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Movie Critics Are Mostly White Men, Study Shows
Variety ^ | June 10, 2018 | Brent Lang

Posted on 06/12/2018 6:45:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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Isn't it possible that they are more white men interested in being movie critics than anyone else? Just like there are a lot more black players in the NBA and NFL than white players?
1 posted on 06/12/2018 6:45:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

It’s not my fault if non-whites don’t comment as much as me. Maybe they should speak out instead of me shutting up.


2 posted on 06/12/2018 6:47:47 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: EdnaMode

Indeed.

White and gay.


3 posted on 06/12/2018 6:48:06 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: EdnaMode
Even films like “Girls Trip” and “Wonder Woman” that highlighted female protagonists and attracted audiences that were disproportionately female were still primarily reviewed by men.

I guess it's time to bring in critics that correlate to the movie in ethnicity and gender. All other reviews should be discounted.

4 posted on 06/12/2018 6:49:50 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: EdnaMode

I left out sexual orientation. Can’t forget that.


5 posted on 06/12/2018 6:51:03 PM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: EdnaMode

How many of them are fags?


6 posted on 06/12/2018 6:53:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: BBell

Maybe fewer women and nonwhites want to write reviews.


7 posted on 06/12/2018 6:56:11 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: BBell

Time was women and homosexual men were the prominent film critics and buffs decades ago. It forever perverted and stunted the concept of what “classic” films were.

Later in the early 1960s other film societies (in Europe and revival screenings in America) started to explore horror films and defend that such genre pictures TOO could be classics (and Freaks went from being a banished MGM film sold to exploiter Dwain Esper in the 40s to a “Classic” that MGM claims to own again even though they sold it and dumped the negative in the ocean and screen it today with Esper’s additional exploitative opening reel).


8 posted on 06/12/2018 6:57:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Men on Film

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWdL9mrYNmQ


9 posted on 06/12/2018 6:58:25 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: cymbeline

Village Voice Media is all about Social Justice Warriors telling you why a movie will send you to “heaven or hell” like an atheist’s version of the old Catholic Legion of Decency film reviews.

Roger Ebert likewise after Gene Siskel was dead decided to go full tilt libtard in his assessment of seeing or rejecting a film.


10 posted on 06/12/2018 6:59:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: EdnaMode

And live theatre is mostly gay men.


11 posted on 06/12/2018 6:59:45 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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Most Olympic swimmers are white. This is outrageous. Most jockeys are white! Outrageous! Maybe at basketball players and football players are whi... uh, never mind.


12 posted on 06/12/2018 7:00:33 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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>>White critics wrote 82% of the reviews of the top 100-grossing films of last year

What was the racial background of 82% of the ticket buyers for the top 100 grossing films last year?


13 posted on 06/12/2018 7:01:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: Old Yeller

Yeah exactly.


14 posted on 06/12/2018 7:01:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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>> U.S. census data finds that individuals from these groups comprise nearly 39% of the population.

Is that including tens of millions of non-citizen latinos?

Also for the purpose of this exercise are they rejecting the notion of “white hispanic”?


15 posted on 06/12/2018 7:02:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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>>Manohla Dargis at the New York Times, Dana Stevens of Slate, and Alison Wilmore of BuzzFeed are all considered to be top voices in their field and are regarded as major tastemakers.

WHO? WHAT? WHERE??

I would NEVER trust Buzzfeed for advice on politics, food, arts, or culture.

Slate?

NYet Times is stodgy but at least has almost a century of film reviews to dig through.


16 posted on 06/12/2018 7:04:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: EdnaMode

Women and people of color can also be movie critics. All they need is:

The desire to be a movie critic.
Some semblance of qualification to be a movie critic.
Someone to accept their movie critiques.
Someone willing to publish them.
Be credible enough to continue getting the support.

If *white men* are the only ones with the moxie to fulfill all those basic requirements, then so be it.


17 posted on 06/12/2018 7:06:44 PM PDT by FrankR (If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah men is a stretch


18 posted on 06/12/2018 7:07:51 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Telepathic Intruder

A piece by a Feminazi at Northeastern was on FR today and she said that men (especially white heterosexual men) need to step aside, refuse jobs, and essentially go to the back of the bus for the rest of their lives to atone for thousands of years of patriarchy culture.

sit down and shut up and pay your taxes


19 posted on 06/12/2018 7:08:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: EdnaMode

Is the point of this nonsense white men sku the reviews ?

maybe just maybe your regular Joe ticket buyers don’t care what reviewers think and see movies that interest them?

I can’t think the last time I read a reveiw from anybody of any color, gender


20 posted on 06/12/2018 7:09:55 PM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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