For years, talent has urged crowds to show up opening weekend to ensure the future of inclusive content, but Eichner’s series of tweets felt more like finger-wagging than an invitation.
turned heads when he tweeted Sunday, “straight people, especially in certain parts of the country just didn’t show up forThe tweets have not been well received. Eichner’s tweets felt more like finger-wagging followed by moralistic confrontation rather than an invitation with a bit of warning, if you compare them to Viola Davis’ more polite request last month to see: “If you don’t plop down money on opening weekend, you’re not going to see Black females leading a movie AGAIN.
I’m empathetic to the situation. It sucks to be passionate about something and not see that passion met by a willing audience. Yet, I think it’s clear from the numbers that the box office didn’t simply come down to straight people not going, or homophobia. Several critics suggested that people were turned off by a line in the trailer that said straight people “had a good run,” though I imagine that any straight person offended by that joke would never have seen the movie anyway. What Eichner is overlooking is that a significant population of the LGBTQ community didn’t show up either.
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