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hollywood hates women

a humorous song about how Hollywood hates women

Fri, Feb 28, 2014
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”If you have to have a girl in there / She should be smoking hot / But not affect the plot”…

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evening clickbait: Catching Fire is first film with female lead to top annual box office in 40 years; how to isolate the U.S. culturally and artistically

Sun, Jan 12, 2014
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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evening clickbait: are time travelers on the Net?; the He-man Hollywood woman haters club; the burden of glorious purpose; the Inside Llewyn Davis tweet ad controversy

Mon, Jan 06, 2014
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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a quick primer on how to dehumanize and objectify women in movie marketing

Fri, Dec 20, 2013
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A quick rundown of some of the common ways women can be rendered as less than people…

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evening clickbait: 1981 news report about Internet; modern celebs in classic paintings; how the media failed women in 2013; 60 Minutes fellates the NSA; majority of Web traffic not human; has Anchorman 2 PR been too much?

Mon, Dec 16, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie trailer: even in a time before humans, it’s all about boys

Mon, Dec 09, 2013
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Even in a land before time, a time before humans, even this story is about a boy dinosaur. Who gets to be a hero.

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evening clickbait: “sexy” sore thumbs; little girls get busy engineering

Wed, Nov 20, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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only 18 percent of 2013’s US wide releases are exclusively about girls or women (and 60 percent exclusively about men)

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
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Hint: That’s not enough.

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attention, Hollywood: the wild success of Gravity means audiences have no trouble identifying with a female protagonist

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
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You know how you just avoid making movies with female protagonists because you keep insisting that no one wants to see them? Pfffft!

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“how Sony made sure everyone would see uncanny CGI nudes resembling Ellen Page”

Sat, Oct 26, 2013
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And why it’s difficult to believe that getting these images out onto the Net isn’t precisely what Sony intended…

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