Hanna Rosin apologizes for controversial tweet about Hulu’s ‘Fire Island’


Noah (Joel Kim Booster, left) and Will (Conrad Ricamora) almost kiss after a heated confrontation on "Fire Island."

Writer hanna rosin has been criticized for her criticism of the Hulu film “Fire Island,” thanks to a now infamous tweet.

“Fire Island” starring Joel Kim Booster, bowen-yang Y Margaret Cho, centers on a group of queer best friends vacationing in Fire Island Pines, a gay village in New York. Rosin, an author and audio editorial director at New York Magazine, rebuked the film’s female portrayal. on Twitter Mondaywriting that the LGBTQ rom-com gets “an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way.”

“Do we just ignore the monotonous lesbian stereotypes of cute gay Asian boys? Is this revenge for all those years of the gay boy’s best friend? Rosin wrote in the now-deleted tweet.

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The Bechdel Test is “a set of criteria used as a test to evaluate a work of fiction, such as a film, on the basis of its inclusion and portrayal of female characters.”

Twitter users were quick to respond to Rosin’s tweet, taking issue with her criticism of the film.

“you don’t have to tweet everything you think”, writer Esther Tseng answered. “Instead, you can think about the ways you focus on situations because you feel entitled and examine how you can become a better person.”




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