someone else notices that movies are hardly ever about women as people...

Plus: It’s okay if girls make movies, as long as we can talk about their bodies and their clothes when they show up at film festivals.

Yes, it’s the latest installment of my regular column The Week in Women, over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.

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posted by tomservo (Sat Sep 12 09, 3:04PM)

Aren't a lot of women really interested in fashion? I've even heard rumors that some women watch the Oscars just to see what the stars are wearing. Besides, doesn't Miss Cody dress kinda whacky to get noticed? (There's nothing wrong w/ that, by the way.)

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Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Week in Women

· botox, breast implants, and dye jobs...
· even lady action heroes get the blues...
· Hit Girl hysteria...
· it’s our culture of misogyny...
· Jennifer Aniston may not want your help...
· win an Oscar, lose your husband?
· the Liz Lemoning of American pop culture...
· Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win doesn’t *really* count...
· female directors barely exist...
· imagine if men were all but invisible onscreen...

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