[Skooz]

"We're showing kids a world that's very scantly populated with women and female characters," said actress Geena Davis, founder of See Jane, a program of the advocacy group Dads & Daughters that encourages balanced gender representation in entertainment for children.

Or for crying out freaking loud. This is a joke, right? Right?

[massgopguy]

My 14 year old daughter can't stand Hillary Duff.

[mucrospirifer]

I wish it were a joke.

In 1970 or '71, LOOK Magazine published an article about up-and-coming young actresses and the difficulties they faced in finding suitable female roles in Hollywood.

Farrah Fawcett complained that there weren't enough female roles, and that male actors got more opportunities than female actresses.

More than a third of a century later, the same old whine in the same old bottles.