Mo more male movie director please...

In socialist Europe, liberal bias in society is more pronounced than in the United States. It’s difficult to imagine that there is a mainstream media that is more blatantly biased towards left, but there is one: just look at an op-ed piece that calls for curbing male bias in film industry by packing up the women-directed films on their first weekend.

For card-carrying gender feminists whose mantra includes such famous slogan as “personal is political”, the act of going to movie on weekend is not just a private activities that you enjoy to take a break from weekdays’ stressful lives, but also a political action that advances specific cause and which needs to be organized and orchestrated by some feminist groups.

Under feminists’ leadership, you will no loner have a privilege of choosing whatever activities you wish to do on weekend, or if you do choose to go to see a movie, no longer a privilege of choosing whatever film you like to see. No, in Ms. Walter’s view, you need to go to see a movie and that movie BETTER BE directed by women. Whatever the genre of movie you are going to see, it BETTER BE a movie directed by women (and better be at the first weekend of it s release, or otherwise it doesn’t count much, we were told). And you better cheer enthusiastically after the end of the movie yelling “NO-MORE-MALE-DIRECTORS” and write rave on-line reviews of that women-directed movie. You may also be required to join the letter-writing/e-mail campaign to film companies, theaters, etc. to put more women-directed films – you think its a bit too overboard? Sorry, you commitment to gender-equality is not genuine, and we will book you to attend the next available ‘gender-sensitivity’ training. No, relax, we are not sending you to concentration camp in Siberia, it’s just a ‘gender-sensitivity’ training, in which you will discover the joy of living under matriarchy.

This kind of feminists’ your-personal-life-is-my-political-domain mentality is not limited in the film world. There is similar movement behind women’s sport, an organized efforts to drive up attendance at for example WNBA or women’s soccer league in US (when it still existed!!), or number of TV viewers for women’s sports. Everyday feminists' e-mail inboxes are flooded with information about next women’s college soccer game on local TV or e-mails calling to bring friends, co-workers, neighbours or passer-byes to the next WNBA games.

Thus we can speculate that a large chunk of spectators or TV viewers on women’s sports, and audiences for women-directed films are in a way staged political activists. If we were to subtract these claques from the number of spectatars/audiences to women's sport or women-directed films, maybe not enough to sustain as a business, unless of course theaters or TV stations are going to be owned not by market-driven business people but agenda driven feminists.