Does Hollywood HATE Men? 

Whenever a guy says "I'm a feminist, by the way". I almost die of cringe. 😬

Isn't it funny that Hollywood's idea of making "strong female characters" is to make them more like males. I'm not a woman, but isn't that vaguely insulting?

Feminist movies now days feels like I’m watching a divorce case

Hatred of men (misandry) is so common it's invisible. It's like a line from Good Omens: 'she couldn't see it for the same reason someone in Trafalgar Square can't see London'.

The irony of she hulk chick claiming she can control her anger better than Bruce, whilst losing her temper is just wow

"She's so strong and he's so weak" *sigh* Ms. Ridley, do you know what you call a story with a weak villain who is easily beaten by the hero, regardless of their respective genders? You call that a bad story, Daisy. If Kylo Ren is far weaker than Rey, that is a problem, because the job of the villain is to put the hero in danger so that the audience wonders how they will save themselves and ultimately do what seems impossible by beating the villain. See Vader vs. Luke in ESB.

I'm surprised you didn't include the quote from Emily Blunt where she talks about how she actively avoids any movies that mention a strong female character.

Feminism was never about equality, it was always about putting women first by tearing men down.

Han's death in The Force Awakens and Luke's portrayal in The Last Jedi are other glaring examples. Disney writers took a huge dump on those two characters who are arguably some of the most beloved of all time.

Never underestimate a woman’s ability to rationalize bad behavior and avoid all accountability

When it comes to hiring female directors, I think Hollywood has drunken enough of their own Kool-aid to believe that the female director is actually going to make the film better. For no other reason than gender.

So toxic masculinity is abhorrent but toxic feminism is empowering ? So laughable. In regards to True Detective, I punched out in episode 1 when the angry black/eskimo cop told Jodie Foster that if the murdered activist "had been a white girl they would have had the entire state police looking for her white ass". I am done with the trope of the stunning,diverse,brave,badass female character who will undoubtedly solve the crime,save the day,blame the patriarchy & leave a pile of emasculated men in her wake.

The term you are looking for is "Jeff". When the man is incompetent solely to make the woman look good? The most absurd example of this is Spiderwomans boyfriend "Jeff" whose entire purpose was to make Spiderwoman look good by being terrible. This was in the 1970s!!! So many iconic characters have been "Jeff"ed

Not only did they do that in She Hulk but in the comics, Hulk saves she hulk by giving her a blood transfusion of his own blood (which turns her into a hulk). But NO, can't have that in modern Hollywood! She pulls HIM out of a car wreck and gets his blood in her cut in the show lol

It started in sitcoms with the "dumb dad" trope. Like, the husband being bad at domestic stuff is as old as the sitcom itself. They were doing that as far back as Lucy or The Honeymooners. But in those old shows it would usually also show the women trying and failing at the things the men always did. And it ended with renewed mutual respect and appreciation for what each one did. Then some time in the 90s it became: Mom was good at everything, Dad was good at nothing.

This resentment towards males is bleeding into everything. We are having a baby and are frequently on the What To Expect app and the amount of women who are posting threads about being sad/disappointed/devastated to be having a baby boy is absolutely disgusting. It really shocked us.

It's crazy how much they hate men and love women, while at the same time, they love masculinity and hate femeninity. All these female characters are physically strong, sassy, dominant, leaders, and cool tempered and (supposedly) away from their emotions. Why can't we have a female character who is actually feminine? One who is soft spoken, beautiful in a tender way, that cares for others, that is nurturing, that has a motherly instinct, that doesn't like fighting and that actively wants love and softness in her life. They love stereotypical masculinity and inject all women with it, but despise femininity so much that they always portray it as weakness... Edit to clarify that I'm talking about female characters created in the past 5 to 10 years, which is when the woke anti femininity started. Female characters created before this explosion of woke were much more diverse and were actually allowed to not be stereotypically masculine

What's their default method for "improving" legacy IPs again? Right, replace the male lead with a toxic woman.

Not even the greatest dystopian science fiction writers could've predicted this woke matriarchy

She-Hulk "Incompetent men telling how to do my job" Shows revealed she was so Incompetent, no wonder Incompetent men tells her how to do her job. 😂😂😂

Looks like misandry is real in Hollywood with movies and TV .

Thanks to Chris Gore and Alan Ng at FILM THREAT we now know the current mantra in Hollywood is "Male and pale is stale."

