So what exactly are you trying to say here? That some forms of critical bias in art are more insidious, more damaging than others? That there are in fact objectively bad films that are getting too good a reception because of bias?

No, it wouldn’t, but I resent your characterization of male energy as “direct and concrete,” implying that female energy is not direct nor concrete.

The opposite is true. If a bias is explicit and the author confronts it, they are less likely to allow that bias to influence their conclusions. That’s the point of consciously confronting biases. 

All this stuff is politicized, that’s why Black Panther and Wonder Woman got rave reviews while being fairly mediocre films.

I think men and women, generally speaking, are different creatures in many ways with different tastes. I don’t think it’s outrageous that art coming from the viewpoint of a woman would be best enjoyed by other women.

The defensive men in the comments seem to be trying, somehow, to rationalize this as films starring women just happen to be terrible and men are the only ones honest enough to see that. Clearly, women are at fault again. 

“I’d guess that men and women have, generally speaking, different creative energies and the male energy (more direct, more concrete - again, generally speaking)”

I mean, sure. No one’s ever heard of men harbouring some weird, implicit biases re: women before so it must be the women who are biased. Never mind the fact that female critics had a negligible difference in average ratings of films with male protagonists (73%) vs films with female protagonists  (74%) whereas male…

If men and women are so different and have such different tastes, then why do male and female critics rate films by/about men so similarly?

I suspect the opposite is far more likely. 

Actually, it’s not. They don’t specify this in the article, but if you look at the linked data, women reviewers also give higher ratings to movies with *male* protagonists - that 3 percent difference is that the average score for a movie with a male protagonist from women reviewers is 73%, while from men it’s 70%. Men…

It seems like the most important factor here is just that women aren’t taken as seriously in the film world, which is why there are less of them at nearly every level, a provable fact. What you’re saying probably has some merit, and this isn’t really aimed at you, but every fucking time this obvious truth is pointed…

“The women are biased and men are impartial.”

Fuck that horseshit.

Lol, right, cause the straight white male viewpoint is bias-free! Oh, Joey. You are a real kidder!

God yall are such crybabies. Your headline lives in a different America.

For whatever reason this reminds me of the tragic case of David Reimer, I’m not sure there are a ton of parallels, but the idea of some hack “researcher” meddling in the life of a child only to lead to tragedy seems pretty familiar.

This is sort of nor-totally-on-topic, but it remains interesting to me that people tend to talk about nature vs. nurture purely in terms of “parental variation.”

Modern people are typically as impacted by their peers as they are by their parents. I’m not trying to make some Earth shattering revelation here, just…

You know when peole talk about frivolous lawsuits? This right here is the very opposite of that.

But at what point does one go from a person who says racist (or sexist, or whatever) things to an actual racist?

But at what point does one go from a person who says racist (or sexist, or whatever) things to an actual racist?