


We should applaud and encourage male directors and writers when they make female-positive material, not call them out on their gender and claim they can't be feminist or create feminist art. Worse is the closing line "But a feminist masterpiece? Let’s leave those to the women." What kind of nonsense is this? A film can't be feminist or woman-positive unless the creators/writers/directors are female? With the overwhelming majority of the writers and directors in big-budget Hollywood being male, if you want women-friendly, feminist movies, they're going to have to come disproportionately from men.It's a great movie that also happens to be women-positive, which is almost shocking in the genre. I haven't heard anyone call it a feminist masterpiece (whatever that might be), but a feminist movie because there are several important woman roles with definable characters. The movie is getting credit for being feminist because it's so refreshingly not sexist/misogynistic.There's a lot wrong with the argument in the article, but I'll keep my criticism to just two points:
