#Sexism
Guest Post: The Appearing Female Magician – Desperate Acts of Magic
When I was seven, my parents took me to a magic shop at Pier 39 in San Francisco. I bought my first magic trick, the Imp Bottle. I loved playing with it. Not long after that, my parents bought me a...
Watch This: Ron Charles “Explains” Women’s Fiction
Watch The Washington Post’s book critic, Ron Charles hilariously satirize the idea of “women’s fiction.” He brings light to the sexism embedded within criticism and the truly...
Cartoon: The New Hollywood
This came from Donnelly’s piece on the latest episode of Mad Men in her ForbesWomen.com column. _________________________________________________ Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist...
CinemaCon Holds Panel on Women and the Box Office
Last week at CinemaCon, they held a panel about women and the box office. Moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Editorial Director, Janice Min, the panel touched upon the depressing statistics...
Oscars Rehire Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron
While we here at Women and Hollywood had many problems with the Oscars executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the Academy is very pleased that the show was able to bring in that coveted...
Junie Hoang Loses Age Lawsuit Against IMDB
Actress Junie Hoang lost her lawsuit against IMDB for revealing her actual age online. Hoang first sued IMDB (and parent company Amazon) in October 2011 for $1 million for putting her actual age of...
Guerrilla Girls Call for Girlcott of The Alley Theatre
Houston’s Alley Theatre announced its 2013-14 season with 9 plays that examine the “American character.” Not one of the plays is written by a female playwright. All 9 plays are...
Helen Mirren Stands Up For a Future Full of Women Directors
On Sunday evening, Helen Mirren who has always been wonderfully outspoken in calling out sexism in Hollywood, used the occasion of being awarded the Legend award from Empire magazine to...
More Lynne Ramsay News
As expected, the initial reports of the Lynne Ramsay departure from Jane Got a Gun were very sketchy. More details are coming out, among them the important detail that Ramsay did not just NOT...
Cross Post: “Oz the Great and Powerful” Rekindles the Notion That Women Are Wicked
Dorothy Gale–the girl who went to Oz–has been called the first true feminist hero in American children’s literature. Indeed, she was condemned by many readers, including...
So That’s The Problem – We Just All Missed the Joke
Oscar producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan just keep on sticking their feet in their mouth. As they collected an award for Smash at the GLAAD awards on Saturday night in NYC, they spoke out in...
VIDA, Women in Literary Arts Releases 2012 VIDA Count
This morning VIDA released their 2012 count of the treatment of women in literature over the last year and the results vary widly. Amy King, on behalf of VIDA was curious to see if the numbers...
One Week Out- A Last Look at the 2013 Oscars
I left town the morning after the Oscars on a much needed vacation. While I wasn’t writing last week (and a big thanks goes out to Women and Hollywood writer Kerensa Cadenas for taking...
Oscar Commentary Round Up
With everything surrounding this year’s Oscars there has been a wealth of really great commentary out there. Martha Lauzen for The Wrap gets it spot on in her article: What did the latest...
Jessica Chastain Shoots Down Fabricated Feud with Jennifer Lawrence
Unsurprisingly, media outlets have created a “feud” between Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence. The Oscar-nominated actresses were apparently fighting because of Jennifer...
Hollywood Sexist of the Day: Rex Reed
Rex Reed’s review of Identity Thief in The New York Observer is a scathing takedown of the film, which is fine. He's entitled to his opinion. He's a critic. What’s not...
A Sisterhood With a Glass Ceiling
The NY Times devoted the top story in the Arts and Leisure section this past weekend to an exciting thing happening off-Broadway, the fact that women are being regularly hired to direct shows. The...
Surprise! Go Daddy’s Sexist Super Bowl Ad is the Worst Ever
While the Super Bowl is bringing us Beyonce at halftime, another thing it annually brings are the worst of the worst in terms of sexist ads. And GoDaddy.com without fail brings the cream of the crop...
