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Gender of speaking roles in top movies

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Brutal Hollywood math

Of the top 250 films of 2017, 88 percent had no female directors, 83 percent had no female writers, and 96 percent had no female cinematographers. Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/the-brutal-math-of-gender-inequality-in-hollywood/550232/

Kathryn Hahn sings about Frozen (2013)

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WATCH 4mins Frozen is not feministy, and problems don't get solved with a hug or a kiss.

Shadowban

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Shadowbanned ~ Where They ban you for a day and don't let you know with a message, They let you go on oblivious to the fact that only if a person specifically searches for your handle can they then see what you said. Shadowbanning is locking you out of everyones' Feed. Also, if you Feed from competition sites that haven't made a deal with your social media site, They also shadowban that stuff.  Put up your hand if you see this post, I'm sure They don't want us mutually educating about shadowbanning either.  Welcome to the the land of #NetNeutrality trash. Shadowbanning can break the back of the power of the hashtag. These are the tweets that posted to my Facebook that got me banned:   Like   View Tweet activity Tanya Pretorius ‏   @fetsiboomsticks   17 Dec 2017 More #MenAreTrash have not intervened if a #MenAreTrash was denigrating a woman, beating a woman, raping a woman. 0 replies 0 retweets 0 lik...

Condoms, what to tell girls

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If you talk about condoms, talk about stealthing - where men surreptitiously allow the condom to slip off (wear one that's too big) or remove it with their hands. Women must look at the packaging, help put it on, and slip their hands down there regularly to check if it is still on. Source of picture Sergey Markov

Homeland (Series 2011-)

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I've had enough of Homeland. The lead woman is portrayed as a madwoman in the attic, a sadwoman on the heath, a badwoman on the bed. And the men all around are calm and focused and collected. Her behaviour would never be tolerated in real life. Never. She would be relegated to some desk job. She's a loose cannon who can't follow orders, popping Lithium. At least John McClane and Dirty Harry weren't popping Lithium.  I wonder what Hollywood could be wanting to imply about the emotionality of women in the workplace? Does anyone want to give me insight into what happened with her pregnancy - did they let her have the baby or did she dutifully abort it, or it self-aborted, or she carried it to term and became a housewife in the woods?

#MenAreTrash

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After the #NotAllMen have finished sulking, do they ever focus on the men who are trash? No. #NotAllMen is a diversionary tactic and irrelevant. EXAMPLE Women are paid 70c on the dollar across the whole world and in some countries even less. #NotAllWomen said the CEO of Facebook. Did anything about the first statement change? I think men think that the hashtag should be - #AFewMenAreTrash. Snort #AFewMenArentTrash. And that would SIMPLY BE WRONG. You aren't women so you don't know. You have a completely different experience of men. My father has NO COOKING CLUE that my uncles and his friends have been up to stuff. Not to mention men he's known tangentially. Not to mention all the men not associated with my father. So my father thinks men are fine. Until women can come forward and BE BELIEVED men will think they know. They don't know. I told my father the other day that I was raped. He was shocked. I am fifty. I am articulate, my uncles are dead. ...

Google "Lolita", I dare you

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And you will see an obsession with justifying the sexualization of children. Pedophiles fight for the law to change so that they can fuck children because they believe that young girls intentionally seduce them. Teach your girls well how to NOT give them that impression.  Mommy taught me all the swear words, and she let me scream at men like a banshee, throw a tantrum. She (sort-of) let me wear clothes with holes in and jeans with grotesque tallies and t-shirts. That's how I responded to the barrage of men trying to fuck me. I cry for children who are encouraged to "be nice". Pedophiles think that "be nice" = "seduced". Were you harassed by pedophiles, Barbara? How did you respond?

#WomanPhillic media

#WomanPhillic movies would have the woman coming home late and the man waiting asleep in their bed.

20th Century Women (2016)

#DanSays ~ If a man needs a kayak and a burlap sack to get off it would be in the room from the first time you have sex. Women never ask for what they want or bring what they want. Greta Gerwig just asked Billy Crudup for fantasy role play. He asked if he could rather just be himself. (Thankfully Gerwig said No). That was one hell of an important moment in film right there.  Owning your sexuality, being naughty, "I figured out how to be looked at by men, how to make men feel excited and uncomfortable." #ParaphrasingGenius Greta Gerwig

#WomenDoingTheWhineyVoice

#WomenDoingTheWhineyVoice on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027574004 Please add your contributions in the comments below.

