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Because all of this compromising we do as women, whether it's adjusting our movie expectations or something more, isn't helping. Encouraging the next generation of men to empathize with women needs to start at home. Which is absolutely not okay, I'm just now realizing.
Watson is absolutely right - I've seen it in my own home, to be honest I won't even attempt to watch a movie featuring a female protagonist when all of my sons are around. But for some reason, there's some kind of barrier there where are like, "I don't want to relate to a girl." I think it is inherently part of the problem. She pointed out in that same interview with Marie Claire: We see whoever is on screen and recognize the human qualities in the man that we relate to, and there's not such a gap. While men might be struggling to empathize with female-driven movies, Watson doesn't believe women have the same issue. Before the movie was even released, many men took to social media to pan the remake as a failure, refusing to even give it a chance. Fan boys everywhere may as well have started a "He-Man Woman-Haters Club" à la The Little Rascals. If you're searching for a possible example of men struggling to empathize with a female lead, look no further than the Ghostbusters reimagined all-female cast. I want it to look like me so that I can project myself onto the character." I think if you've been used to watching characters that look like, sound like, think like you, and then you see someone up on the screen, you go, "Well, that's a girl, she doesn't look like me. Anything that deviates from the norm is difficult to accept. Watson said in an interview with Marie Claire Australia that she believed it was hard for men to empathize with female protagonists in movies because they weren't able to identify with them: It's something they're not used to, and they don't like that.
And while that makes loads of sense, it's also relatively unacceptable. More specifically, according to Beauty and the Beast's Emma Watson, men won't watch female-led films because they can't relate. Unfortunately, some people might get caught up in the whole gender thing, and leave their empathy at the door for the opposite sex. Sure, we all like a little escapism too, but mostly I think we want to see a character in a book or on the screen and recognize something in them that we know about ourselves. We all know that entertainment is largely about human connection.