[Obviously written a while ago, and yet … this shit keeps being said.] Toller Cranston, as Janet Lynn takes the ice: “You wouldn’t know by looking at her that she’s a housewife and mother of three.” What? Would he have said of Kurt Browning, “You wouldn’t know by looking at him that he does …
Category: feminism
Aug 15 2017
Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren’t Getting Published Today – McSweeney’s List
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-feminist-manuscripts-arent-getting-published-today
Jul 09 2017
How Being in Public Feels: Men VS Women – GREAT VIDEO!
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/how-being-in-public-feels-men-vs-women/
Jun 25 2017
The Academy Awards – why sex-segregated for acting?
Why is the acting category of the Academy Awards sex-segregated (Best Actor in a Lead/Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading/Supporting Role)? We don’t have separate awards for male and female directors. Or screenwriters, cinematographers, costume designers, film editors, soundtrack composers, or make up persons. Is one’s sex really relevant to one’s acting ability? In …
Jun 18 2017
Women Now Empowered … GREAT ONION PIECE
http://www.theonion.com/article/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does-1398
Jun 06 2017
Things they’ll never tell you about basketball — and sexism
Things they’ll never tell you about basketball – and sexism
May 28 2017
The Hook (Up) – a short script by Peg Tittle
FADE IN: INT. BAR — NIGHT Crowded bar scene. MAN and WOMAN do the standard flirting thing, he buys her a drink, they dance, then exit. Their dialogue isn’t important — the bar’s too loud for us to hear much anyway. But it’s clear that both are willing to engage in the sex that follows. …
May 14 2017
Gender and Sex
Gender and Sex Do you know the difference? Do you understand the consequences of getting them mixed up? Do you understand the consequences of thinking they’re related?
May 14 2017
Size Matters – a short film collage
Size Matters, Peg TIttle What if women were the taller sex? I suggest that this would make a difference in the power relationship between men and women. Ask any short man. This short film is a five‑minute (approximately) collage of scenes from ordinary life. That is, ordinary life reversed ‑ one in which women are …
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