Rebel Wilson faces a backlash after his comment "bigger rom-com lead"

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Rebel Wilson was thumped Thursday for declaring herself the first plus size woman to direct a romantic comedy. (His new film Is not it romantic come out next Valentine's Day.)

She was wrong: Queen Latifah and Mo-Nicique, for example, have badumed such roles in the past.

Instead of admitting his blunder and moving on, it seems that Wilson is blocking people who have reported his mistake on Twitter. In particular, many color critics – many of whom have evoked the comments of Queen Latifah and Mo'Nic – were blocked by Wilson over the weekend. (Mo 'nique herself encouraged Wilson to "take a moment and get to know the story", but to our knowledge, she was not blocked.)

ReBecca film and television critic Theodore-Vachon even gave him a hashtag: #RebelWilsonBlockedMe. (There are a lot of tweets about it that do not use the hashtag as well.)

Wilson did tweet in an answer playwright Claire Willett on Saturday that she will discuss what happened "by promoting[[[[Is not it romantic]in the appropriate forums. "

"I have never intended to erase the exploits of anyone and I love you so much, you and Queen Latifah, x," she also tweeted in response to critics of Mo-Nique. "I support all plus size women and everything we do together."

So maybe excuses are coming, but it 's still a sequence of troubling events for several reasons. First, a quick Google search reveals that Wilson's original statement is not true: did she do a search? Then Wilson's choice to block people of color to criticize her makes her seem not only willing to listen, but also to listen to voices different from hers.

"We must rise," Willett wrote on Twitter, "and that means equitably crediting the women who came first."