Oh hey, if you have not zipped over and read the whole article on the New York Times, you should. The attitudes expressed and the hurdles women face are replicated in almost every occupation and fascinatingly enough the dudes in charge seem pretty “OK” with the situation.
“There had long been a strange sort of omertà on talking about the gender disparity. Even though women watched things getting worse, said Helen Hunt, the actress and director, it was hard to speak up: ‘‘Women who say it’s not O.K. are wet blankets or sore losers.’’ When I began reporting this article several months ago and asked some male moguls in the entertainment industry for their perspectives, they shrugged the issue off as ‘‘bogus’’ or ‘‘a tempest in a teapot.’’
‘‘Not that many women have succeeded in the movie business,’’ one top entertainment boss told me, while insisting on anonymity. ‘‘A lot of ’em haven’t tried hard enough. We’re tough about it. It’s a hundred-year-old business, founded by a bunch of old Jewish European men who did not hire anybody of color, no women agents or executives. We’re still slow at anything but white guys.’’
When I phoned another powerful Hollywood player to ask about the issue, he said dismissively, ‘‘Call some chicks.’’
Yep. Go call some chicks… Indeed.
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2 comments
December 10, 2015 at 8:10 am
tildeb
One might be tempted to think that anytime a justification requires a double standard, we actually see this as the Big Red Flag it is, that we might even clue into the fact that we then know bias and discrimination is hard at work. When we encounter a double standard, we can then better understand that the real problem lies with the thinking by those who require it and not the people (or their actions or character or morals or ethics or what have you) upon whom we impose the imported double standard.
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December 10, 2015 at 8:15 am
The Arbourist
@Tildeb
I’m seeing how long it takes to get a ‘well, if audiences simply wanted more female films the market would demand it’ or, my personal fav, ‘the movie biz is really competitive and hard to get into, after it is a meritocracy, if your work is good, then it will get made…’
Both of the above viewpoints, as your comment rightly suggests, are not seeing the larger social backdrop and conditions that effect the problem at hand.
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