Where Are the Women? Fifty Shades of Grey
Woman as a passive sexual object of a man, depicted via a male gaze: it’s everything that is wrong with how Hollywood represents women onscreen. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Year: 2015
Fifty Shades of Grey movie review: neurotica
A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic?
London photo: view from the Air Line
A view from the Emirates Air Line, near the O2 in North Greenwich.
Where Are the Women? Last Days in Vietnam
Apart from one very brief historical news clip of a female member of Congress, no women appear on camera here, which is a huge disappointment. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Last Days in Vietnam documentary review: withdrawal symptoms
Paints a true-life picture of ordinary people with human consciences defying their orders and the law to do the right thing when bureaucracy fails them.
I know you’re all dying to know what I think of 50 Shades of Grey…
But if there was a press screening of the film in London, it was kept a bigger secret than Christian Grey’s Red Room.
Where Are the Women? Old Fashioned
This is a movie about a man who is presented as a romantic hero because of (not in spite of) his medieval ideas about women. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Old Fashioned movie review: how would Jesus date?
Old-fashioned is right. Like how the Taliban is old-fashioned. Behold some pretty despicable passive-aggressive othering of women in the name of “respect.”
London photo: reflections in the raindrops
Waiting to take off on the Emirates Air Line cross-Thames cable car.
Where Are the Women? Two Days, One Night
It’s really not that difficult: Just put a woman at the center of a story and let her live it on her own terms. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
