In the 1989 film Fields of Dreams, a young man hears a voice telling him: “If you build it, he will come.” With a bit of tweaking, a similar motto could be applied to 2017: “If you organise a cool women-only event, the whiny men’s rights activists will come.”

This week, a lot of men with too much time on their hands have been getting their knickers in a twist about a women-only screening of the new Wonder Woman film. The Alamo Drafthouse cinema in Austin, Texas, had organised the event with the promise that everyone there would be female and female-identifying – from the audience to the staff working behind the scenes.

“Apologies, gentlemen, but we’re embracing our girl power and saying ‘No Guys Allowed’ for one special night at the Alamo Ritz,” the cinema’s promotional spiel reads. “And when we say ‘Women (and People Who Identify As Women) Only,’ we mean it. Everyone working at this screening — venue staff, projectionist, and culinary team — will be female.”

Men are crying bitter, bitter tears after this cinema organised a women-only Wonder Woman screening