Louis CK's apology

If we keep punishing the sexual assaulters - now not for their power-mongering pussy-grabbing dick-exhibiting rape-adjacent behaviour --- but for their apologies --- (and yes, apologies are not hollow if they are backed by a change of behaviour, a true understanding, a demonstration of amends) - then I think that's problematic. I was raised to unconditionally accept a concrete apology. That it's ungracious to not accept an apology. And as a feminist I think it is strategically problematic to keep beating a person with their hands up. I would feel like the cops leaning over Rodney King. Of course, the minute Louis CK whips his dick out again, he's dead to me. I am not the girl to hang around for the second apology. Not #MeToo

Old movies, why people don't like them

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Night Must Fall (1964) Because clones, drones, and automobiles are missing. Everyone I know refuses to watch movies made before 2000. I've collected movies way back to the 40s. And I love them. You definitely can't watch them with a cell phone in front of your face. Don't get me wrong, I love new movies too. Many. I'm not too fond of the repetitive scores of many new movies. Do they pay musicians by the note! And the endless fight and chase scenes, they're all the same, just in one movie the guy hits up, in another movie he hits down. Snore. I do look down at my cellphone during these sorts of time-wasters. CGI makes up for it. If you look down at your cellphone while watching Albert Finney arrive at the mansion in Night Must Fall (1964) you'll miss the little over-excited jig he does at the gardner and all the increasing tell-tale signs of his intentions. And when would you see a post-2000 film where a young man so ominously wraps an old woman around...

Review: A Perfect Day (2015)

🍒 Extraordinary film about the ordinariness of war. Structured like a disaster movie with no cliffhangers, it undermines your every expectation of when to put your fingers in your ears. Disaster movies also show you a bit of relationship leg here and a bit of relationship leg there, in this case the camaraderie of men servicing a war. A Perfect Day takes you round the side of the horror, round the side of the explosives, round the side of the mass graves. It focuses on 'the other stuff' of war. Geniusly done. And, despite there being two women in the convoy, overnighting in the wilderness, the movie makers couldn't rustle up a scene where two named women talk to each other about something other than a man. Bechdel-fail. IMDB A Perfect Day (2015) Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins Director: Fernando León de Aranoa

Review: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

🍒 Yes, it’s beautiful. Yes, the 3D was done well. Yes, it’s worth seeing, especially for the threesome - I’ve not seen anything like that on film before. But… meh. Story is kinda thin. The meta narratives are emaciated. There are some things to be said about the sexism of the film. Female replicants.  2049 - Joi (home entertainment and cook), Luv (librarian and killing machine). 2019 - Pris (prostitute and gymnast), Zhora (sex performer with animals), Rachael (secretary and mother) Extended death scenes.  The deaths of the female replicants take many many seconds. The hologram, Joi, is erased and spends many seconds crying out for K at the window of his spinner crash site. Luv is drowned at length, almost erotic asphyxiation snuff-like by K in the womb-ish transport vehicle. Pris is shot by Deckard and has an epileptic seizure-like unreal writhing tongue-protruding death. Zhora is shot by Deckard and crashes through several, several many fashion-store windows in her se...

#MenAreTrash as performance

[ Transvestite - Someone who likes to dress up in clothes of the opposite gender. The intention is to 'pass', to remain inconspicuous. Trans  - Someone who has been born into a body that doesn't reflect their inside gender. The intention is to disrupt binary ideas of gender and/or to change to the other gender and 'pass'. Passing is not a bad thing, necessarily. Some people don't want to draw attention to themselves, don't want conflict, don't want to be an activist every day. Drag Queens - Someone who performs the opposite gender. It's fun, it's sassy, it's political, it's ironic, it's challenging. It's a fun way to do politics. Of course, within any of these groups, individuals may vary.] So Drag Queens are a protest-solidarity-defiant-awakening performance of the thing straight men fear the most about homosexuality - a woman that comes onto them who is not even trying to pass, not even trying to conform to the femininity ...

Review: Withnail & I (1987), and Moonstruck (1987)

🍒 Withnail & I (1987), and Moonstruck (1987) are beloved because they instruct me to be in their mood. And their moods are intense.

Review: Big Little Lies (Mini-Series 2017)

🍒 #DumpTrump #Feminism ~ We might have to enslave some of the Americans too. But nah. Not Trump and his supporters. I wouldn't want them even as slaves. Yucky. If IMDB had fractions, it would be a single fraction off. Fantabulous. IMDB Big Little Lies (2017)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920596 Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman Creator: David E. Kelley

Review: And Then There Were None (Mini-Series 2015)

🍒 I vote we enslave the British and make them produce mini-serieses and leave all those other little fiddlies they are busy with. Use a little military intervention to focus their attentions where they are needed. Who's with me! IMDB And Then There Were None (2015)  Director: George Pollock Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton

Review: Gerald’s Game (2017)

I met my match re Violence. I am inured, usually. Stephen King's story of a man stranded on a tiny desert island is one of my favorites, and Misery. But don't weave the two together and make the woman the story's focus through no fault of her own... yes, King blames her, but he doesn't understand Stockholm Syndrome, The Woman's Version. And I had to watch, to the last moment, such #Truth in relationships on film is compulsive watching. And compulsory for #Feminism. IMDB Gerald's Game (2017)  Actors: Carla Gugino, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan