By Steve Sailer
03/02/2017
In todayâs New York Times:
Yet, for some mysterious reason, the members of the made-up category of âactressesâ havenât been enthusiastic about competing for Oscars against the members of the made-up category of âactors.âGloria Steinem: Women Have âChick Flicks.â What About Men?
By GLORIA STEINEM MARCH 2, 2017
I was on a flight from New York to Seattle when a long delay on the tarmac prompted the airline to offer us a free movie. As the flight attendant read the choices aloud, a young man across the aisle said, âI donât watch chick flicks!â
⌠He would also be rewarded by such irresistible movies as âHidden Figures,â about three African-American women whose brainpower fueled the American space program, or two such universal stories as the lost boys and found men in âLionâ and âMoonlight.â
These movies meet the âchick flickâ entry-level test of being more about people than special effects, more about relationships than chases. And in the Academy Awards season that just closed, all three went a long way toward ending the division of human beings into the powerful but made-up categories of race and gender. âŚ
Editorsâ Note: March 2, 2017
Because of a misunderstanding by the editors, it was discovered only after publication that this article reproduces in substantial part an essay by the same writer that appeared on the Womenâs Media Center website in 2007 and was republished by other outlets. It is not The Timesâs policy to print previously published work without attribution. In addition, the article referred incorrectly to the timing of a flight during which âchick flicksâ were mentioned. It was not ârecently,â the flight having occurred in 2007.