Maybe you can hear in those quotes how alive Dederer's own critical language is. But as Claire Dederer points out in her superb new book, Monsters, the problem arises when great art is made by men who've done bad things: men like Picasso, Hemingway, Roman Polanski, Miles Davis, Woody Allen and, yes, Mailer.ĭo we put blinders on and just focus on the work? Do geniuses, as Dederer asks, get a "hall pass" for their behavior? Or, do we "cancel" the art of men - and some women - who've done "monstrous" things? If Mailer's writing had always been as bad as his sporadic behavior there would be no problem. The situation was reversed at the conference itself: When I confessed in my talk that, much as I revere Mailer's nonfiction writing, I was just as glad never to have met him, some audience members were taken aback, offended on Mailer's behalf.
What was I doing speaking at a conference in honor of a man capable of such an act? When I mentioned this conference in class to my Georgetown students, a couple of them blurted out, "But, he stabbed his wife." I could feel the mood in that classroom shifting: The students seemed puzzled, disappointed even. There's undoubtedly some relation there: Diverse interviewers might ask more diverse questions.Last month, I gave a talk at a conference in honor of the late writer Norman Mailer. Larson made a comment to Marie Claire about wanting more diversity in film journalism, saying, "About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male." She made it a point to try and have more inclusive interviews, especially including women of color. In fact, Larson's press tour garnered a fair share of its own controversy at the time, though for a slightly different - but related - reason. "I think it's all about the commodification of something positive," she said. The same question again and again and again and again." While Sonnenshine loved Captain Marvel and the female empowerment inherent in it, she disliked that the press focused solely on the gender aspect and that Marvel was trying to sell it. She was frustrated that they didn't have anything else to ask, saying, "I could picture Brie Larson trying to answer these questions.
GIRLS GET IT DONE MOVIE
It's a storyline that carries through the season, with their in-universe movie Dawn of the Seven getting its own awkwardly forced girl power moment, and ends in the finale when Frenchie (Tomer Capon) proclaims, "Girls do get it done," as they beat up Stormfront. The episode 2 scene shows journalists asking them about their relationship status and "Can you tell us a little about how girls get it done?" and "Do girls make better heroes than boys?" repeatedly. With newcomer Stormfront joining The Seven at the beginning of the season, publicist Ashley (Colby Minifie) capitalizes on the team's three women members by forcing them into a press junket centered on the new slogan. It's been compared endlessly to the controversial all-female superhero moment in Avengers: Endgame that inspired the fight scene, but the bit only works so well because it's set up from the very beginning. Fans probably remember the cheesy Vought slogan for the satisfying beatdown scene in the season 2 finale, when Starlight, Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), and Maeve (Dominique McElligott) channel their inner Power Puff Girls to kick Stormfront into the ground.
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