On social media, it seems like The Color Purple is really hated by black men. It's quite rare for there to be such a schism between the taste of black women & black men. Normally one gender might simply be indifferent to a movie loved by the other one, such as The Little mermaid remake, but in the case of TCP, several black men really don't like that the movie is portraying a black man as a douche (to put it lightly) which has caused radioactive WOM amongst them.