Where Are the Women? The Theory of Everything
Man does science-ing, discovers secrets of the universe. Woman does selfless wife-ing. As usual. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
A story about a girl with a playful appreciation of life who resists the constraints her culture places on her, this is a true girl’s own tale. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Into the Woods
With a female villain and multiple women who go on personal journeys, even in traditional roles as wives and mothers, they are fully human. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are The Women? Timbuktu
Even in the worst circumstances for women, rebellion exists. Alas that this movie has rebellious women only on its periphery. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Song of the Sea
Adventure is for boys. What do even powerful and magical girls get to do? Merely inspire a boy on his adventure with their goodness or their badness. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Captain America: The Winter Soldier
With multiple women who are competent professionals defined by their work first, this is a great example of good female representation in a man’s story. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Maleficent
Not the reimagining of a traditional story it purports to be: it perpetuates retrograde notions about the abuse of women as a good way to punish a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Wedding Ringer
Women? Easily manipulated dupes. Men can tell the most outrageous lies, and women will buy it if you distract them with fairy-tale wedding fantasies. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Blackhat
More than one smart, capable, competent woman helps drive the action… and none is defined solely (or at all!) as a mother or a lover. Hooray. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Foxcatcher
One wife and one mother appear only very briefly… and then only to represent a generic idea of the influence women have on men. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
