Posted on 07/18/2011 2:28:38 AM PDT by Keltik
Academy Award winning actress Geena Davis joined Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D- WI) on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to introduce a bill that would support efforts to improve the image of girls and women in the media.
“I am proud to join with Sen. Hagan and Rep. Baldwin to promote gender equality and positive portrayals of women and girls in the media,” Davis said in a statement. “What children see affects their attitudes toward male and female roles and impacts the value they place on girls and women in society. The Healthy Media for Youth Act will help ensure we are creating a positive media environment for all our children.”
The legislation would provide grants to encourage and support media literacy programs and youth empowerment groups, facilitate research on how depictions of women and girls in the media affect youth. It also would establish a National Taskforce on Women and Girls in the Media, intended to develop voluntary standards that promote healthy, balanced, and positive images of girls and women in the media.
The bill's introduction coincides with the first meeting of the Healthy MEdia Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls, co-chaired by Davis and former FCC Chairman Deborah Taylor Tate. With representatives from more than 30 media and women's organizations, the commission’s goals include developing best practices for improving the images of women in the film industry.
Davis founded an institute on gender equality in media and has been collecting research on women in film for the past six years. According to its research, negative and stereotypical images of women have persisted Hollywood for decades. “When there is a woman working in as a writer or producer in a film, there is a greater chance that the film will include more positive images of women and girls,” Davis said
Oh, I see THIS going over well...
She can be every bit of the slut she desires to be!
This is satire, right?
Too funny. Hollywood has stables of women willing to act like bimbos for a paycheck. The only 'bill' that is effective on that moonscape is green in color.
....another useless POS comes out of Hollywood
So the idea is to get liberals who control Hollywood and treat women terribly out of power? How will legislation accomplish that. Of course, if we can have people in Hollywood who respect strong women like Palin and Bachmann, it would be nice. But I oppose legislation for this purpose.
Why don’t you start by telling your colleagues in hollywood to stop the idiotic attacks on Sarah Palin and her family, Geena?
You wrote: “....another useless POS comes out of Hollywood.”
Geena Davis is another Northeast Liberal from.... you got it, Masssachusetts.
She is from Wareham, MA about 30 minutes south of Boston.
Go figure!
....speaking from the entertainment sector...
Yeah, that’s it that’s the ticket. There oughta be a law making everyone say what I think they should say in the way I like to hear it. In other words, “shut up”, she explained.
Why should anyone be obliged to take anybody who would get within smelling distance of an idea like this seriously?
...from one of the stars of “Earth Girls are Easy”.
“....speaking from the entertainment sector...”
True.
Her career has faded, she's no longer the glamor girl, she's 55 and way, way over-chubby. This is when these driven women really rev up in liberal causes.
A purported role model to women everywhere due to her causes, Davis has been married four times, the latest husband being an Iranian plastic surgeon.
No doubt she'll be testifying before Congress soon as an "expert" on things like there's not enough girls in sports due to discrimination.
Are we going to relieve the 50's and 60's with this aging leftist? Why don't these Hollyweirdos who think we're all racists and sexists just retire gracefully and stop trying to remake us in their pitiful images.
Susan Sarandon, move over, here comes Geeeeeeeeeeee-na.
Leni
It is no surprise that Kay Hagan is involved...she never saw any spending she didn’t like.
What is a surprise is that these women think they have a problem. There has been constant and unrelenting male bashing and denigration going on. We certainly don’t need more of it. Nor should the taxpayers be a part of it.
I dislike her politics (both of their politics, actually), but I thought Susan Sarandon was better than Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise.
Yes we need to have more shows with women portrayed as far more intelligent with smart ass attitudes towards their apparently “stupid “ husbands. Yep... that will do it.
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