After Accidental Troll-Feeding, Kevin Smith Reprimands Misogynists

[ismnotwasm]

I should say I like most Kevin Smith movies; he's on my short list of directors that I'll usually watch. "Red State" was genius, along with "Kevin Smith Burns in Hell" In "Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back" there's plenty of sexism and homophobia (the movie was protested by GLAAD) but presented in the ironic buffoonery seen in Dogma. Still I understand the point. At the end of the the movie, it even made fun of itself.

Anyway, Smith is a twitter guy , and it's heartening to here him put out there "if you like my stuff, you like women.

If you had to pick a Kevin Smith movie that fans would rally to defend from a blogger's dismissive comment with misogynistic Twitter fervor, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back probably wouldn't be on your shortlist. But the internet can often be a small, mean place — a dank tunnel full of blindly groping mole people trying really hard to make themselves heard in an almost total vacuum of perspective — which is part of the explanation for how Kevin Smith came to post a long super-apologetic chronicle of that time he commented on a blog post and unwittingly propped open the floodgates of internet misogyny. Big whoops.

Here's what happened. Bracing for the massive end-of-year Netflix streaming purge, Death and Taxes blogger Maggie Serota wrote a brief roundup on Friday of the fine films that the cabal of dementors that decide what gets streamed on Netflix have slated for a DVD-only existence. In her post, Serota included this completely disposable jab at one of Kevin Smith's more derided flicks: "'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' is included in the purge, but absolutely no one will miss that one."

In a wonderful twist, however, Kevin Smith commented on Serota's post with what can only fairly be described as a good-natured, "Thanks for the free plug, Mags!" What??? Famous people read the internet? IMPROBABLE! And yet, the proof was right there, next to the avatar of Kevin Smith doing mouth stuff to his adorable dog.

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IF YOU LIKE MY STUFF, THEN YOU LIKE WOMEN
Saturday 28 December 2013 @ 6:09 pm
And if you like women, NEVER call them “cunts”. Or get vulgar with them at all. And if you like me or my stuff at all, then NEVER express yourself to ANYONE – woman or man – in misogynistic terms. This is important to me. Even before I was married and had a daughter, this was important to me. The Jay character aside, I’ve always tried to imbue the characters in my flicks with nothing but respect for women. If my movies have made you feel it’s okay to reduce another human being by labeling them a “bitch” or a “cunt”, then I was an even worse filmmaker than I thought.

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[nomorenomore08]

1. Always nice to find out that a talented artist is a good person too...