Women and Hollywood: With staggeringly low statistics for women and racial minorities behind and in front of the camera in Hollywood, it's easy to lose hope that the tables will ever turn. Yet there seems to be a change of attitude in the public discourse. An increasing number of stars, like Emma Watson, Salma Hayek, Kristen Stewart and, most recently, Michael Moore, have spoken out about sexism in Hollywood.
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I've had many conversations with friends about how people with privilege, because they don't grapple with injustice in their day-to-day lives, don't give thought to how others are experiencing life and then feel the need to 'mansplain/whitesplain' why an unjust system is like it is. Sometimes it's not to their fault that they do it. Honestly, most of the time I don't blame them, just because they haven't been given the platform to experience sexism or racism or classism like others have. To speak to the article, however, there has been a definite increase in the way people view sexism in Hollywood. Simply the sheer amount of news and papers I've seen about the subject online and on this blog speak to the fact that the public is thinking about women in the entertainment industry. I'm very excited that they said that "TV is the future, especially for women and minorities". A lot more television these days comes from a wider diversified background of artists because it's easier to make lower budget productions with companies that are more open to differing ideas. 'Transparent' and 'Orange is the New Black' are great examples for women and minorities in television, and I hope that I have the opportunity to partake in projects like those.
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