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Investing in Women: Why Hollywood Won't Do It
A young female producer says gender bias here lives on.
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Disney released a triptych of posters for this spring's "Alice in Wonderland" on Thursday. The posters give audiences a look at Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen, Anne Hathaway's White Queen, and Mia Wasikowska's Alice. Take a look at the avant-garde art for Tim Burton's upcoming 3D fantasy flick.
The revolution thickens.
The status quo is clearly a convenient arrangement for men, but I won't go as far as to say that the gender disparity in Hollywood is somehow purposely designed (even if willingly exploited). I don’t even believe that most of the sexist judgments I've felt from superiors and peers have been consciously delivered -- I’m willing to give the people who underestimate me based on my private parts the benefit of that doubt.
But you know what? It doesn't matter. We’ve become so complacent that a touch of extremism is warranted. You could never lose weight if you refused entertain the idea that cheeseburgers are fattening. Instead of waiting for someone to blaze a new trail, it’s time that we make a more conscious change in our appetite.
The Western world has hidden behind overt advances in equality and continued to treat women as subtly inferior for long enough. It may mean re-examining some of our deep-fried guilty pleasures, or at least balancing them out with a healthy dose of vitamin Ms.
“I want to make this world good … Why not? It’s possible.” -- Isabel Allende
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Blue Says
This one is easy to explain: Males are in constant competition with each other, trying to climb to that "Alpha Male" position. But since only one male can hold that position, the other males are left to find others to become Alpha to--and the easiest target is Women.
For a male it boils down to "If I can't put down the other males around me, at least I can put down the other gender."