The Women Men Don't See See" was also nominated for the 1974 Locus Award for Best Short Story. PZ Myers describes the narrator of "Women" as not just unreliable, but "irrelevant"—"a man who comes along for the ride and really doesn't understand anything that's going on, because he can't see the real protagonists as anything but a couple of women." The Women Men Don't See The Women Men Don't See is a novelette written by Alice Bradley Sheldon under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. Originally published in "Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1973, it subsequently was republished in the magazine's October 1979 thirtieth anniversary issue,
Grumpier Old Men Men" beat its predecessor's total of $70 million and cost $10 million less to make than the original. The film was released in the United Kingdom on March 1, 1996. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on 18 reviews, with a rating average of 4.2/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a score of 46 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.