. Shirly Temple. Ella Fitzgerald. Milla Jovavich. Madonna. Lita Ford. Audry Hepburn. Joann Jett. Donna Summers. Nichelle Nichols. on and on and on.... Yes. There has never been a popular woman EVER until Disney started producing their trash and Taylor Swift made a billion dollars complaining about “patriarchy” holding her back...
lets make women handmaids again.
heh heh thats funny right there. mit den blauen augen bekommen.
Not a bad idea. In our world, we are struggling to reproduce.
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