Michael Moore Tries To Prove Women Are Better Than Men, Gets Brilliantly Shut Down By A Woman
There are plenty of badass women but Academy-Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore thinks there aren’t any bad ones. “No women ever invented an atomic bomb, built a smokestack, initiated a Holocaust, melted the polar ice caps or organized a school shooting,” Moore tweeted. Missing logic in his men vs. women claims, writer Jessica Ellis wrote an insightful rebuttal to Moore, and her Twitter response quickly went viral.
While attacking the patriarchy, Moore suggested that women are better than men in living up to universal moral standards. “My initial response was actually very personal,” Ellis, who considers herself a feminist, told Bored Panda. “I had been struggling with anxiety issues and going to therapy, where I realized I thought the fact that I had dark thoughts sometimes made me a bad person. I had also come to realize that part of the reason I felt this gender gap is that women are raised on a doctrine of purity and that Moore (who I respect greatly as a filmmaker) was furthering that concept. When you are taught that all women are naturally sweet and wonderful, you can feel extra-extra crazy if you feel anger or depression or anxiety.”
And even though ladies have not held powerful political positions as much as men, Ellis perfectly points out why they struggle with making ethically just decisions, too. “It’s bad for women’s mental health to be held to an unrealistic purity standard.” After all, we’re all human! Scroll down to read her gender equality reasoning and let us know your thoughts about it in the comments.
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Academy-Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore tried to convince Twitter that there aren’t any bad women
But one lady wasn’t buying it
The internet quickly backed her up
Ellis would also like to add one more thing. “While I stand behind the point I was making, the tone is difficult on the internet, and I felt vaguely ashamed of speaking to a documentarian I respect so vehemently. On the other hand, this is hardly my first fiery rant about feminism, on Twitter or elsewhere, and I’m glad people connected to the message and hopefully understood that my anger was coming from a place of wanting to protect women from the dreaded pedestal, and not as an attack on [anyone].”
Point. Set. Match. Jessica Ellis is the winner by a landslide... Mr Moore... go home, stay there. You're done.
Queen Cercei Lannister ... another example of evil women :)
Created by a novelist whose fame as a feminist is known far and wide.
Except for the first mass shooting part. Look up Brampton Centennial School shooting, which was 1975. Brenda Spencer was in 1979.
Santiago, how do you think this is a competition? Or as you say, we are 'competting.' We aren't arguing, I was merely stating the facts.
He did not speak about first school shooting, he was speaking about any school shooting.
are you competting about this guys? really? sad competition
Mr. Moore will be fine. This may lead to a new movie, but he won't be silent. Unless you're one of the wealthy fungi who exists off the labor of others and whines about having to pay them, Michael has done a lot for you.
Does anyone know if Michael Moore responded with his tail tucked between his legs ??
Some of us are naturally blessed with a working 'STFU' gene, which tends to keep us out of trouble. Unfortunately Michael M. either lacks one altogether, or doesn't know how to apply it when necessary. 00-spitefu...82c6c3.gif
One does not end up with his weighty influence or weighty body with a functioning STFU gene.
Low blow. I wondered when someone was going to stoop to a fat-bashing comment, as though MM’s body size has anything to do with this discussion.
There is no such thing as STFU gene. Still, it could be that quite few United Statians (like I prefer to call them) dislike him because of his democratic, liberal with cosmopolitan views (which is not the mainstream in their current context). I think his intent was noble, despite unhappy examples, specially because patriarchy has been very opressive to women in many ways.
Micheal needs a STFU gene to keep him out of trouble? By trouble you mean a fortune, an Oscar, and worldwide fans? I'm not particularly fond of him, but goddamn if there's anybody on earth who was not meant to have that gene it's him.
Absolutely. I've been saying this for years. Women are not better nor worse than men. We are human and very flawed.
Point. Set. Match. Jessica Ellis is the winner by a landslide... Mr Moore... go home, stay there. You're done.
Queen Cercei Lannister ... another example of evil women :)
Created by a novelist whose fame as a feminist is known far and wide.
Except for the first mass shooting part. Look up Brampton Centennial School shooting, which was 1975. Brenda Spencer was in 1979.
Santiago, how do you think this is a competition? Or as you say, we are 'competting.' We aren't arguing, I was merely stating the facts.
He did not speak about first school shooting, he was speaking about any school shooting.
are you competting about this guys? really? sad competition
Mr. Moore will be fine. This may lead to a new movie, but he won't be silent. Unless you're one of the wealthy fungi who exists off the labor of others and whines about having to pay them, Michael has done a lot for you.
Does anyone know if Michael Moore responded with his tail tucked between his legs ??
Some of us are naturally blessed with a working 'STFU' gene, which tends to keep us out of trouble. Unfortunately Michael M. either lacks one altogether, or doesn't know how to apply it when necessary. 00-spitefu...82c6c3.gif
One does not end up with his weighty influence or weighty body with a functioning STFU gene.
Low blow. I wondered when someone was going to stoop to a fat-bashing comment, as though MM’s body size has anything to do with this discussion.
There is no such thing as STFU gene. Still, it could be that quite few United Statians (like I prefer to call them) dislike him because of his democratic, liberal with cosmopolitan views (which is not the mainstream in their current context). I think his intent was noble, despite unhappy examples, specially because patriarchy has been very opressive to women in many ways.
Micheal needs a STFU gene to keep him out of trouble? By trouble you mean a fortune, an Oscar, and worldwide fans? I'm not particularly fond of him, but goddamn if there's anybody on earth who was not meant to have that gene it's him.
Absolutely. I've been saying this for years. Women are not better nor worse than men. We are human and very flawed.