“Film blogger Jeffrey Wells has sparked outrage after suggesting that the forthcoming Leonardo DiCaprio film The Revenant will be unsuitable for female audiences due to its “unflinchingly brutal nature”.
“After attending an early preview screening of the film, which follows the revenge mission of a trapper left for dead during the old American west and is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wells sent out a tweet with fulsome praise of the film, and finished by stating: “Forget women seeing this.”
“Twitter users have called him “misogynist” and “sexist”.
“Wells defended himself on his Hollywood Elsewhere blog with a post headlined “Getting Clubbed Again By PC Twitter Goons Over Four Words”, saying he felt “like a wildebeest being surrounded and torn apart by hyenas or wild dogs”.”
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