When the film's creator, Pierre Coffin, was asked about the lack of female Minions, he told The Wrap, Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine Minions being girls.

For the French animator, who co-directed the new film with Kyle Balda, the masculine-only nature of the Minions owes to their all-around cloddishness. “Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are ...

Feminists might wonder why there are no female Minions. Said Coffin: "Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine Minions being girls." Good save. The plot, which would ...

Pierre Coffin, the French animator who created the minions and co-directed the new film with Kyle Balda, told The Wrap that “seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine ...