[EdnaMode]

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?

[Telepathic Intruder]

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.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Indeed.

White and gay.

[BBell]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

How many of them are fags?

[Old Yeller]

And live theatre is mostly gay men.

[ExpatCanuck]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

>>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?

[a fool in paradise]

>> 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”?

[a fool in paradise]

>>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.

[FrankR]

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.

[Popman]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

Couldn’t care less what critics say because I don't attend films.So they can be any color,gender,species...their opinions are still worthless to me.

[livius]

Oh the horror.That said, these “white men” seem to spend most of their time promoting movies that would have them hanging from nooses. They’re trying to curry favor with a lobby more powerful than they.

Most of them are extreme leftists and naively believe that they can control the monster they have created.

After all, they’re movie critics or actors or both...but what does that matter in reality world when the left is coming after you? Nuttin’.

[Blue Collar Christian]

The only movie critics I ever respected where on “In Living Color”.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Then they are self-hating white guys.

Who listens to these pretentious blow-hards anyway?

[upchuck]

Flash: Among American citizen males, white males are a majority. And???

[Trillian]

Leftist women don’t know when to stop bitching. They are never happy.

[tbw2]

Another possibility: the Mommy bloggers reviewing kid movies and discussing it with each other were ignored by this study.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Because feminists think modern Hollywood productions are all documentaries. :)

[alexander_busek]

Isn't it possible that they are more white men interested in being movie critics than anyone else?

In today's world, the only possible answer is: No, because - RACISM!

And the only possible solution is: Quotas.

Regards,