Cannes Film Festival to open amid 'sexism' row

The film industry, like any business is there to make money. Investors pile in money to prospective films that they believe will give them a good financial return. To discriminate against female directors would mean investors are prepared to make bad financial decisions risking their investment.

The film industries award ceremonies pick films on box office success and artistic merit. But I suppose they can be forced to give unwarranted prises through the feminist tide of ‘positive’ discrimination in our feminist culture.

A certain group of female film directors have convinced themselves (and would like to convince all others) that their films, despite not being bigger box office success than other films directed by certain men, are better and that they are being discriminated against because they are women.

Who cares weather a film is directed by a man or woman if you find it a good film to watch? But the feminists, as ever, can’t accept their own professional inadequacy and effectively try and run a false guilt trip on the film industry to give those prises they haven’t professionally earned.

The atmosphere of sour grapes is thick with them actually promoting sexism as the reason for their poor performance. They effectively cry ‘daddy, daddy, make them give ME prises’, intoxicated with their feminist entitlement complex, when their films are not prise-worthy. I wish the spoilt little girls would just grow up and direct better films to get prises. Sadly though, this sort of emotional feminist shaming blackmail ends up working on the vast majority.

Below is a link to an article reporting that female directors have banded together to write an open sarcastic letter against the Cannes film festival for not giving prises to films directed by women.

It said: "Men love their women to have depth, but only when it comes to their cleavages.”

"All 22 films in the official selection were written, happy coincidence, by 22 men."

BBC News - Cannes Film Festival to open amid 'sexism' row

It said: "Men love their women to have depth, but only when it comes to their cleavages.

Oh the hypocrisy.

Geez, they are criticising the Festival as if it were so very... French!

Merged and edited.

Did it ever occur to those snarling dullards, that maybe there are no female film directors because filming takes a lot of time and money?

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Geez, they are criticizing the Festival as if it were so very... French!

Laissez les féministes avec leurs aisselles velues se plaindre. Le trop foutu mauvais!

Film prizes are supposed to be given out if you made a good movie, not because you have a vagina!

Did it ever occur to them that film festivals have a criteria?

Did it ever occur to them that the female directors didn't deliver a worthy piece of work? You don't see other male directors crying and boohooing.

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Did it ever occur to them that the female directors didn't deliver a worthy piece of work?

No, because they think they're emotional bowel movements and "gashes" should be sufficient enough for them to win. To be frank, they should shut the hell up and work harder for the prize instead of pouting and screaming!

They're used to getting their way by complaining. At some level, that's probably why they're doing it.

Such is feminits' sense of entitlement, brought about by years of cowtowing to their every demand, that the moment some common sense sticks its head out of the trenches and (shock horror!) people are judged on MERIT, the usual suspects switch to outrage mode and there is an barrage of abuse. Here's a whingeblog discussion about it with a rare sensible comment actually topping the list at the moment (arielle | May 14, 2012 5:48 PM)

Four Steps Back - NO Women Directors in Competition at Cannes | Women and Hollywood

Perhaps the absence of girly films is related to the topic of another whingeblog on the same site:
"Females Grossly Underrepresented and Misrepresented in Top Grossing Films of 2011"


I'm not much of a fan of the top grossing films but it seems that few if any women make films that most people want to watch.

So, no women directed films deemed worthy? Big fucking deal. Amazing, as to how equality, and equality of opportunity, are concepts that the masses have been brainwashed to fail to distinguish between, when it comes to women. How about they start focusing their attentions on the BOTTOM, instead of the top, for once? Perhaps check out who populates prisons in the greatest numbers, men or women. Or suicide figures, differentiated by gender. Or unemployment figures..........but, of course, this wouldn't suit their AGENDA, would it? It's all about the evil menz at the top.....

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No, because they think they're emotional bowel movements and "gashes" should be sufficient enough for them to win. To be frank, they should shut the hell up and work harder for the prize instead of pouting and screaming!

Probably got sick of their [the crybabies] shit too!

"All 22 films in the official selection were written, happy coincidence, by 22 men."

Sure, and we could escalate this begrudging nonsense to the next level of bigotry and say most of those 22 men were Jewish. And then what.............................................. ......................?

We have to slap political correctness hard in the face and demand that 'minorities' rise to the standard, not that quotas are dished out willy-nilly and standards are lowered to include those who input less.

From my last (sarcastic) understanding, weren't films made as financial speculations, therefore anyone funding such ventures couldn't give a fuck about the sex of the writer, director or producer of a film. Only that it makes money?