Where Are the Women? Last Days in Vietnam
Apart from one very brief historical news clip of a female member of Congress, no women appear on camera here, which is a huge disappointment. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? Old Fashioned
This is a movie about a man who is presented as a romantic hero because of (not in spite of) his medieval ideas about women. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Two Days, One Night
It’s really not that difficult: Just put a woman at the center of a story and let her live it on her own terms. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? How to Train Your Dragon 2
This is how you portray women in a film with a male protagonist: as existing as people in their own right not defined solely by their relationship to him. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Guardians of the Galaxy
Kudos to the film for including more than one token women in its mix. Too bad the (male) CGI cyber-raccoon is more fully realized than any of them are. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
this is why Where Are the Women? is so necessary
Yet more solid proof of a major problem with how women are represented onscreen. Not that we needed it… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Jupiter Ascending
This is how you squander a female protagonist: Don’t let her make any decisions about her own life and make sure she is in constant need of rescue by a man. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Lego Movie
The only woman is shuffled aside as hero in favor of a doofus guy… and then she’s reduced to a joke about how badly she’s being treated. Har har? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Peter Jackson would have been better off, if he was worried about how women are represented on film, just leaving his Hobbit female-free. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? X-Men: Days of Future Past
Jennifer Lawrence’s complex antagonist and lots of female mutants make for a respectable showing, particularly for the genre. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
