“Unmasking the Bias: 60 Iconic Films That Missed Women’s Perspectives in Their Storytelling”
Last week, a person who goes online by the nickname Embarrassed-Toe-1920 made a post on the subreddit r/TwoXChromosomes, asking everyone to list movies that made them feel as if the writers’ room didn’t have a single woman during production.
“This weekend I watched Just Go With It with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, and I was DISGUSTED by the storyline,” the Redditor said in their post. “Rich 50-something plastic surgeon with few redeemable qualities dates [a] 25-year-old and then realizes he’s in love with his middle-aged assistant and leaves [the] 25-year-old for [the] assistant. That’s literally the whole movie.”
Embarrassed-Toe-1920 added that the movie felt like a man’s fantasy and a woman’s nightmare and invited others to list titles that had a similar vibe.
I love many movies that Ryan Gosling is in, but in The Notebook (2004), the character threatening s***ide (or at least a broken neck and bones) if Rachel McAdams won’t date him has got to be one of the more disgusting coercive interactions in a mainstream movie that only a bunch of men in the writers room (and a male novelist) could think of as “romantic”. Truly messed up stuff.
Another Adam Sandler movie – Blended. Overall kind of a cute but dumb movie. But there’s this one scene where leading lady is helping him pick out tampons for his daughter and basically explains he needs to get small ones because of her small v*gina. They extend it further by having the checkout lady make an awkward comment about the days when she could use those.
When cringe meets misinformation…
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