# Misogyny and pop culture: don't yuck my yum! (Spoilers for the movie Poor Things) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107 "2024-02-04T22:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 410
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107/410 "2024-02-17T20:55:04Z")
> [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](#): > > The hostility to Eonwe’s opinion was unwarranted. There was no “hostility”. _This_ was the post that started it, in the midst of people who had actually seen the movie discussing it: > [@Poor Things - movie. Open spoilers after first post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-things-movie-open-spoilers-after-first-post/996425/26): > > I haven’t seen it mostly because the trailer and pre-release talk made me skeptical. This thread confirms. A movie written by a man, based on a book written by a man, directed by a man, about a thin attractive woman who begins the story in a place of innocence, and discovers that sex is liberating and one of her favorite things, and is dtf lots of people in lots of ways on her quest to understand herself and the world. But she totally does it on her terms, because female empowerment! To which I responded as has been noted, that it is a bit weird to have such a sarcastic trashing of a movie when you haven’t seen it, based exclusively on how you perceive it fits in with your social or political agenda and based on something you read on the internet. Yes I responded with sarcasm in turn, comparing that to review bombing, which is _also_ trashing something sight unseen based on hearing something about it and how it fits with some agenda you have. Honestly a pretty mild jibe to my sense, to a mild annoyance. My saying that it definitely not a movie everyone would like was read as saying they were unsophisticated, the ongoing discussion about it being interpreted as misogynistic by some that I had started in the thread was read as dismissive and defensive and I was then called an “asshole” WTF? That was no sarcasm. It was clear hostility. Yes I requested the mods call for some chilling out. And while I questioned my comment being labeled as inappropriate I accepted their call. If there is any doubt that @Eonwe was saying more than that they didn’t feel it was worth their time then the subsequent posts, including this thread’s OP makes it clear: any comment from the many who have seen it that no that isn’t really what the movie is, at least in our opinions, it is due to their dismissive and defensive misogyny. _They_ haven’t seen it but since there are, among many positive reviews and some (I think incorrectly) declaring it a strong feminist movie, a handful of those who have seen it who declare it a male fantasy well that is all they need to know and anyone else who thinks otherwise is a misogynist pig. Okay then. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misogyny-and-pop-culture-dont-yuck-my-yum-spoilers-for-the-movie-poor-things/997107)._