"sexism" Articles & Blogs:
Sexism Watch: Golden Globe Edition
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To the anonymous stylist who said this about Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and her dress:
“You don’t put a big girl in a big dress. That’s rule number one.”
FUCK YOU!
This woman is perfectly shaped! There is nothing big about her!
I hate y...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s Cinematographer Roundtable
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I guess I should thank the Hollywood Reporter for making my job easy this week by providing me with such blatantly sexist material.
They posted their conversation with cinematographers and SURPRISE there is not a single woman included.
I know that the...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: NY Post’s VA Musetto
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It seems that the fact that Abbie Cornish keeps her clothes on in Bright Star has so upset the NY Post so they had to remind readers that she has played other roles where she shows more skin.
If you just have to see the 27-year-old farmer’s daughter in...[Read on] |
Sexism and Masculinity in Disney Movies
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It’s not only the girls who are screwed up by the Disney movies with their princesses galore and pink sterotypes, it’s the boys who get it too.
Here’s a great video that pulls back the curtain on why these films screw with boys too.
Way to go Sa...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Hollywood Reporter’s List of Top Films of the Decade
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Now that we are about to enter 2010 everyone is looking back on the last decade and compiling lists upon lists. Here’s a list that caught my attention, The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Ten Movies of the Decade and not surprisingly, there is not a single...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Steinberg Playwright Awards
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It’s not enough to have clear statistics about how women are discriminated in theatre, but now a new award — The Steinberg Playwright Awards — given to “emerging” playwrights has decided that there is no woman good enough to qualify as emerging....[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: The 50 Best Shot Films of the Decade
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Ellen Kuras
The statistics on female cinematographers are abysmal. In 2009, only 2% of the top 250 US grossing films had a female cinematographer.
That would be 5 films. Five films out of 250. Pathetic.
And a woman has never been nominated for an ...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Yahoo’s 100 Movies to See Before You Die
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Yahoo just published a list compiled by its movie staff of the 100 movies you must see before you die.
ONLY ONE IS DIRECTED BY A WOMAN- Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Amy Heckerling.
Here’s the description of how they came up with the list:
Many mov...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Women missing on A.O. Scott’s list of great films
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This is just another reason why I have such trouble with the NY Times reviews. A.O. Scott put his subjective look at the “great” films from 2000 to now, and not surprisingly, only a lone female filmmaker (Claire Denis), and not one female centric ...[Read on] |
Sexism Alert: The Catfight Begins
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Peter Bart has never been known as being ahead of the curve on gender issues, so it’s not too surprising that his was the first column to begin pitting Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow in a girl-on-girl competition for year end awards for their films Br...[Read on] |
Mammamia! Italian Women Speak Out Against Sexism
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The United States, as well as many other countries, was created under a patriarchal foundation that women are constantly struggling with, and Italy is no exception. In fact, Italian women have to exist under triple threats of sexism: the government...[Read on] |
Sexism and ageism in the soap opera world
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I used to be a big fan of Days of our Lives. Big fan. Watched it on and off (mostly on) for about 15 years. A couple of years ago I went cold turkey. But soaps are in distress, Guiding Light was canceled and cost cutting is the mantra. Days of Our...[Read on] |
When sexism masquerades as humor
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In a great post over at the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Gina Barreca asks how women deal with sexual harassment or sexism dressed up as a joke. I love this conundrum, because it is SO fucking common. Who hasn't heard some appallingly sexist (or racist, or h...[Read on] |
Finally, A Woman Included in the Hollywood Reporter Roundtable
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A couple of weeks ago The Hollywood Reporter held two roundtable conversations that forgot to include any women. Whoops. One was with cinematographers and the other was with writers.
The good news is that in their most recent roundtable with director...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: The Jay Leno Show- Where are the Women Writers?
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Jay Leno does a lot of good things with his piles of money. He funds very important work being done to support women and girls in Afghanistan through the Feminist Majority, but as Nancy Franklin pointed out in a recent New Yorker story on his new show, ...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Double Dose
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Jeers to the Hollywood Reporter for convening a year end discussion with high-profile producers round-table without a SINGLE WOMAN! Please don’t tell me a single female producer was not available.
Here are two points, from the conversation of note:...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2009
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The editors of Publishers Weekly have thrown down the gauntlet picking the top 10 books of the year and SURPRISE they are all by guys.
Here’s what Louisa Ermelino said about how they chose the books:
From more than 50,000 volumes, we valiantly set out...[Read on] |
Good and Bad Literary News
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Let’s start with the good news.
Women dominate the long list for the Canadian award the Scotiabank Giller Prize. (The prize is named for former reporter Doris Giller.) On the list of 12, women make up 10 of the nominees.
The list includes:
Margare...[Read on] |
The ‘New’ Look of Caster Semenya
| Much has been written about the controversy regarding the sex verification testing of Caster Semenya following the IAAF Championships in August 2009 (to read more go here, here, here, & here).
Given all Semenya has endured, I can’t say I wa...[Read on] |
Sotomayor is not meaner, just femaler
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Serious props to NPR's Nina Totenberg today. Rather than simply reporting about "concerns over Sotomayor's temperament" or allegations that she's a "bully," Totenberg actually compared audio clips of questions asked by Sotomayor and those asked by her mal...[Read on] |
Sexism & Horse Racing: The Preakness
| I’m watching the pre-race coverage of the Preakness horse race right now on NBC. I’ve been following the media coverage of this race all week. Drama and debate rage on “should fillies race with stallions” due to the recent success of filly Rachel...[Read on] |
Gee Whiz, Women Do Write Good Books
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Unlike the Publishers Weekly year end list which included no women, the NY Times has included a bunch of women on its 10 best list of 2009. In fact, 4 of the 5 fiction books are by women.
Here they are. Full list will appear in the December 13 book r...[Read on] |
African National Congress: "Such comments can only serve to portray women as being weak"
| Seldom have I seen a rejoinder as plain-spoken and incisive as the ANC's to accusations that women's 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya is not a woman. I could not find or conjure up a better title for this post.
Caster Semenya earned a gold medal i...[Read on] |
ESPN Bans NY Post for Showing Naked Erin Andrews Photos; Female Sportscaster Finds Allies Everywhere
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As the investigation into who the peeping Tom was violating Andrews’s
privacy, reports and blogs pop up everywhere blasting sexism, voyeurismPost | 07/23/2009 10:30 amThe disgusting ordeal ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has had to face — being the...[Read on] |
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