‘Vanity Fair’ can recognize sexism and unfair treatment of women in Hollywood…

Mon, Feb 08, 2010

…as long as it happened 70 years ago.

Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, posting a little late this weekend. Enjoy.

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RogerBW

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Mon, Feb 08, 2010 5:05am

Re the “dolls”: Grr! Pastels! Roger smash! Or slightly more seriously, use of desaturated colours indicates a level of fear about the sameness and pallor of these people that’s quite worrying, especially as it seems to be justified.

Lisa

Mon, Feb 08, 2010 11:52am

we’re as much to blame – people like looking at beautiful things – look at the cover of most female magazines. Didn’t Vogue or some other magazine do a “black” model issue? That’s just a nod towards tokenism. It’s nice that they do it from time to time but it’s never going to be the norm.