“It’s one thing to ask audiences to suspend belief for this fairy tale, and it’s a whole other thing to ask them to consider for one moment that an otherwise sane woman would be so desperate as to fall for a creature who can’t even survive on dry land–not when there are actual men in this town.”
Haha man someone tell this dude that he is not the hot commodity that he thinks he is and personally speaking I for one am eager to get away from actual men and be whisked into the loving arms of a fishman.
@blazichu
Did Gaston write this article?
Aaaand now I can’t stop picturing Gaston, furiously typing with his index fingers at some laptop with antlers glued to it, just muttering ‘what woman would have some beast when there are men like me?!’ to himself.
I feel this should start becoming a thing in the comment sections of articles like these. “That’s nice, Gaston. I’m sure you’re very pretty, too, Gaston.”
I’ve seen this on my dash like three times, each with different slams about how this dude has no concept of what women want, and I only just now clicked on the article.
it’s written by a black woman who only recently started working there and has some valid points about why is it always the woman who falls in love with the non-human creature, and how a black woman is yet again cast as the best friend/sidekick.
and her main hangup from the movie was that she wouldn’t want to spend her life with a fishman and so it came across to her that male gaze deciding that being male is sufficient to get you any lady you desire even if you’re a grotesque monster.
she listed “
Male-gazey woman-on-monster relationship” in her list of cons.
I just don’t think this article is what you think it is.
It’s not what anyone thinks it is, and it’s baffling. The sum total of the article is basically “I don’t get why a woman would have a relationship with a fish monster, especially if there’s other options open to her” and somehow it’s turned into “ASSHOLE NICE GUY HATES WOMEN, FISH, PROBABLY ALSO YOU.” That’s not even getting into her – a black woman’s – opinion on the film’s racial politics, which it seems no-one cares about, not when there’s hatin’ on an imaginary person (the aforementioned nice guy) to be done.
(Incidentally, although that’s Candice Frederick’s first article for Gamespot she’s a very successful film critic overall. One of her recent articles is titled “John Boyega is the Sci-Fi Icon We Need.” Hmmm, that sounds awfully familiar.)
To put it bluntly, man, this whole post & replies & accompanying nonsense would be a great case study for… something.
“Qing Lin, 47, a manicurist who has worked on the Upper East Side for the last 10 years, still gets emotional when recounting the time a splash of nail polish remover marred a customer’s patent Prada sandals. When the woman demanded compensation, the $270 her boss pressed into the woman’s hand came out of the manicurist’s pay. Ms. Lin was asked not to return.
