This issue has been on the table since at least 2016, when Meryl Streep implored the press to even the gender divide. "I submit to you that men and women are not the same,” Streep said during a press conference promoting Suffragette . “They like different things. Sometimes they like the same things, but their tastes diverge. If the Tomatometer is slided so completely to one set of tastes, that drives box office in the US, absolutely."