There's always a discourse split with things like this Group 1 saying "Women should be allowed to fully participate in the prestigious 'male' genres" and Group 2 saying "No, the 'female' genres should be just as prestigious as the 'male' ones"https://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1285709851587416071 …
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Obviously everyone believes in theory we should be fighting for both, but that's easier said than done Usually one group gets ahead by throwing the other one under the bus, and personal taste factors very strongly into this
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Pauline Kael breaking barriers as a female film critic because she fucking hated romcoms, Kathryn Bigelow breaking barriers as a director whose movies were the exact polar opposite of romcoms
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On the flipside, Sex and the City etc being a financial high water mark for "women-led properties" And indeed the two kinds of success are at odds with each other -- Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar but she doesn't make nearly as much money as Sex and the City did
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It does really feel like you have this binary choice If you want to make money as a woman in Hollywood, stay in your lane and do "chick flick" stuff and do it well If you want prestige and respect, be Not Like Other Girls If you want both... good luck
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Can you imagine the wearing of sackcloth, sitting among potshards and ashes, and wailing and gnashing of teeth by the usual suspects there would have been if either of the 'Sex and the City' flicks had gotten any Oscar attention?
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I mean, my opinion is they were both objectively terrible, but hey
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