Obi Wan feeling guilt for Anakin's downfall makes sense but the whole little Leia shit made 0 sense

Even within the ridiculous rant by Jen to Bruce Banner about how she's so much better at controlling her anger, she's...getting very angry.

I miss when the Doctor (from Doctor Who) was something men could aspire to being - a problem-solver who prioritised brains over brawn and could bring out the best in others while showing them the wonders of the universe.

Hollywood needs to prioritize quality over diversity.

"Does Hollywood h@te men?" Why ask a question you already know the answer to?

DEI stands for Destroy Everyone's Icons. Destroy them and replace them with a Mary Sue female. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Obi-Wan, Picard, Indiana Jones, Thor, Mad Max...the list goes on. The heroes of my youth are gone.

We saw this same shti in the recent animated series: Blue Eyed Samurai. SHE, with no real training, was able to decimate hundreds of TRAINED samurai, mercenary warriors, take MASSIVE amounts of physical punishment and perform feats of physical strength that were never explained. Also, the only men who weren't villainous a**holes were the blind sword-maker and the doofus, NO-HANDED, noodle maker boy who pledged himself as her servant. Mary-Sue all day long.🤨

Yes they do.

Disney's formula for classic male characters: Make them broken and need a woman to heal them: Luke Skywalker (Rey to the rescue), Obi-wan Kenobi (Leia got him out of depression), Indiana Jones (Waller-Bridge knocks him out so he doesn't make a stupid decision), Nick Fury (his Skrull wife Gia fixed him. His British counterpart also had to show him how incompetent he'd become). Even Peter Quill needed Nebula to help him through depression and help Rocket.

They say they hate "toxic masculinity", but they write the modern female leads with that exact same personality.

Yes it does. I'm in the demographics they told not to go see their creations in theaters. Haven't gone to a movie theater since and it's actually had a positive effect on my life, cause I've saved a lot of money.

It's easier for the customer to boycott woke films than it is for the industry to keep losing money.

She-Hulk: "When incompetent men explain my own area of expertise to me" This area of expertise being law, in a series where the writers didn't understand law, and it showed. Also saying you're better at controlling your anger because you do it more than someone whom was literally relentlessly hunted by his own country's military for years and also forced into gladiatorial combat on another planet, is a bit of a stretch.

Sigourney Weaver did it right. Men love her. It wasn't a stupid crappy story. It was believable and her character builds as the story goes on. Plus these films (Alien franchise) made her realistic and flawed. She learns to over come in a believable way and doesn't always win.

One main problem with Hollywood is that they believe the general audience will support ANYTHING a women does. No the general audience aren't activist they just want good story telling. Hollywood needs to quick listening to pronoun bio activist who don't even support their movies in theaters but complain when others don't support it either. Why can't we go back to good story telling instead of political driven movies that most people don't want.

Bruh! I just watched the first episode of the re-booted animated He-Man.... and it was ALL about the Princess posturing and saying why she DESERVES to be the next Master-At-Arms. No He-Man to be seen.

Just stop watching all Disney movies .

For me as a female writer, modern day portrayal of women is even insulting. And not just in movies but also in books. Instead of writing really good and fleshed-out female characters, they decide to write them OP. Everybody automatically loves them for breathing and they basically become Mary-Sues. Which used to bother people but nowadays not that much anymore. They don't need to actively do something, because they outsmart everyone by excisting. People often don't realize it takes character development from them. They need to be flawed, they still need to learn and sometimes make stupid mistakes so they can learn from them (which goes for every character aside from gender). On the other hand have their male main characters (or supporting characters) who are also a carbon copy of each other. They don't contribute anything (or very little) and they either simply exist or they are written so incompetent in the worst way possible. You can write both: strong female and male characters. But they are strong for very different reasons. And I hate that modern media pretends like it's wrong to have a feminime side. To be soft, emotional and because of this we can be empathetic. That women's strength is different from men's strength and while there are women who can also be physically strong, there's also strength in being mentally, emotionally and strategically capable. Which of course also goes for men but from a different perspective. Liking girly stuff, romance and being a dreamer has become so stigmatized in our age that it makes me sad. Of course movies can also focus on family dynamics and other relationships instead of romance but it's not like movies from the past didn'tt do that either (especially when talking about Disney movies). But I miss these movies that made you really feel something. I can't relate to any of the (female) characters that exist in this era (or rather there are not many I could relate to) whether male or female. Because they are not written for people to relate to anymore. And none of these writers can tell me tht this is something they would strive to be (or rather I hope it wouldn't be because that's just sad).

