Where Are the Women? Containment (aka Infected)
This is how you do it: You don’t relegate women to mere sidekicks to men, and you give the women things to do that actually drive the plot. Easy peasy.
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Where Are the Women? Listening
Woman: she can be a wife and mother, or she can be a sexy genius scientist who enjoys strutting about the lab showing a lot of skin.
Where Are the Women? How to Change the World
Only three women appear in this movie… and two of them are the wife and daughter of the male founder of Greenpeace, and mostly speak about him.
Where Are the Women? Everest
The women in this story spend their time worrying and picking up the pieces while men are off discovering themselves and getting into trouble along the way.
Where Are the Women? Legend
Tired tropes take on extra unpleasant dimensions here with the only significant female character viewing emotional and physical abuse through a dreamy lens.
Where Are the Women? Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
This is the sort of movie in which, when someone yells, “They’re going after the girl!” they refers only to boys and there’s no question who “the girl” is.
Where Are the Women? The Visit
The two adult women here are defined solely as mothers, but at least there is a teenaged female coprotagonist who is not defined by her gender.
Where Are the Women? Ricki and the Flash
The female protagonist is a mother, a girlfriend, and an ex-wife, but her life is not defined by her relationships to men and children.
Where Are the Women? Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Women here are mothers, “hot” girls, or are dying of a cancer that isn’t even her own story: it serves only as a life lesson for the male protagonist.
Where Are the Women? American Ultra
An unambitious slacker stoner dude who gets unquestioning support to a saintly degree from a perfect girlfriend? Check. *yawn*
