Welp: Angry White Men Flood The Internet With Negative Reviews Of ‘Captain Marvel’ After Its Star Asked For More Diversity Among Critics
With Captain Marvel's release edging closer, the film's cast is on the promo trail, and fans of the Marvel franchise have swarmed social media with comments of anticipation for its worldwide release.
Some of those very fans, however, quickly shifted gears with many of them showing their misogynistic views after the film's star, Brie Larson, advocated for more diversity in the film criticism community.
Ahead of its March 8 release, Captain Marvel's Rotten Tomatoes page has already been riddled with a slew of angry and disparaging audience commentary in response to Larson's remarks, which she made in the March 2109 issue of British Marie Claire.
In the interview, the actress proudly spoke out on the "overwhelmingly white male" representation among film critics. Rather than simply assuming, Larson went a step further by reaching out to Dr. Stacy Smith from USC's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, who shared that, in their 2017 study, it was found that 80 percent of film critics were men. The top critics who identified as women of color only amounted to 2.5 percent.
Upon reading her comments, fans of the film swarmed Rotten Tomatoes to ridiculously slam Larson for being "racist and sexist" towards white males, with many even vowing to boycott the film.
"Why Marvel decided to cast a very vocal racist and sexist aimed at white males, I'll never know," one comment read, with another adding, "As a white male i don't think Brie would want me watching this movie."
Larson, however, is likely unbothered by their unwarranted butt-hurt opinions as, in June 2018, she first expressed these very concerns during the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards.
"I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time," she said. "It wasn't made for him! I want to know what it meant to women of color, biracial women, to teen women of color."
She went even further by reassuring her critics, "Am I saying I hate white dudes? No. I am not. What I am saying is if you make a movie that is a love letter to women of color, there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie, and review your movie."
Captain Marvel premieres in theaters on March 8.
