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by 19eightyfour 3337 days ago
Except it's really not. Reality is an equal number of female and male voices.

It's ridiculous movies don't tell women stories, nor show women characters; just "love interest", "plot device", etc. Even in fantasy a female lead is surrounded by a male ensemble or is a proto-male.

Hollywood: we have creative freedom, movies can be whatever we want, and we make them sexist.

IMHO, seeing Hollywood's sexism really ought not to be a too hard a place to start. People resist this. But they can't! Just google "best <genre> movie" and see all those male faces on posters. WTF Hollywood!
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doc_gunthrop 3337 days ago
> It's ridiculous movies don't tell women stories, nor show women characters; just "love interest", "plot device", etc. Even in fantasy a female lead is surrounded by a male ensemble or is a proto-male.

Looking at the Disney films made in the past decade, it appears female protagonist leads are more prevalent (e.g. Moana, Brave, Frozen, Spirited Away, etc.)

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19eightyfour 3337 days ago
Don't quote this

> It's ridiculous movies don't tell women stories, nor show women characters; just "love interest", "plot device", etc

To pretend a handful of Disney animations contradict this and make movies representative. They don't.

It's ridiculous movies are not representative. But they're not.

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danderino 3337 days ago
>Except it's really not. Reality is an equal number of female and male voices.

Not in things you'd make a move around.

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19eightyfour 3336 days ago
No, reality really is

> an equal number of female and male voices.

and I really would tell those stories... If I made movies. Don't pretend it isn't nor I wouldn't. And don't pretend they wouldn't be great movies because they would. They're just not being made and that's sexism plain and simple.

If you let the misrepresentations tell you what the reality is, you'll think there's no such women stories of course. If you open your eyes and heart and feel and think for yourself I know you'll see those stories that Hollywood could be making, but hasn't.

Or maybe you don't want to believe that, nor hear those voices, nor see those stories, nor tell them. I don't know, that's for you to think about it.

But the problem is not that the stories are not there, they really are. Nor that the stories are not great stories, they really are. The problem is that the stories, these stories, these womens stories, are not getting told. That's the problem. And that's sexist.

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