LIGHTYEAR IS A RIPOFF! They humiliated him just to one up him with a 20 year daughter from a LESBIAN of all things. As a Toy Story fan I refuse to call it canon also his suit was mostly as though it was ripped right out of HALO.

It's funny, my mom and I are watching "Fringe" right now and the main character in that, a Homeland agent named Olivia, is a hands-down badass and they never, once, make it about her gender or have her show up her male counterparts just because she's a woman. Hollywood has forgotten that we love badass women when they are written competently.

I've been watching older movies all 2024, I've been done with new Hollywood

The black girl name is "REVA" & the show is called "Reva a Star Wars story" guest starring Obi-Wan 😂

Don't forget Thor.

It's crazy to think that Disney & others are so worried about checking boxes that they hire writers, directors & producers that aren't qualified, don't love or even KNOW the movies or characters. It's like hiring the people that did the Die Hard movies to do a Rom-Com.

They don't hate men's money...they just don't seem to know how to get it.

Lauren - recommendation on how it SHOULD be done (though it's been defended of course): The Expanse. Multicultural, multi gender characters, all strong, yet all with weaknesses, and they succeed by leaning on each other. Wish more were like that (and wish Amazon funded the last 3 books rather than Rings of Horsepucky...)

'I'm a feminist by the way' It's like a nervous tick or tourette sydrome

"Does Hollywood HATE Men?" Lol... no sh*t Sherlock!

Don't forget about Suicide Squad video game, where every male superhero character gets disgraced except for the only female superhero who gets respected.

It all comes down to raising women up by standing on the necks of men. I understand the whole "suspension of disbelief", but c'mon! When fantasy is so far away from reality, it's the silliest thing since Silly came to Silly Town.

I guess it's fair. Most of us, including women who have sons, brothers, husbands and fathers that they love with all their hearts, hate "hollyweird". It's one of the main reasons I don't waste money on streaming or movies. I have a DVD collection and you tube is free and we have prime for packages so all the rest can pound sand. So the feeling MUTUAL.

I would even add the strength of a female does not lie in how much they are like men, but in their cunning, attractiveness, their emotional strength. Physical strength isnt the only kind of strength. I have four sisters and what I appreciate about each one is not because they can outrun or outlift me, but rather their minds, their humor, and often their ability to outmanipulate me. A great femme fatale is one who knows how to use her charms to seduce the stupid male. But no, Hollywood only sees strength as a male quality, and that means goodbye to interesting characters.

There's no harm in strong female characters, Beatrix Kiddow and Clarice Starling springs to mind. But the open misandry is vile

Disney is losing a lot of cash because of these kind of decisions, and I’m here for it.

So this is a representation of an even bigger societal problem, where as a culture we don’t even know what a strong male role model is. When the standard of the day is, fatherless homes, women who claim they don’t need a man, therefore raising boys who don’t want to be one, well you can see how we got into this mess. I love a good female character I just think that strong male characters are just as worthwhile and needed more than ever. I think any statistic on fatherless homes tells us everything we need to know since a child who grows up without a positive father figure is way more likely to have addictions, go to jail, drop out of school. In every conceivable way the numbers show that kids need strong, good men in their lives. Even as an adult I still look to my father for guidance. Women and men are meant to compliment each other, we don’t need women to act like men, they are strong and amazing in their own way.

Not just Hollywood

yep, who would have known that degrading and pushing away 50% of your customer base is a good thing ? I learn something from Disney everyday ! Thanks Bob, Kevin and Kathleen !

The failure of Disney is a lesson in what happens when you substitute the question "who's best for the job" with the question "who's the most diverse".

The problem is Hollywood is making STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS not STRONG CHARACTERS THAT ARE FEMALE. For example. The Black Widow played by Scarlet Johansson is a STRONG CHARACTER WHO IS FEMALE. Everybody loves the Black Widow character. Capt Marvel played by Brie Larson is a STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER. Nobody likes this Capt. Marvel character.

This is the quintessential modern woman - "I'm strong and Independent....but rely completely on men paving the way and opening all of the doors for me, so I can get the easiest road possible to be better than men". "I don't need no man...except for pretty much ever facet of my modern and privileged life". "Anything men do, women can do....except open jars, reach the top shelf, blue collar jobs, win wars, and have a conversation where no one commits social destruction, or tries to compete in the victim Olympics."

