Posts tagged gender
Posts tagged gender
Geena Davis on the Gender in Media issue.
A very interesting talk demonstrating how even in 2011 Hollywood insists on having highly stereotyped or hyper-sexualized female characters in family-friendly movies.
Yes, please have more romantic comedies out there…
Yes, please have more women in media/entertainment/the arts in general…
Yes, please have media companies hire more women…
Yes, I am quite the stereotype she talks about right now. In all seriousness though, how amazing is it that the best way of knowing your market is by looking at what amuses and entertains them? Why have media companies stuck to demographics and their (often wrong) implications for so wrong?
