I am so tired of having to look away from the screen so often when watching a "good" show, and having to rely on D to tell me when it's safe to look again. This article really hit the nail on the head for me and put together some really telling (and damning) statistics.
Even as a snapshot of the industry, however, the numbers tell a clear story about who gets the keys to the fanciest car, culturally speaking. At the outlets responsible for many top programs, women and people of color are enormously under-represented as creators. If one focuses only on the last dozen years at AMC, FX, Showtime, Netflix and HBO, around 12 percent of the creators and narrative architects in the dramatic realm were women
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In which I get long-windedblythechildJuly 4 2014, 15:37:33 UTC
I get tired of watching rape/sexual-domination-of-women trotted out as viable entertainment. My current fandom is a U.S. crime procedural show, and the level of graphic female victimization that happens in it on a WEEKLY basis makes me Hulk out a lot. I get that women are proportionally much more likely to be a crime victim, regardless of the nature of that crime, but this sort of camera-in-her-mascara-marred-face-while-she-begs-for-her-life obsession is... pornographic and disturbing. How is a 5 minute scene about her suffering adding to the 42 minute crime plot? How is this justifiably passed by the broadcast standards censors but you can't say 'fuck' during primetime? Why is sexual torture and violence displayed as a fate to which death would be preferable, and yet each week it gets highlighted and underscored as an enticement to watch or detailed in such a way as to be a primer for those turned on by female victimization
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I do. Every day. For me, after becoming a parent, I cannot watch doomsday movies or shows, or apocalyptic stories. Forget the news about child rape and pedophilia, and let's not even get into our growing issue of mass shootings. Coupled with shows like what you've watched, I've become far too much of an empath to watch much of anything that isn't humor or just plain silly. So, I watch Sesame Street and other kid stuff because apparently I just cannot deal.
Hi! xo You are terrific, have I told you lately? :)
It's hard to "deal." I feel like I deal too much, but I live in a city and am surrounded by people who talk about what's going on. Whereas growing up, the news was for adults and only at certain times of day, and GOD FORBID anyone talk about women's rights ("the Bible says..."). It's sort of like you can't win.
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Even as a snapshot of the industry, however, the numbers tell a clear story about who gets the keys to the fanciest car, culturally speaking. At the outlets responsible for many top programs, women and people of color are enormously under-represented as creators. If one focuses only on the last dozen years at AMC, FX, Showtime, Netflix and HBO, around 12 percent of the creators and narrative architects in the dramatic realm were women ( ... )
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Also, hi. xo
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Hi! xo You are terrific, have I told you lately? :)
It's hard to "deal." I feel like I deal too much, but I live in a city and am surrounded by people who talk about what's going on. Whereas growing up, the news was for adults and only at certain times of day, and GOD FORBID anyone talk about women's rights ("the Bible says..."). It's sort of like you can't win.
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I think it's great that feminism is having a resurgence recently, though. There's hope.
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Yes, I think there is hope, even though sometimes I feel hopeless.. I just KNOW that makes sense.
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