I get that they mean well and Coogler is right about there not being enough opportunities for women behind the camera but it is still an incredibly fucking dumb (and ironically potentially damaging) thing to say.

Also seriously? No women directors? The director of The Diary of A Teenage Girl? Desiree Akhavan for Appropriate Behavior? The lady who directed Girlhood? No Laurie goddamn Anderson for the stunning Heart Of A Dog which has like above 95% on Rotten Tomatoes?

No, “women” as a whole are neither better at nor worse at anything than men are, but each of us has our own individual strengths or weaknesses (GASP I KNOW).