Sexist trolls got mad about an all-women 'Wonder Woman' screening. The theater fired back.
On May 24, 2017, an Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Austin, Texas, announced it would host a special screening of the new "Wonder Woman" movie — for women only.
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"Apologies, gentlemen, but we're embracing our girl power and saying 'No Guys Allowed' for one special night at the Alamo Ritz," the theater wrote in a statement on its website.
The theater noted that the screening was open to all women — and would be helmed by an all-female staff.
"When we say 'Women (and People Who Identify As Women) Only,' we mean it. Everyone working at this screening — venue staff, projectionist, and culinary team — will be female."
But of course, it's 2017. And we can't have nice things anymore.
A Facebook post promoting the event was swiftly descended upon by Men on the Internet, who were furious that one thing in the world wasn't for them.
All post screenshots via Facebook.
Thankfully, like the legendary Amazon warrior herself, the Drafthouse and its crack social media staff came ready to fight.
The Drafthouse team spent the 24 hours following the announcement engaging in a glorious bit of jujitsu with its trolls, doing things like these:
Answering their ridiculous rhetorical questions!
Calling transphobes' bluffs!
And fending off charges of reverse sexism ... with jokes!
Needless to say, the decision to hold the screening also won a lot of praise from the theater's fans on social media.
There was also praise for how the Drafthouse responded to the haters.
Guys, men, dudes, bros: It's really not so hard not to make everything all about us.
We've already got major professional sports, the vast majority of speaking characters on film, and 100% of our presidents to date. We can give women a day to celebrate an iconic, boundary-breaking character and role model for several generations of women.
Thankfully, lots of men are already totally cool with this, as evidenced by the dozens who jumped into the comments to defend the screening.
In the meantime, props to the Alamo Drafthouse for holding the line.
From the looks of it, the trolls aren't spoiling the ladyparty.
Quite the opposite, in fact:
And kudos to the chain for doubling down nationwide.
"Providing an experience where women truly reign supreme has incurred the wrath of trolls only serves to deepen our belief that we're doing something right," says Morgan Hendrix, Alamo Drafthouse creative manager.
"As a result, we will be expanding this program across the country and inviting women everywhere to join us as we celebrate this iconic superheroine in our theaters."
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An Irish woman went to the doctor for a routine eye exam. She left with bright neon green eyes.
It's not easy seeing green.
Did she get superpowers?
Going to the eye doctor can be a hassle and a pain. It's not just the routine issues and inconveniences that come along when making a doctor appointment, but sometimes the various devices being used to check your eyes' health feel invasive and uncomfortable. But at least at the end of the appointment, most of us don't look like we're turning into The Incredible Hulk. That wasn't the case for one Irish woman.
Photographer Margerita B. Wargola was just going in for a routine eye exam at the hospital but ended up leaving with her eyes a shocking, bright neon green.
At the doctor's office, the nurse practitioner was prepping Wargola for a test with a machine that Wargola had experienced before. Before the test started, Wargola presumed the nurse had dropped some saline into her eyes, as they were feeling dry. After she blinked, everything went yellow.
Wargola and the nurse initially panicked. Neither knew what was going on as Wargola suddenly had yellow vision and radioactive-looking green eyes. After the initial shock, both realized the issue: the nurse forgot to ask Wargola to remove her contact lenses before putting contrast drops in her eyes for the exam. Wargola and the nurse quickly removed the lenses from her eyes and washed them thoroughly with saline. Fortunately, Wargola's eyes were unharmed. Unfortunately, her contacts were permanently stained and she didn't bring a spare pair.
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Since she has poor vision, Wargola was forced to drive herself home after the eye exam wearing the neon-green contact lenses that make her look like a member of the Green Lantern Corps. She couldn't help but laugh at her predicament and recorded a video explaining it all on social media. Since then, her video has sparked a couple Reddit threads and collected a bunch of comments on Instagram:
“But the REAL question is: do you now have X-Ray vision?”
“You can just say you're a superhero.”
“I would make a few stops on the way home just to freak some people out!”
“I would have lived it up! Grab a coffee, do grocery shopping, walk around a shopping center.”
“This one would pair well with that girl who ate something with turmeric with her invisalign on and walked around Paris smiling at people with seemingly BRIGHT YELLOW TEETH.”
“I would save those for fancy special occasions! WOW!”
“Every time I'd stop I'd turn slowly and stare at the person in the car next to me.”
“Keep them. Tell people what to do. They’ll do your bidding.”
In a follow-up Instagram video, Wargola showed her followers that she was safe at home with normal eyes, showing that the damaged contact lenses were so stained that they turned the saline solution in her contacts case into a bright Gatorade yellow. She wasn't mad at the nurse and, in fact, plans on keeping the lenses to wear on St. Patrick's Day or some other special occasion.
While no harm was done and a good laugh was had, it's still best for doctors, nurses, and patients alike to double-check and ask or tell if contact lenses are being worn before each eye test. If not, there might be more than ultra-green eyes to worry about.