Austin Mayor Brilliantly Responds to Boycott Threat Over City’s All-Female ‘Wonder Woman’ Screening
She’s not the only hero.
What was intended as a light-hearted occasion—an all-female screening of DC’s new Wonder Woman movie at a movie theater in Austin, Texas—has instead turned into a battleground.
Men who still get angry over “No Boys Allowed” signs were up in arms, decrying “reverse sexism” and calling for boycotts of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. “Great, let us know when you have guys-only screenings of Thor, Spider-Man, Star Wars, etc.,” wrote one embittered troll on Alamo’s Facebook page.
Another, a writer named Richard A. Ameduri, was so devastated for the male sex, he wrote a poison-pen letter to the Mayor of Austin calling for a wholesale boycott of the city. “Name something invented by a woman!” he shrilly demands at one point.
Mayor Steve Adler responded in a far more eloquent letter and then posted their ridiculous exchange to his website, and the whole thing is incredible.
Below, read Ameduri make the preemptive strike.
I hope every man will boycott Austin and do what he can to diminish Austin and to cause damage to the city’s image. The theater that pandered to the sexism typical of women will, I hope, regret it’s decision. The notion of a woman hero is a fine example of women’s eagerness to accept the appearance of achievement without actual achievement. Women learn from an early age to value make-up, that it’s OK to pretend that you are greater than you actually are. Women pretend they do not know that only men serve in combat because they are content to have an easier ride. Women gladly accept gold medals at the Olympics for coming in 10th and competing only against the second class of athletes. Name something invented by a woman! Achievements by the second rate gender pale in comparison to virtually everything great in human history was accomplished by men, not women. If Austin does not host a men only counter event, I will never visit Austin and will welcome it’s deterioration. And I will not forget that Austin is best known for Charles Whitman. Does Austin stand for gender equality or for kissing up to women? Don’t bother to respond. I already know the answer. I do not hate women. I hate their rampant hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of the “women’s movement.” Women do not want gender equality; they want more for women. Don’t bother to respond because I am sure your cowardice will generate nothing worth reading.
Now read Mayor Steve Adler’s brilliantly-worded response.
Dear Mr. Ameduri,
I am writing to alert you that your email account has been hacked by an unfortunate and unusually hostile individual. Please remedy your account’s security right away, lest this person’s uninformed and sexist rantings give you a bad name. After all, we men have to look out for each other!
Can you imagine if someone thought that you didn’t know women could serve in our combat units now without exclusion? What if someone thought you didn’t know that women invented medical syringes, life rafts, fire escapes, central and solar heating, a war-time communications system for radio-controlling torpedoes that laid the technological foundations for everything from Wi-Fi to GPS, and beer? And I hesitate to imagine how embarrassed you’d be if someone thought you were upset that a private business was realizing a business opportunity by reserving one screening this weekend for women to see a superhero movie.
You and I are serious men of substance with little time for the delicate sensitivities displayed by the pitiful creature who maligned your good name and sterling character by writing that abysmal email. I trust the news that your email account has been hacked does not cause you undue alarm and wish you well in securing your account. And in the future, should your travels take you to Austin, please know that everyone is welcome here, even people like those who wrote that email whose views are an embarrassment to modernity, decency, and common sense.
Yours sincerely,
Steve Adler
The furor isn’t working. Alamo Drafthouse has reportedly added more women’s only screenings.
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