Right, so 3,500 women DGA members pay their union dues just for the hell of it! Believe us--we ARE interested!
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Cross Post - 13 Myths Hollywood Uses to Hide Discrimination Against Women Directors
Right, so 3,500 women DGA members pay their union dues just for the hell of it! Believe us--we ARE interested!
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These articles always make me want to flee the country. The United States is supposed to be this great country of opportunity and freedom, yet its women are treated worse than women across Europe and other parts of the world. What's taking so long? Why are women so unaccepted in the film and entertainment industry? Talent has nothing to do with it, and neither does experience. Everyone must start somewhere, and there are plenty of bright, vivacious women vying for jobs. But it is so rare to be welcomed as a man would be for the same position, and often women are turned away based on the sole fact that their sex is female instead of male. It is entirely illegal and taboo to make such exclusions based on skin color, so why base these decisions on anything besides talent and drive? Men who can't work with women are hardly worth calling men, and it is long past time for women to be breaking into this industry.
Well. I didn't realize just how harshly the statistics about women directors point to the idea that men still rule the directing scene in Hollywood. I think that in today's society, most of the time we feel there is little discrimination left in the world and that we are a lll about on an equal playing field, but that in not true. In Foundations of Drama we were just reminded that the law stating that women should be paid as much as men was never passed, and now thinking about, it seems shocking. So I guess we can't really be surprised by the fact that there aren't many women getting the same benefits as male directors when we can't even give them equal pay.
I have to wonder how people have said some of these things in defense of the status quo without realizing that they're using phrases like "a man's job" which explain the reason behind the exact thing which they are denying. I am also confused by the statement that men have more experience, because if you actually stop and think about that at all, it makes absolutely no sense regardless about whether you think there is a problem.
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