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Okay, but all fucking jokes aside.......the precedent we’ve set in the last few years is fucking terrible.

1) The first woman to get to direct a movie with a 100+ million dollar budget blew it in so many ways despite being one of the best working female writer/director of the last fifty years. (Ava and “A Wrinkle In Time”)

2) The first woman to get to help a major “franchise” that was supposed to be a the first in a string of movies shat the bed so epically that the studio straight up just pulled on any and all sequels. (Elizabeth with “Charlie’s Angels”)

3) The woman in charge of the first major wlw Christmas studio movie did...well...THAT. (Clea with “Happiest Season”)

These where three major opportunities to show that female writer/directors can and should be playing at the same level as the men in the field and yet they were spectacular bombs all around. These three things are fodder for studios to not allow women to helm major productions. This is the shit they will use as excuses for why women can’t be in charge of tentpoles. It’s fucking frustrating because what are the odds that Ava drops the ball on the biggest project she gets? The other two were just absolutely the wrong choices for these opportunities. Elizabeth did a decent enough job directing but that script should’ve been burned and gotten a page one rewrite the moment it was finished. That script should’ve never gotten approved and to know it got through so many hands before production and they all thought that was good says so much about the bad taste prevalent in execs. Clea just...sucks lol. There’s so many capable women out there who could’ve taken the Charlie’s Angels franchise and done something with it. There’s a slew of better filmmakers that could’ve made the first sapphic Christmas movie and not produced a shitfest. Yet these two white women got to do instead and it’s just proof that white women are allowed to fail up then fuck up and make it harder for the rest of us women of color to get the same opportunities. This is aggravating on so many fucking levels. It is.