Marvel Is Looking For A Female Director For BLACK WIDOW - Here's Who The Studio Has Met With So Far

@PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - Seconded, Lexi Alexander

@PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - @Montross

I came to say Lexi ALexander as well.

@regularmovieguy - what does that matter?

@fundamentallyOT "If they do, and they are as capable as them, bring it on! "

Even if they grew up and decided to become doctors?

@CavalierTunes - So shall we also restrict it so women can't direct stories about male characters? And black people can't direct stories about asian/white/mexican/etc. people? And vice versa?

That's inane. Why would anyone want that?

@OptionFour - White male is the default. 95% of films are from that perspective. Even if you’re not a white dude, media is almost exclusively from the white male perspective, so you have a pretty good context for how to direct a movie with a white male lead. Whereas, as a white dude, I can’t easily see things from the perspective of a woman or a person of color.

Also . . . how many movies are there with white leads but black directors? Or male leads with female directors? Not very many. So your analogy doesn’t quite work.

Whether you want to admit it or not, by virtue of being a woman, a female director will bring a perspective to a movie that 95% of male directors cannot.

@CavalierTunes - Yay - cinematic segregation

@Radders - more like cinematic BFOQ.

@OptionFour - no. That’s not “by my own logic.” You lack nuance.

What you fail to realize is that white male is the default. I’m a white guy, but I concede that the “white male perspective” is 99% of everything we already see on TV. It’s the default. Creating a movie from the white male perspective is creating a default movie with the default perspective. That’s something any director could do.

If Society treated all people equally, then everything you said would be 100% valid. The fact is, though, Society treats people differently. How would a white guy know anything about the black perspective, or the female perspective unless he was raised under some very unique circumstances? Whereas, a black man or a woman could easily direct a movie from a white man’s perspective, because that’s the default. That’s 95% of what he sees when he watches movies or TV.

And, besides, exactly how many movies out there star a white man but we’re directed by someone who’s not white anyway? Some, sure—but relatively negligible.

Acting like there’s no difference between people because of their race or gender is an ignorant attitude. Ideally there would be no difference. And, in a vacuum, there isn’t. But, the fact is, Society treats us different. Two people could be identical twins born with the same brain but, if (by some quirk that is the opposite of what “identical” means) one was black and one was white, or one was a man and one was a woman, they would have very different experiences.

We must recognize that was people of color and women experience is very different than what we as white men experience. The deal with racism and sexism differently than we ever will. Ignoring that is ignoring the fact that we have privilege.

At this point, I’m ending this conversation unless you reply with something that feels like it’s a legitimate question or a perspective I hadn’t considered. I am not going to engage in a debate that pretty much consists of you indirectly insulting me. What we’r approaching here is an ideological split. I understand you perspective, although I disagree. But your comment shows that you do not understand my perspective; you think you do (I’m guessing based on the videos of someone like Ben Shapiro), but you do not.

If you’d like to have a conversation that comes from a place of understanding—or at least trying to—instead of a place of trying to win a debate, I’m open. Otherwise, I will not respond further.

@Menks123 - Thanks Menks123 just about to post that. She or Lexi Alexander I would think have the best experience for this...