The Real Reasons Why So Many White Women Watch That Melania Documentary

The turnout is a cultural lesson in how women are taught to endure, rationalize, and remain loyal to power even as it becomes more openly cruel.

The box office numbers weren’t the most interesting part of that Melania documentary. The audience was. Because audiences don’t just choose stories. They choose reflections.

Long before opening weekend, this documentary had already been engineered to make people feel something, whether that feeling was curiosity, mockery, loyalty, or cultural defiance. T…