I went ahead and watched all the videos she's done and, few problems aside, I agree with almost everything she says. The obvious question then to ask is how to do you proceed in bringing about some form of change to the way things are? In one of her videos on BitTorrent/Wikipedia she argues that things are the way they are…
I wanted to share this link, it's an amazing Ted Talk [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uDutylDa4"]Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders - YouTube[/ame] the main takeaway why I'm posting it is this experiment she talks about. Someone took a very successfull female investor, duplicated her resume a ton of…
I massive part of the male social construct is the 'big boys don't cry' idea. Essentially you have to be a stoic wall, and if you ever complain or ask for help your not a real man. This concept is massively damaging to men, but unfortunatly its self repeating, how can you complain about the idea that your not aloud to…
Now for a more mature post since I was a bit of a dick.... the problem I have with her views is that not all cliche stories like say the Notebook, Forrest Gump, Chasing Amy are bad. When you add elements to your creation to make it good as an after thought that is when it usually fails. For example, for a space adventure…
Oh the hubris! Just because I may have the capability to make whatever is 'OKAY' by you, why don't I make more of that IN MY SPARE TIME? I could write a book on that mate! I also dont like the slaughter of whales, but you certainly wont catch me strapping myself to the harpoon gun of a whaling boat in protest. Nor will…
Something stands out that I don't understand. It keeps being brought up but I am not getting it : This doesn't make sense to me. I don't think there is any law (at least in western societies) preventing Sofia Coppola to make great movies, or any woman to enter a film school or an advertising firm. Now of course one can…
I don't have a dog in this fight. I understand a couple of Anita's points, but I in general do not think that her analysis is particularly strong. I can understand why women would not want to be in this industry, considering all of the potty humor and the number of dicks I've been seeing here lately. Not that this stuff…
Okay sure, I think we can agree then that a lot of it is perspective and subjective. I'm glad we can agree on that. But I think a lot of comes down to the fact that you wanted a deep, like-able, independent, self respecting, smart character that was female. Which has made you kind of miss the point that everybody around…
Ya know i think there is one massive point being ignored here. Everything that is being taken issue to is mass market, and complete products. It is super rare to see sexist backlash against portfolio pieces because they don't have an affect on the larger world. Its all about context ya see, nobody takes issue with…
I don't know how reasonable it is to ask men to write true female characters. When they try, it's not an uncommon complaint that they fail at it and just don't grasp the female psyche. Rather, isn't the problem that so few women are creating our media? Also, a problem that I have with these gendrist takes on media is that…