"We are living in an era devoid of creativity"... I couldn't have said it better myself

To defend Lady Thor, that idea originally came from Jack Kirby, the creator of Thor, Cap and who hired Stan Lee for his first job.

Lest we forget James Bond they killed him dead it's a shame, they also demolished Eddie Murphy's boomerang just ripped it to shreds and it is a classic iconic piece of urban Hollywood history

I wish they would just make good movies💀 I’m not against women getting more roles, but when them being a woman is more important than telling a good story that’s where they start to lose me. Not to mention they can never just write strong female characters. they have to surround them by mediocre men to raise them up higher

Human Target was an action series from years ago. Season 1 - highly competent team of men protecting people and saving the day. Excellent. Season 2 - the team was bought by a lady who proceeded to lecture and question these highly competent men at every turn. Painful.

Fun Fact: the director of Birds of Prey was a woman who had never directed an action sequence. They had to bring in the director of John Wick, a man, for the action sequences. You read that right, they had to bring in a man to do the female director's job.

I don't watch regular cable anymore at all except i see some shows on at the gym. The show I saw on the other day a 5'6" 108lb woman was beating up man after man that was over 6' 200lbs.... its gotten ridiculously unbelievable

Short answer: YES

Captain Marvel was the MARVEL version of superman, but they released his movie as a female lead wtf

Thought that answer has been pretty obvious for a while now, not just in Hollywood, but in all areas of life

0:00 This attitude towards men is fine when making her docs about abusive societal norms in Pakistan. However, Disney/Lucasfilm wants her to bring that same attitude towards men into Star Wars. That makes it a chip on her shoulder and will override any story they make. 12:04 They edited out her assaulting him as he's walking away. This scene was a F-U to the trolls, complaining she didn't smile on the poster or in the first trailer.

I love the way old Brie was already claiming that she had carried a major franchise before she had done such? After the awesome performance of The Marvels, we have proven that Brie, at least, cannot carry a major franchise. Can a woman carry a franchise and was Larson the first to do so? Well, I think Sigourney Weaver might say to Plank, “hold my beer”. I also think that Linda Hamilton may also say, “hold my beer, Brie”. Brie may want to wait until she has actually accomplish something before patting herself on the back. How Brie continues to ignore the many women who accomplished what she only claims to have done is disrespectful to those women who have actually carried franchises many years before she came to Hollywood. I seriously doubt we will see any new Captain Marvel movies in the future.

Why wasn't this entitled behaviour STOPPED after the Ruby Rose (Batwomen) quote. *"The suit is literal perfection. It will be, when it fits a woman"*

i want a superhero movie titled, "Power Couple" about a husband/wife superhero team that are equally as powerful as one another, that fight side by side, but the man gets injured either protecting someone or some such. the wife then has to take on the full responsibility of the superhero work whilst the husband recovers and she comes to realize that he really made the difference. it would be a story about understanding that no person is an island. i don't need it to have all the 'normal' drama of a cheating subplot or that they are secretly in an unhappy marriage. those plots have been done to death, but a simple story about valuing the worth of your partner. "you don't miss the water until the well runs dry", story

Look at The Flash tv series. At points he felt like a supporting character in his own show. We spend more time with the female characters. And Charlie's Angel's not only is a female Bosley, but the original one that is played by Patrick Stewart (previously played by Bill Murray in the first film) spoiler alert, now he's a traitor.

Gina Carano proved men LOVE believable strong women with her Cara Dune Mandalorian character and I think THAT'S why she was fired - her existence wrecked their narrative that men are sexist, undermining the lie all this is built on. We LOVED The Expanse for this exact reason - ALL the women were incredibly strong, but with a REASON and without weakening the men, without making us stupid or evil or greedy.

The "Holdovers" is a relatively low budget film that came out in late 2023. Amazingly, it has a strong "Old White Guy" character AND a strong Black woman character (as well as a young male character). The writing is superb, the character development unfolds gradually and captures the audience's full attention. The film stands in stark contrast to all the ideological BS being produced by corporate Hollywood. The truly amazing thing is that Holdovers proves that films don't have to have "representation" of race, gender, and sexual preference for the aidience to identify with the characters. I found myself identifying with all three characters as the story unfolded. Holdovers stands as a rebuke of Hollywood.

