Bretibart: Leslie Jones’ new movie,Masterminds, cracks jokes about how the actress looks like a man, and yet no one involved in the film’s production has been suspended from social media for the offense.
Masterminds centers on the true-life tale of David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), a bumbling armored-truck driver who unwittingly becomes a pawn in one of the largest bank heists in history.
The movie — which also stars Ghostbusters alumni Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig — sat unreleased for nearly a year as its studio, Relativity, was forced to reorganize after a much-publicized bankruptcy. It gets released in more than 3,000 theaters this weekend.
As the (decidedly mixed) early reviews for the film indicate, Masterminds repeatedly pokes fun at Jones’ appearance. As reviewers in Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and IndieWire note in their write-ups, Jones, who plays an FBI investigator assigned to the case, is often the target of jokes about how she looks “like a dude.”
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No rush, Twitter. Take your time. It’s not like you have any credibility left to lose.
Those jokes about Leslie are funny because they are TRUE.
“Looks” like a man?
Wait…
What???
Well he is a man, at least he was in the Airplane and Naked Gun movies.
Even worse, she looks manlier than most men!
I never say a woman looks like a man. I say “Dude looks like a lady”.
Lesley Jokes? I thought that was Charles Stanley Dutton in drag.
What chu mean she look like a dude? I be thinkin’ she was a dude!
Not funny it it’s true.