Women Tell Man Not To Mansplain “Men In Black” To Them, Turns Out He’s The Writer
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Amuse me for a second. Let’s say you’ve written one of the biggest blockbusters. It becomes a cult classic and you’ve boosted Will Smith’s career. Your movie is so popular, people still talk about it 23 years after its release. You overhear one of these conversations and it turns out, two women are arguing over the story. You politely swoop in, offer to settle the disagreement but in a plot twist, they not only reject you but accuse you of mansplaining as well. Sounds surreal. Sounds like this could be a whole new movie script. Maybe a short one, but still. However, this is exactly what happened to Ed Solomon, the writer of Men In Black. Continue scrolling and learn how everything unfolded in Ed’s own words!
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“They were saying that someone from where one of them works looked like ‘the old guy from Men In Black’ and the other said she didn’t know it ’cause she didn’t watch comic book movies and the first girl said it wasn’t a comic book movie,” Solomon told Bored Panda.
In reality, the iconic movie was adapted from The Men In Black comic book series, created by Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers. The original storyline revolved around a secret government organization that policed various alien and supernatural threats to Earth. Only six issues were published between 1990 and 1991 before Hollywood picked it up and turned the cool story into a popular movie.
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“I meant to introduce myself and tell them – but as soon as the first girl made a joke to her friend about being mansplained to (it was a joke she made, not really an admonition to me), I got a phone call and stepped away,” he explained. “When my call was over, one girl had left and the other was coming out of the bathroom.”
But that wasn’t the end of it. “The girl was a kid. In high school. She reached out to me after seeing my tweet on Reddit. She was very sweet. We had several very lovely exchanges and laughed about it. And she felt bad about her joke. Honestly, if I hadn’t have gotten the phone call, we would have continued the conversation there and that would have been that.”
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The screenwriter almost never runs into similar situations. “Maybe once or twice a year, I overhear someone talking about something I worked on. I see it on Twitter more – where people will comment on something (positive or negative) without knowing I’m seeing it.”
With the script for Men In Black, Solomon entered the A-list of Hollywood writers and the hall of fame of the pop culture, setting his signature style of visually innovative, intelligent, character-based comedy. And he’s been keeping himself busy ever since. But in 2016, after decades of writing mega-budget studio science fiction, action, and comedy, Ed immersed himself in drama, teaming up with director Steven Soderbergh and HBO for the original interactive long-form branching narrative Mosaic, starring Sharon Stone.
Now, he’s writing a second project in the branching narrative format for producers Steven Soderbergh and Casey Silver.
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The story instantly went viral, so Ed continued sharing his two cents on the matter
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I’m always amused when people use “white guy” in a derogatory manner, and they don’t think they are being racist.
Yup. The best is when you call them on it and they tell you they're not being racist because ONLY white people CAN be racist. I used to try to explain how the second statement was also racist, but quickly learned there was little point.
That's called hypocrisy my friend.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained with stupidity.
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Exactly. This story is about a racist sexist. There is no excuse for it and they should always be called out.
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Just calling someone "white" is racist. Try calling an Oriental "yellow". You can't even call them Oriental (which means "Easterner") anymore because PC culture has granted the Mongoloid race an entire continent.
Oriental isn't a very gracious term, no. It's grouping the entire East into one clump, which it plainly is not, as anyone with the slightest glean of geography and understanding of varying cultures could tell you. I'm sure you know--but perhaps it gives you some sort of occidental air of satisfaction to pretend you think entire groups of people can be parceled into something, as a mode to demean them? Unclear. You started by chastising calling someone "white" and ended your statement calling the entire East the Mongoloid race. C'mon Jim.
idk who said it but its accurate imo ,,pc culture is fascism pretending to be manners''
Jim, "oriental" is highly offensive. It's obvious YOU are in no position to judge others on this topic
so the woman now just saw a white men who want to say Something and says she doesn't want to hear it? just reverse it... if it was a woman who was put down like that was it ok? why it's ok then for men? some woman shit on men like it's right but they act just like other shitty mens do.
Yes Samantha Lomb Ive personally dealt with women who knew more about kids than me when one of them had never even held a baby till she had her first with me at 29
Down vote KitKat all you like, she has a point. Just reverse it...please.
