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[james_davis_nicoll]

National Review: Two or more women discussing something other than a man is an attack on ART ITSELF! Also, the author seems not to have heard of JK Rowling.

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[jessie_c]

Poor Kyle seems threatened by the thought that men are not the most important topic.

[heron61]

Indeed.

[jessie_c]

I learned a nice new word today. It's "Broflake". Poor special Broflake.

[komadori]

This article makes me want to throw things...

[kithrup]

I'm sure the author has heard of John Keatman Rowling.

[conuly]

Oh, ffs.

[graydon]

Patriarchy is an economic system.

I really wish there was more overt recognition that morals are nothing compared to the prospect of getting richer.

[kgbooklog]

Wow, he's practically quoting Russ's book.

Here's an analysis I saw recently counting the number of words spoken by men and women in 2,000 movies:
https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/

[beamjockey]

The critic, Kyle Smith, mentions movies made from J. K. Rowling's writings in passing, but strangely forgets them at the end:

If a woman wants the next Lord of the Rings–style franchise to pass the Bechdel Test, then a woman should come up with a story with as much earning potential as J. R. R. Tolkien’s.

According to Wikipedia, worldwide gross for recent* Tolkien films has been about $4,832,473,353, but only $2,918,086,710 of that is from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Worldwide gross for the six Harry Potter films** has been $6,926,743,023.


* Neglecting the Bakshi and Rankin-Bass*** animated films of the 20th Century.

** Neglecting the gross from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which I haven't bothered to look up.

*** TV films; were they released in theaters anywhere?

[beamjockey]

As for other feminine writers, I have the impression that the Twilight films earned some money.

And I have not added up the worldwide gross figures from various film versions of Frankenstein.

[philrm]

According to IMDB, you can toss in about another billion dollars for the gross of FBaWtFT.

[(Anonymous)]

"Worldwide gross for the six Harry Potter films** has been $6,926,743,023."

Wasn't it 8 Harry Potter films (one for each of the first 6 books, and two for the last book (so we'd get more camping footage))?

[beamjockey]

I got sloppy. Mea culpa.

(Funny we never see a class where Harry & pals study Latin.)

Since we are in blockbuster territory, I plucked my numbers from that page of the 50 top-grossing films. Guess what? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, movie 3, was not in the top 50-- and I failed to notice this. Plus, I got the number of the rest of them wrong.

I apologize to the Commentariat. There are so many Harry Potter movies...

According to this source, P of A raked in a miserable $796,688,549, which raises Harry's total worldwide gross a mere 11.5 percent, to $7,723,431,572.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

BTW, do all the Harry Potter films pass the Bechtel test? They all have at least two named female characters, but do the women talk to each other? About anything other than Harry?
:)

And I haven't read or seen the Twilight trilogy, but I'm betting that those don't pass.

-AwesomeAud

[tree_and_leaf]

"Harry Potter" disadvantages itself in that it is mostly told from Harry's point of view, but most of the books nonetheless do (the films mostly don't).

[(Anonymous)]

Shouldn't a memetic prophylatic have been recommended?

[maruad]

It did say National Review. I assumed that was similar.

[dragoness_e]

What's really bad is that he mentions J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series earlier in the same article! Apparently he's not aware that she's about as famous as Tolkien these days. He's also apparently unaware of Mercedes Lackey, who about owned the Fantasy section of the paperbacks for a decade or so.

[princessofgeeks]

Not enough facepalm in the world.

I tried to read that magazine for a while, looking for ways to avoid staying in my USA liberal bubble... but. Just. No.

Am looking for other conservative sites that are as good as the Wall Street Journal. Hard to find.