Okay, that post (well, the replies to it, really) going around about that one The Shape of Water review is rubbing me up the wrong way. The points it was making (as neatly summarized at the end in fact!) are basically just “I don’t like woman/monster romances, I find them unrealistic, I want more female monsters in movies rather than male ones, and the film underuses its only black character”. So you’ve got most of the comments under the link to the review (I don’t know how many actually people read it) calling the author “a Nice Guy” and “jealous” and waaaay worse, but-
The author’s a black woman, Candice Frederick, here’s some of her other work (Much of it is focused on white woman representation vs the lesser black woman representation in movies). She’s not an “incel”, she’s not a “trog”, she is presumably not “a festering asshole”, and her one mildly negative review of a (pretty white, come to think of it) film about a fishman is not any sort of death knell for movie journalism.
Like… Tumblr in general makes a big show about supporting black women both as a group and as individuals with voices, but you can’t put all that to the side just because she didn’t like a movie Tumblr likes.