2009-03-14

tzikeh: (watchmen - rorschach - politics)
2009-03-14 02:46 pm

Since, apparently, I didn't have enough to be angry about today.


[livejournal.com profile] mtgat posted a segment of An Open Letter From WATCHMEN Screenwriter David Hayter, in which he is asking the fans who saw it on opening weekend to see it again. He is astoundingly blind to the hatefully misogynistic language he is using. Likely, there will be spoilers in the comments (there's a very mild one in the quote).

I'll quote it too. Warning: possible triggers. All emphases mine or mtgat's. )

The fact that David Hayter is a vile, loathsome, abhorrent mass of human-shaped excrement doesn't necessarily mean I won't eventually see the movie. My sense is that he does not have a part of the profit-sharing; as he is a screenwriter, my bet is that his salary is paid already. But this is quite the public display of ingrained and unconscious misogyny, and I think that when people say things like this, it should be publicized as much as possible, and that the vilification and condemnation should be spread far and wide.