Cross Post: Uppity Women: How Maya and Kathryn Bigelow Continue to Threaten the Status Quo
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt If you want to win an Oscar for Best Picture now, make an...
Cross Post: Reel Girl’s Gallery of Girls Gone Missing From Children’s Movies in 2013
In 2012, I waited until the last possible minute. It wasn’t until December that I posted Reel Girl’s Gallery of Girls Gone Missing from Children’s Movies in 2012. Even though in the...
Michael Moore: Zero Dark Thirty is a Movie About ‘How We Don’t Listen to Women.’
Always controversial and rarely quiet political filmmaker and author, Michael Moore, has spoken out in defense of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. Moore took to Facebook (and Time.com),...
Sexist Movie Poster of the Day: Movie 43
Another day, another objectification of women's bodies, this time in the form of Movie 43's poster, showing a barely clad woman for some ridiculous reason. Marketing? It's a pretty...
Critics and Film Lovers Respond to Kathryn Bigelow Snub
After Kathryn Bigelow’s name wasn’t announced for Best Director during yesterday’s Oscar nominations, film and entertainment critics as well as movie lovers were outraged causing a...
Sexism Pushes Its Way Into the Oscar Campaign
In the last week the screws have really been tightening in this bizarre world of Oscar campaigning, and Kathryn Bigelow and her film Zero Dark Thirty are the recipients of what is referred to a...
If Women Ran Hollywood…
If women ran Hollywood is a question worth pondering and one we often do here at Women and Hollywood. Apparently it’s been a question on the minds of those over at The Hollywood Reporter, so...
Cross Post: Okay, Jen. Here Goes: “Stop Being Mean To Women On The Internet”
My fellow comedian Jen Kirkman is boycotting Twitter until men stop using it as a medium to be awful to her because she’s a woman yet still has the audacity to express her views on occasion. Or...
Sexist Quote of the Day by Bret Easton Ellis
In a ploy to make himself relevant again after being turned down to write the screeplay for 50 Shades of Grey, Bret Easton Ellis took to twitter and slammed director Kathryn Bigelow. Here's the...
Sight & Sound’s Best of 2012 Includes No Women Directed Films
Sight & Sound released their Best of 2012 list over the weekend. In similar fashion to the summer rage over the update of their top 50 list and then the expansion of that to 250 films,...
The Hollywood Reporter’s Director Roundtable Omits Women
Yesterday was a good day with the Sundance numbers news. But we were reminded not to get overexcited about those numbers since women directors only made up 17% of the worldwide competition and...
The Hollywood Reporter 2012 Actress Roundtable: Addressing Sexism, the Fight for Parts and Creating Media
Last week, The Hollywood Reporter released their annual Actress Roundtable issue. This year the list was all white and included Sally Field, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Watts, Marion Cotillard, Helen Hunt,...
Guest Post: 2012’s Best Actress Race: A History of Inequality
Capote. Ray. Malcolm X. Nixon. Milk. Ali. Chaplin. Do these ring a bell? They are the names of famous politicians, filmmakers, activists, authors and athletes who inspired biopics that were...
Watch This: See Jane Trailer from Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Geena Davis's commitment to gender in the media is truly inspiring. See Jane, an affiliated program with her Institute on Gender in the Media, focuses specifically on making sure that...
Sexism Watch: The Hollywood Reporter Writer’s Roundtable 2012
I’m a scriptwriter who writes scripts that tell stories about women. Scriptwriting’s a solitary activity most of the time and it’s arduous, but the voices of other scriptwriters...
Guest Post: Wanted: Female Astronauts: Geena Davis Celebrates “Add Female Characters” Month at Third Symposium on Gender in the Media
Did you know that November is Add Female Characters Month? It is according to Geena Davis, who took over the back page of Variety to declare it such. The ad ran on Tuesday, November 13, the...
Sexism Watch: Popular Media is Dominated By Men
As consumers of media we know that things are biased. That's why it is so important that we have data to backup what we are seeing and feeling. And it's great that we have people...