"She's so strong and he's so weak" may be the case but when "she" is the protagonist and "he" is the villain and she is "strong" and he is "weak" then there's a problem in the writing, all tension is gone. That's the main problem of todays movies, not female leads. If Ripley would be blasting Xenomorphs left and right, this would be sh*tty as well, if Sarah Conner would eat Terminators for breakfast,...then first of all, who's her dentist and does he or she take patients? Bottom line, we had figured this out years ago, even long before the first woman, who is obviously Jennifer Laurence, appeared on screen, back in the 70s we had Sigourney Weaver and Pam Grier, the 80s and 90s and early 2000ands were full of kick ass women, Buffy, Charlies Angels (also 70s, yes), the Bride, Janeway, whatever Kate Bekinsale did and more. Hollywood, you've created a problem that already had a solution, what happens next, do we forget how to build literal bridges again? Also She-Hulk writers: getting compliments on the street and someone taking the time to explain you sh*t isn't worse than being in an accident of a gone wrong experiment, having some gamma ray-related condition no one knows about, beeing forced to give up your life to find a cure, "with no one helping you" and beeing chased around the world by your own country, never beeing able to sleep in peace,...I should not have to explain that...

The latest movie with spiderman characters Madam Web is another attempt to replace Peter Parker with a female version. It includes women who take the identity of Spider-girl and Spider- woman. There is one other character in the comics they will probably put on screen soon, a girl called Silk is an Asian teen who gets bitten by the very same Spider that bit Peter Parker.

Its not just the lack of experience of the female directors they choose, its also the female writers they choose.

It's either "really green" or "wet behind the ears", not "green behind the ears". (Just an FYI; "Green" is a reference to a young plant and "wet behind the ears" is (YUCK) recently passed through the birth canal). Humbly, from a 68 year old fan.

As from the dawn of time this was the only reality, Men and Women complete each other, not compete with each other. and today we Men need more Women like you to side with us against this agenda.

The emasculation of Hollywood

Don’t forget Scott Pilgrim animated series kills him in episode 1 and has the rest of show be about Ramona Flowers.

I think I need to mention this because I don’t know anyone who’s mentioned it but the trend of emasculating the men in movies started much earlier with a lot of romantic comedies and family movies in the early to late 2000’s which ultimately led to the death of those genres on the big screen.

Look at the commercials too.

Yes, yes they do. Particularly these days.

I wonder why the military is struggling to meet its recruitment quotas?

I've always enjoyed male/female characters written by Hayao Miyazaki. The portrayal of characters in western films has been corrupted by consumerism. Stories have the ability to inspire and teach valuable lessons/themes which can have a massive influence on society. It's a complete disservice to sacrifice good writing for cheap entertainment. A strong female character doesn't need to prove that she is better than a male character. It's society telling people they don't need men, and that women can be independent. When people should be taught that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses and it's about working together. I'm currently writing a book where the main character is a female. What makes her a strong character is that she has wants and needs, there are obstacles that she has to overcome, struggles that she has to endure, but she has a strong drive to perservere. She makes a good leader because she recognizes that everyone has their own talents/flaws, and understands that by working together they can save the world.

" It's normalising something that should be normalised a long time ago," she says as if alien doesnt exist.

Mainly white, straight men but black guys, you're not immune, especially if you lean to the right.

Is water wet?

In the latest season of Fargo, every single male character is either a terrible man or a weak man except for one and he gets killed. All the female characters are bad ass strong. It was incredibly transparent how the feminist ideology was pushed down the viewers’ throat.

Lauren, you hit it right on the nail, bravo! 👏👏👏👏 Hollywood adores women but hates men. Unfortunately, the majority of movies and tv shows clearly showcase this, however, there are some movies and tv shows that depict men in a positive light and uplifts them up right alongside the women as equals, that is the way it's suppose to be but that is in the minority. It's going to take at least a generation or two until we can reprogram society to reach that point. I look forward to seeing more of your videos! 👍 You just earned a new subscriber! 😎

Sexism and racism is still sexism and racism not matter who does it

Why should woman direct 50 percent of films ?

Chris Hemsworth circling Disney Reboot 'Marv Poppins'.

The advertising industry also does this with the 'stupid dad/ husband/ smart mom/ wife & kids' trope. And let's not forget how this narrative is used in TV sitcoms as well.