Like a weather pattern in reverse, the "year of the woman" trope has moved west from Washington, D.C. — where it is periodically used to describe female victories in the House and Senate — to Hollywood. Never mind that Bridesmaids came out in 2011, The New York Times Magazine says that 2012, with Katniss, Bella, Catwoman, Hush Puppy, and Anna Karenina, was the year of the woman. Excuse me, the year of "Hollywood heroine worship." But not because the movies with interesting female leads will win fancy awards, break box-office records, or were directed by women. They won't and they weren't. Acknowledging all that, critic A.O. Scott concludes that it's not so much the year of the woman as it is the year of woman as news. He's talking about all those "controversial" Atlantic, Time, and Newsweek covers, but really, he's talking about Lena Dunham. (Aren't we always?) And he doesn't make it sound like anything worth celebrating.
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