My answer to that would be that if a woman authors a work of art and anyone wants to tell her that, because she is a woman, that work of art should have been different and her choices are not good enough, then that is indeed unacknowledged sexist underpinnings limiting women's choices.
Jessica Taylor needs to think through her own attitudes and control issues.
To be clear, I have no dog in the fight and kind of don't care, but let's review what's been said and what I wrote.
1. The op seems to be: some nobody on the Internet criticized a movie that made some famous women's father the center of attention as being sexist. The op next seems to imply that because the famous women themselves were producing or created the story that it couldn't be sexist.
2. I commented skeptically that a thing can't be sexist merely because a woman has created it. I am not arguing about this specific case but instead the principle.
Yeah, I get that. Same principle as "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
But in this specific case Taylor is telling 2 women that they should have made choices according to her concepts.
I wish I could find that irony meter image.
Dr. Taylor is not obligated to find such a film inspiring, though. So two female athletes made a movie about their dad: fine, but is everybody suddenly obligated to care deeply about their private family life? Is everybody obligated to care what a great guy they think their dad is?
That doesn't mean it's a bad film, but it's obviously intended for a specific niche audience.
So Dr. Taylor wants to see a movie that is meant for people like her. That's fine. Maybe somebody will notice that she feels left out, and they will make another film that is more inspiring to the Dr. Taylors out there, who might have succeeded at life IN SPITE of their moms and dads dissing them for having dreams.
I had a shit relationship with my own blood relatives. Look, it wasn't their fault, but it was their fault, at the same time. My father had a brain tumor, and my mother's side of the family has a propensity for alcoholism, which makes act like them "mean drunks." The behavior problems caused by my father's brain tumor combined with ME being neurodivergent drove her to drink heavily, which made her act like an atrocious troll, which made my neurodivergence take a toxic route (under ideal conditions, we can be gifted, but we are like a high performance car that blows up if you put the wrong gasoline in it. I just blew up). Well, my family life was actually a waking nightmare. They were not people that loved me and supported me. They were people that I barely survived living with. My quality of life is not terrible, right now, but I got there in spite of them, not thanks to them. I don't want to make a movie to glorify my father. Even though I understand it wasn't his fault he was the way he was, I would sincerely rather stab him with a knife or run him over with a truck than do anything to glorify his reputation.
Not all of us are going to be able to relate to a film about someone's "dear, old dad." I get why some people have great relationships with their families, and if that was the experience those two athletes had when they were little girls, I don't think they're doing anything wrong. It's just a type of story that is hard for me to think about because it just makes me feel sad and broken.
Maybe the world shouldn't run itself based only on Dr. Taylor's preferences, but there are some people that want to deprive her of the right to even have a preference.