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The point is you CAN'T "just reverse it". To reverse it you have to build in the literally DECADES of bullshit these women have been getting from men, plus a lot more besides, and you can't do that. "Just reverse it" is a fallacy. I think the women were unnecessarily rude but you are so much oversimplifying the issue every time you say some version of "imagine if this situation was completely different in a way that doesn't exist in the world". It's not the same. Women have been held as and treated as inferior to men for centuries. Unless that's emulated towards men, then it cannot be reversed.
People like you have no problem with discrimination in itself, but only with being discriminated. You don't care about making the world a better place, you only want your chance at being the bully.
it's not right for the woman for being bullied the way they've being bullied over the past centuries, but it's not ok for woman to bully mens either. peoples who've being bullied Don't get better person if they bullies other once they grow up.
Hey, here's an idea. Stop generalizing all men into one group. Just like I don't generalize all women into the feminazi group.
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Women don't tend to butt in the same way, unless its a conversation about something like kids. Then yes the woman should also be told to butt out
Women don't butt in? That's hilarious. People overhear and draw conclusions. The difference is some people speak up and an even smaller group is open for an actual discussion. Dismissing anyone is just dismissing an opportunity to learn. Mansplaining started as an expression for men explaining women's issues. Now it's just any white dude saying something. Blegh.
I love how people in the comments are defending the womens' behavior. Do they hear themselves?
They can't hear anything when their heads are way up their own asses. A Bunch of automatons.
the actual guy who it happened to defended them
I’m always amused when people use “white guy” in a derogatory manner, and they don’t think they are being racist.
Yup. The best is when you call them on it and they tell you they're not being racist because ONLY white people CAN be racist. I used to try to explain how the second statement was also racist, but quickly learned there was little point.
That's called hypocrisy my friend.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained with stupidity.
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Exactly. This story is about a racist sexist. There is no excuse for it and they should always be called out.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Just calling someone "white" is racist. Try calling an Oriental "yellow". You can't even call them Oriental (which means "Easterner") anymore because PC culture has granted the Mongoloid race an entire continent.
Oriental isn't a very gracious term, no. It's grouping the entire East into one clump, which it plainly is not, as anyone with the slightest glean of geography and understanding of varying cultures could tell you. I'm sure you know--but perhaps it gives you some sort of occidental air of satisfaction to pretend you think entire groups of people can be parceled into something, as a mode to demean them? Unclear. You started by chastising calling someone "white" and ended your statement calling the entire East the Mongoloid race. C'mon Jim.
idk who said it but its accurate imo ,,pc culture is fascism pretending to be manners''
Jim, "oriental" is highly offensive. It's obvious YOU are in no position to judge others on this topic
so the woman now just saw a white men who want to say Something and says she doesn't want to hear it? just reverse it... if it was a woman who was put down like that was it ok? why it's ok then for men? some woman shit on men like it's right but they act just like other shitty mens do.
Yes Samantha Lomb Ive personally dealt with women who knew more about kids than me when one of them had never even held a baby till she had her first with me at 29
Down vote KitKat all you like, she has a point. Just reverse it...please.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
The point is you CAN'T "just reverse it". To reverse it you have to build in the literally DECADES of bullshit these women have been getting from men, plus a lot more besides, and you can't do that. "Just reverse it" is a fallacy. I think the women were unnecessarily rude but you are so much oversimplifying the issue every time you say some version of "imagine if this situation was completely different in a way that doesn't exist in the world". It's not the same. Women have been held as and treated as inferior to men for centuries. Unless that's emulated towards men, then it cannot be reversed.
People like you have no problem with discrimination in itself, but only with being discriminated. You don't care about making the world a better place, you only want your chance at being the bully.
it's not right for the woman for being bullied the way they've being bullied over the past centuries, but it's not ok for woman to bully mens either. peoples who've being bullied Don't get better person if they bullies other once they grow up.
Hey, here's an idea. Stop generalizing all men into one group. Just like I don't generalize all women into the feminazi group.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Women don't tend to butt in the same way, unless its a conversation about something like kids. Then yes the woman should also be told to butt out
Women don't butt in? That's hilarious. People overhear and draw conclusions. The difference is some people speak up and an even smaller group is open for an actual discussion. Dismissing anyone is just dismissing an opportunity to learn. Mansplaining started as an expression for men explaining women's issues. Now it's just any white dude saying something. Blegh.
I love how people in the comments are defending the womens' behavior. Do they hear themselves?
They can't hear anything when their heads are way up their own asses. A Bunch of automatons.
the actual guy who it happened to defended them