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The GOP obsession with my private parts is getting out of hand. I’m just gonna post this without additional comments because I have NO WORDS! These…
TRIGGER WARNING: descriptions of violence against women
No bother at all, anon!
- Woody Allen was accused by Mia Farrow, whom he’d been married to, of sexually abusing/molesting their 7-year-old daughter back in 1992.
- I wasn’t able to find anything…
The stats:
Out of Total Film’s list of the 100 Greatest Female Characters in movies…
Only 79 have full names, and only 73 are listed by their full name.
6 are not human women, and 3 are not humanoid.
38 are a character in someone else’s story. 25 of those are primarily a love interest.
Approximately 1/5 do not survive their film.
Almost 1/2 are victimized or imperiled in their films, and 1/3 are victims of rape, sexual assault, family or intimate partner violence.
There are four women of color. Two of these women (the only adult women of color and the only black characters) are portrayed by the same actor, Pam Grier.
There are three characters identifiable as bisexual and one character identifiable as a lesbian.
More than half the characters are approximately 20–35 years of age.
22 appear in films at least co-written by women. Only 5 appear in films directed by women.
How many times have you heard “I can’t get a job because of Affirmative Action” or some variation of this line?
There is an ongoing rhetoric about how white men are the new minority. This idea that they, themselves feel the need to perpetuate. For the rest of the day, I…
Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (via cultureofresistance)
Seems rather appropriate that this came across my dash tonight.
(via feministhistorian)
