“On the other hand I can imagine being offended if I’m excluded from those screenings, particularly because Wonder Woman herself has a very, very passionate fan base, many of whom are men.”

Jenkins added that she thinks many male comic book movie fans already “feel disenfranchised from their own gender or their own identity. And I would never want to leave them out of anything, you know?”

Ultimately, however, she said that she thinks the screenings are “wonderful”. “I could switch to either side of the argument, but… there have not been that many female-skewed things and certainly there have been many, many male. So I celebrate that.”

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Women at this Wonder Woman screening were given wildly sexist gift bags