@KageKageKing:
Isn't that what they tried to do with Ghostbusters?
I take it you're not familiar with Lord of the Flies.
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@AfroSamurai:
Women also tend to organise themselves in less of a hierarchical way compared to men(ON AVERAGE)
I wouldn't say that at all. Bitchy cliques almost always have a lead figure like Jack, and they damn sure have lower rung outcasts like Piggy, Simon, and eventually Ralph.
I wonder if they'll keep the gore? Or find a different way to portray characters getting 'eliminated'. Perhaps something less 'brute forcey' and more 'psychological torture', in line with male v female characteristics.
Have you…have you never seen a girl fight?... "psychological" is not the way I would choose to describe those.
While we're dealing in stereotypes here, I have an extra hard time believing someone from the Mediterranean cannot imagine physically violent women.
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@AfroSamurai:
Apparently feminist outlets really don't like this idea. Anti-fems on the other hand don't care. Weird.
Going off the few articles like that I've actually seen the anti-fems don't have to do anything because those "feminist" outlets are doing their sexist job for them.
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The theme I'm seeing (alongside yeah, conservative shit articles as well, bullshit are "antifems" not making stupid articles) is a broken strand of feminism I'll call "Utopian Feminism", which is where basically all the ills of society and people are branded as resulting from patriarchy. And there's like um...well if it wasn't there we'd uh... see something cool and um different.
Which is about as far as the thinking ever goes.
All I hear when I see stuff like that is an alternate form of a really basic form of conservative almost Victorian sexism, of girls and women as delicate kindly angels. The ol' benevolent sexism.
You can be dressed up in the most progressive academia robes there is, but the moment that sort of malarky leaves your mouth you transform into an elderly Midwestern church lady talking "Ladies do not play in the dirt!".
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lol at all the twitter heads claiming it's "about" toxic masculinity.
Sure maybe you could try and read it that way, but what always stuck out to me was the group-think mob mentality tribalism. Which is just plain out human, dangle or no dangle.
I think about how they start out reasonable, sober enough, and then eventually get all carried away into pitchfork wielding CHASE THE OTHER, CHASE THE OTHER. Following behind a nasty bastard leader rather than the level headed dude.
I think about the "other" the people on the outs, bullied Piggy who starts out relatively protected, then the more things slide into mob mentality the less and less safe it gets for him until welp.
I think about the superstitious mob think that gets Simon killed when they freak out and think he's a monster, and how his whole character was sort of the odd duck out. One that eventually gets torn up by the confused dumb mob who never understood him.
And how the whole final sequence is the level headed lead running for his life from the crazed mob... until running into recently arrived adults...and then the mob just kind of comes apart like a spell is broken...
That's universally relatable, and damn sure not gender specific.
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Now we wanna talk a classic depiction of toxic masculinity that would be hard to gender flip, we could start talking Taxi Driver.
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I should say that both directors being male is definitely iffy, like uh yeah to get the authentic feel that's gonna be unlikely. So I get that as a criticism.
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