The Mary Sue: Hustlers is all the rage on Twitter right now, and for good reason. It’s a wonderful movie about women working at Moves, a strip club in Manhattan, who realize that they’re giving most of their earnings back to the club rather than their own pocket. Throughout the movie, these characters struggle against the men who are profiting off their bodies, and so, they take a stand against them—albeit not in the best of ways, but they are trying to reclaim their earnings and their rights, and this is very much their story.
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I have not seen Hustlers, but I am all for a good story of women having a good time without men interfering. For this reason, I really loved the movie Ocean's Eight. Just women working with women and a man played for a sucker. Ocean's Eight was unrealistic, perhaps, but it felt so good to see women on screen talking about more than food and sex and men and staying pretty. It felt so good to see more than white women on screen. It felt so good to see women succeed without the "help" of men, to see them succeed as independent women and not props to male protagonists. It is more films like these we need. And men don't have to be played for suckers all the time, but it sure can be fun to watch. Maybe one day I will see Hustlers. Maybe I'll feel good about it.
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