If a dang dirty male like Spielberg made mostly women movies feminists will accuse him of "mansplaining" or "appropriating women voices".
I just realized something about Bob and Spielberg. Spielberg's the one director Bob will white knight at every opportunity. Here's him writing off Elizabeth Banks's complaints as "a joke" (How feminist):
And here he is writing off someone else's complaints about Todd Haynes's upcoming film Wonderstruck being too cloying:
And so, you may ask, "What are you getting here with this slice of Autism?" Well, here's my theory:
With Bob, Spielberg is to movies what Mario is to vidya.
Think about it, considering Bob's manchild tastes in everything, it only makes sense he'd gravitate to Spielberg because 1.) The 80s and 2.) His movies' sentimental, simplistic views towards life. As such, any movie by him gets a free pass just because of the nostalgia Bob attached to his name, even the ones he listed as "problematic":
As such, consider Bob: Given the innumerable amounts of pop culture garbage he ingested as a kid, he'd taken Spielberg's viewpoints (simplistic, black & white morality), distorted it through his autism and applied it to his own perspective on the world.
Add in a bunch of other factors, such as his unwillingness to tackle artsier, more challenging films, and it's a pretty interesting theory that Spielberg's the film equivalent of Mario to him, and he'll defend him to the bitter end.
(P.S. This is all coming from a guy who likes Spielberg.)
