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where are the women

Where Are the Women? Danny Collins

Mon, Aug 03, 2015
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It’s never too late for a man to earn redemption for his selfish ways… not when he has women to show him the way to humanity.

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Where Are the Women? The Gift

Mon, Aug 03, 2015
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Little more than the standard woman-in-peril thriller, but worse, because it robs the woman of the bit of agency these sorts of movies usually grant her.

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Where Are the Women? Inside Out

Wed, Jul 29, 2015
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That a young girl’s emotions are used to tell a story about universal human experience is something new, a paradigm-smashing win for female representation.

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Where Are the Women? Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Mon, Jul 27, 2015
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The only female character here may be intelligent and capable… but she is often treated as a decorative object in a way that her male colleagues aren’t.

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Where Are the Women? Southpaw

Fri, Jul 24, 2015
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Women suffer, but their pain is not the point of the story, and their pain is nowhere as important as the pain a man suffers as a result of women’s pain.

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Where Are the Women? Best of Enemies

Fri, Jul 24, 2015
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Though the subjects of the film are men in a male-dominated field, the filmmakers include interviews with female authorities to lend us historical context.

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Where Are the Women? Big Significant Things

Thu, Jul 23, 2015
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The most significant female character here is the male protagonist’s girlfriend, who “appears” only as a voice on the phone in a faraway city.

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Where Are the Women? The Gallows

Wed, Jul 22, 2015
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“Jokey” adolescent misogyny and a “she’s just the girlfriend” negatively impact the horror genre’s typically fairly good representation of women.

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Where Are the Women? The Longest Ride

Mon, Jul 20, 2015
5 comments

One complex female character in the ensemble, driven by career ambitions as well as romantic ones, saves the film from scoring more poorly than it does.

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how to proselytize for Where Are the Women? at work

Sun, Jul 19, 2015
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“Visible to everyone who comes to discuss jobs, younger and older…” [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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