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    Austin Mayor Responds To Man Angry About 'Wonder Woman' Screening

    "I hope every man will boycott Austin," the man wrote. The mayor's response? "Your email account has been hacked. ... this person's uninformed and sexist rantings give you a bad name."
    by Laurel Wamsley Jun 01, 2017 3 minutes
    Mayor of Austin, Texas, Steve Adler responded to a shrill letter writer on his website today. Above, Adler during the 2017 SXSW Conference in March. / Robert A Tobiansky / Getty Images

    As the Two-Way reported earlier this week, some men are quite perturbed about a women-only screening of Wonder Woman at an Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Austin, Texas.

    The theater responded with some finely crafted posts on Facebook and Twitter, and by scheduling women-only screenings in Brooklyn and Northern Virginia, too.

    One man was so angry about the screening that he wrote a letter to . In addition to writing some — ahem —, the man threatened to not grace Austin with his presence.

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