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[CrispyQ]

GEENA DAVIS' TWO EASY STEPS TO MAKE HOLLYWOOD LESS SEXIST

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/geena-davis-two-easy-steps-664573

It wasn't the lack of female lead characters that first struck me about family films. We all know that's been the case for ages, and we love when movies like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen hit it big. It was the dearth of female characters in the worlds of the stories — the fact that the fictitious villages and jungles and kingdoms and interplanetary civilizations were nearly bereft of female population — that hit me over the head. This being the case, we are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space. Couldn't it be that the percentage of women in leadership positions in many areas of society — Congress, law partners, Fortune 500 board members, military officers, tenured professors and many more — stall out at around 17 percent because that's the ratio we've come to see as the norm?

Her ideas are simple but I'll bet would be effective! Short commentary - read it.

I love this woman!

[xulamaude]

1. Geena is a right on woman! nt

[redqueen]

2. I was looking for these statistics earlier this week,

forgot it was Geena I heard it from. Thanks!

[ismnotwasm]

3. That is awesome

An she's an incredible woman

[seabeyond]

4. i rspect this woman so much. i know she periodically makes statements but she is one i could

hear all the time. i would love for her to run for office.