Where Are the Women? X+Y (aka A Brilliant Young Mind)
Boy genius is confused, upset. Mom and girlfriend will guide him on the path to manhood. Because of course they will. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? Cinderella
Subsume your individuality and your desires in the hopes that other people will like you? How come we never tell stories about men that sound like this? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
male protagonist bingo
This was created (not by me) as a commentary on videogames, but almost without any alteration, it also applies to movies. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Suite Française
A wonderful example of the fact that war is not the exclusive domain of men (as it often seems to be in fiction) and that women have war stories, too. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Run All Night
Women do not figure into this testosterone fest, except as the object of sexual jokes or as familial property that can be threatened to motivate a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Grand Budapest Hotel
If the work of any filmmaker would seem a natural fit for women in nontraditional roles, it’s Wes Anderson’s, so the lack here is extra disappointing. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Chappie
Sigourney Weaver’s weapons-contractor CEO doesn’t have anywhere near the screen time of the scantily dressed mommy to a newborn AI. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Unfinished Business
Almost everything that is wrong about how women are depicted by Hollywood, collected in one ugly movie. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Inherent Vice
Women? If they’re not hookers or heartbreakers, they’re just standing around being decorative. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Focus
Par for the Hollywood course: a woman plays second fiddle to a man… until he decides that he is ready to claim her as his prize. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
