the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the National Transgender League(NTL) have successfully filed suit in the 9th circuit court of California to have Hollywood remove all gender specific references from films including the scripts, screen titles, and dialogues. "We believe these films perpetuate misogynistic stereotypes and convey an ethos of female inferiority and thats why we have worked so hard to achieve what we have achieved this day" stated Betty Frigid of NOW. "We have suffered so much in this country and in a male dominated world. by eliminating these references in gender specific films we can change the way people think and eliminate prejudice against women worldwide."
Several Hollywood executives who did not want to be named have stated that fan favorites such as 'Spiderman', 'Superman' and the 'X-Men' will all be refilmed and rewritten in order to comply with what they believe will be more politically correct and gyno safe dialogue. According to one exec 'SpiderPerson 4' will be out in 2010 and 'SuperPerson Returns' will debut in the spring 2011. Some obstacles will have to be overcome though in order to release 'X-Persons' because it sounds so vague and no one is sure if anyone would actually go see a movie with that title. "Its important that creative freedom and movie goer preferences be subject to a small minority of people who are easily offended " , stated one Hollywood Producer "we have even considered making superman... i mean person, a transsexual because they are really super people."
Of major concern is the film 'Men In Black' or 'MIB' which would have to be changed to 'Persons In Black'. many on the Hollywood inside just don't think it would do well. some fear that the only thing to do in order to prevent the spread of patriarchal structures through portrayal of female inferiority by the use of gender specific terms such as 'men', 'male' and 'man' is simply to burn all films and scripts that have these terms. it has been rumored that 'MIB' s digital master has been deleted already and that all thats left is to collect the remaining copies and destroy them. "we must stamp out all that is offensive for the greater good" stated Frigid.
in response to NOW and the NTL and what will eventually be a supreme court victory an online underground of black market for 'gender specific' films has quietly formed and has marked over a million downloads of 'SpiderMan' with the old title still unerased just in the last month. and the United States Marine Corp has petitioned the president to keep "A few good men" as a slogan despite righteous indignation of an angry minority.
the recent success of Batman has also been very very problematic. with so many people going to see the movie no women have come forward to complain about the title. "It will be changed to 'Bat Person'," said Frigid angrily. "if you think im going to stand by while women are shamed liked this your all crazy."
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