North Country. Cripes I loved it. Did you?

Question

Did it effect any changes in the US/Canada?

Answer 1

Of course you loved it.

The knuckle-dragging male cretins were put in their place by the sassy-take-no-prisoners-tough-chick.

They made the movie for people like you that crave sexist empowerment like this.

The formula is simple:

Show men as unintelligent, oppressive, and sexist juxtaposed next to "strong women" that fight those evil Neandrethals.

It's like a feminist propaganda piece.

The Men's Right's Activist equivalent movie would be:

A man is forced into parenthood by a woman that tricked him by telling him she was "on the pill"  

The woman would then sleep with his best friend, his father, and then set his Porsche on fire.

...The wronged man would fight the system to get a "financial abortion" in a feminist indoctrinated court system that usually offers up nothing but chivalry to female criminal offenders.

He'd win the battle in the end and men everywhere would feel empowered and embittered towards women.

Easy Peasy.

EDIT:

Lyanthya...

I know you hate it when your house of cards is shaken, but expect me to keep shaking it.

Both men and women deal with discrimination, double standards, and sexism.

A movie like this reinforces the false feminist view that only women are discriminated against.

I'm not going to sit quietly by as people blow sunshine at it when I know how damaging this sort of anti-male feminist sexism is to society.

The male movie alternative I gave is an example of how men could thrash women to gain sympathy, but strangely enough... No one in Hollywood would ever tell that story.

Female victimhood just sells better thanks to the feminist browbeating.

Answer 2

What is it and why would it cause any changes here?

Never mind I looked it up.  It's a movie.  I've never heard of it.  I see why this got asked here now.  I don't think I'll be watching it because I think Charlize Theron can't act her way out of a paper bag.

What kind of changes need to be made?  There's already affirmative action laws in place to get more women in male-dominated jobs.

Answer 3

Wasn't it based on a true story? If that was the case, then it seemed accurate enough. This is indeed what happened to a lot of women in the blue-collar world in the late '80s.