Where Are the Women? Welcome to Me
Allows the particular problems of one woman to be metaphorically representative of the problems of humanity at large. A woman’s story as universal? Radical. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? Manglehorn
Women! Why can’t they be happy simply keeping a man happy? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Maggie
When bad things happen to women, men’s feelings about this are more important than anything else, including how the women feel. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Lazarus Effect
All the female characters here could have been played by men without impacting the story at all. There aren’t many movies we can say that about. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Entourage
Who are the women in Hollywood? If they’re not nagging wives or saintly mothers-to-be, they are sex toys for men. What else is there? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Dawn Patrol
A proudly sexist movie in which slut-shaming and policing a woman’s sexual agency is inherent to the plot, and not in a way that condemns those attitudes. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? London Road
In a portrait of a community impacted by a terrible crime, girls and women have as much of a presence as they do in reality. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Jurassic World
The female coprotagonist is a Jurassic World administrator of some sort and ostensibly an authority figure, but she is constantly undermined by men. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Madame Bovary
Women are not automatically fulfilled by marriage? A movie set almost 200 years ago should not be more progressive in this respect than most set today. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Insidious: Chapter 3
With not one female protagonist but two, this is a fine example of how stories about women appeal to wide mainstream audiences. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
