In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’
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Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)
Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.
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snakegrin:
If I were a reporter, I would say Benedict Cumberbatch’s name wrong on a regular basis and wait for his fanbase to explode and for people to try and correct me. Then I’d sit back and explain to them how this is the same way the media treated Quvenzhane Wallis and none of these people had complaints when it happened to her.
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“We’ll get coffee and do lines.” Means one thing to your scene partner, means something very different to that lady getting off the elevator.
Remember that PSA tv spot from like fifteen years ago with the house hippo? About not believing everything you see on tv? Can someone make that for the internet? Because jesus christ people believe anything that appears on a fucking infographic.
Lying on the ground, friends sitting around the fire.
The tops of some vintage novelty condom molds.
