Hanna Rosin is enraged Gay men are having fun.
This is why LGB alliances won't work. Frustrated, angry, bitter, vindictive, a FABV.
If there are further developments this story will be updated.
GAY MEN ARE HAVING FUN, THE OUTRAGE
This is why LGB organizing doesn’t work. You end up with people like this venting their hostility toward men on Gay men. (Link to essay on the problems with LGB alliances.)
She has decided to delete the tweet. The link is no longer valid. I didn’t save it in the Internet archive either. It got over 1600 Quote Tweets at one point. Notice that this cranky hating opinion got 184 likes when I did this screen capture. It went over 200. Over 200 people saw a hating tweet and were all in.
I expected this film and “Bros” to be hated by Alphabet scolds and so this tweet wasn’t a surprised. I am waiting for someone to condemn “My Fake Boyfriend.”
Gay men are having too much fun. So, the above was tweeted by Hanna Rosin who is not just some Twitter crank, but was a part of NPR and writes for The Atlantic magazine
https://www.hannarosin.com/
The Bechdel Test is a test of films and one of the things is whether the film has two women and they talk about something besides a man. Of course, a homosexual Gay film might not even have two women and on Fire Island the topic would probably be some man.
https://www.newsweek.com/fire-island-movie-bechdel-test-twitter-debate-1713370
Not surprisingly she is the author of this book, “The End of Men.”
https://www.amazon.com/End-Men-Rise-Women/dp/1594488045
Margaret Cho commented, “I didn’t realize I was drab.”
A lot of the criticism is that an under represented group, Asians, were being shown and Hanna Rosin was a white feminist upset with minority representation. I think that is a valid criticism, but I want to be clear, even if it was a mostly white Gay movie, Hanna Rosin’s comments would still be invalid.
Hanna Rosin might have considered that wokeness on race trumps wokeness on feminism.
This is her heading on Twitter. Doesn’t seem to like men.
One of the movie’s actors did an instagram post
Some of the Alphabet Soup media also picked up on this.
LGBTQNation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/writer-hanna-rosins-bad-fire-island-take-gay-twitter-uproar/
The Advocate
The Mary Sue
https://www.out.com/film/2022/6/08/fire-island-passes-bechdel-test-alison-bechdel-said-so-herself
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/08/fire-island-bechdel-test-hanna-rosin-apology/
Then major and entertainment media.
https://www.salon.com/2022/06/08/island-bechdel-test/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fire-island-bechdel-test-1235161148/
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63653761
In this case Alison Bechdel was not pleased that the test was used to denounce the movie. Though it might be considered that this type of application of the Bechdel test was the logical result of its purpose.
One person thought they would get in on the self-righteous sweepstakes by criticizing an Asian Gay movie written by Asians as somehow supporting white supremacy.
The problem is that no one in a LGBTQXYZ forum will tell them that they are full of rubbish because the incantation of “cis white gays” will be said over and over.
This there was this person who thought it was really important to state his radical credentials before criticizing Hanna Rosin. Also, reading his tweet, Hanna Rosin’s critique would have been valid for him if it had been a movie about white Gay guys. JM Sudsina is why people like Hanna Rosin think they can just attack Gays, because Gays in the the supposed LGBTQXYZ leadership are always ready to cave into outrageous attacks like Hanna Rosin. He “Love the bechdel test…”
Hanna Rosin has since deleted the tweet and has “apologized”, I use the term very loosely here. I think she realized that her career might be severely limited.
Hanna Rosin doesn’t actually say what she said was wrong, she is sorry because it was not well received. Notice that the original tweet is still there. I put links to these tweets at the very end of this post.
Hanna Rosin is a Frustrated, Angry, Bitter, Vindictive, FABV.
More news stories are coming out so I will add links towards the end of this post.
Rosin wasn’t the only person wanting to take snipes at this movie. Adam Manno decided to stab the movie.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fire-island-is-yet-another-movie-featuring-fit-gay-men
Again, the gutless Gay men in the LGBTQXYZ leadership are afraid of saying some cultivation of self-righteousness is rubbish.
Of course there are other upcoming summer Gay rom-coms which I believe will fail the Bechdel Test. Since this involves the “cis white men” that horrifies
Then there is this movie. Probably doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test.
More news stories about Rosin and Fire Island.
The following are the tweets by links.