Where Are the Women? A Royal Night Out
A princess (and future queen) isn’t exactly Everywoman, but even young women of wealth and privilege have stories that deserve to be told. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? Pitch Perfect 2
Most of the female ensemble are crude stereotypes, but a few central characters are robust, with complex goals that have nothing to do with romance. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Mad Max: Fury Road
This is how you make a movie about bad things that men do to women without being exploitive, or becoming another example of bad things that men do to women. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Testament of Youth
Set a century ago during World War I, when suffragette was a dirty word, this film better represents women than many set today. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Girlhood
This isn’t simply a movie about a teenage girl: it’s about what it means to be a teenage girl. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Top Five
When they’re not anonymous strippers or hookers, women here are nothing but thorns in the side of the male protagonist, using and manipulating him. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Spooks: The Greater Good (aka MI-5)
Women hold positions of authority and power and kickassery, and yet they still get reduced to damsels in distress. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Age of Adaline
Has so little interesting happened to the female protagonist over the 80 years she has magically remained young that romance is the highlight? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Two by Two: Ooops… The Ark Has Gone (aka Two by Two: God’s Little Creatures, aka All Creatures Big and Small)
A female coprotagonist who is not defined by her gender and hardly any specifically gendered issues tip this movie slightly into the positive. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Far from the Madding Crowd
A woman in a man’s job and enjoying the luxury of not having to settle romantically is a great role model not only for Victorian England but today too. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
