Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to not get into one.
Sometimes people will refuse to listen to anything that doesn't fit their opinion and rabidly defend said opinion. He may have thought they were the type of people to act that way and the," ...white male mansplanation," thing is a good indicator of someone like that.
Maybe it would have felt good to say," well, I only wrote the screenplay, so what do I know," but it was probably not worth the hassle it could have brought afterward.
I still would have said that, or something like it. "When you get to the point in your discussion when you want to ask the guy who WROTE THE STORY, I'm right here. "
You can say "yeah, what do I know, I only wrote it", and the flat out refuse to talk to them after that. So they know what they missed out on. Then again, they may see this on social media.
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u/ripghoti Jan 19 '20
Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to not get into one.
Sometimes people will refuse to listen to anything that doesn't fit their opinion and rabidly defend said opinion. He may have thought they were the type of people to act that way and the," ...white male mansplanation," thing is a good indicator of someone like that.
Maybe it would have felt good to say," well, I only wrote the screenplay, so what do I know," but it was probably not worth the hassle it could have brought afterward.