Posted on 11/21/2015 1:43:18 PM PST by simpson96
New York Times writer Maureen Dowd lambasted Hollywood as a "sick society" that clings to a myth of liberal values while it persists in excluding women from many aspects of the entertainment business.
The New York Times Magazine on Friday published a 7,000-word piece by the famed columnist about the role of women in Hollywood. Dowd interviewed nearly 100 women for the piece, describing their experiences in an industry where women continue to have second-class status. She cited the shocking statistic that in 2013 and 2014 only 1.9 percent of the directors of the 100 top-grossing films were women, a situation that seems to only get worse over time.
Dowd said she found the situation depressing. "The other two things I covered like this were Catholic Church and Saudi Arabia," she said in an interview with TheWrap. "Somewhere along the line I realized - wow, this incredibly liberal town full of men who say they’re feminists has been warped. It’s a sick society - like the Catholic Church and Saudi Arabia. If you exclude the hearts and minds of women, you get warped. That’s what happened to Hollywood."
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I think Maureen is bitter because she isn't aging gracefully.
She isn’t a bad looking lady but now she must realize that her bat-shit crazy thinking is hurting America.
The liberals are taking out their angst against the learning centers.
They make up racism as an excuse for everything.
It will not end well for them. Reality is real.
Perform or get off the stage. You didn’t ask to be here
because you suck ass, your here to understand the World at
your fingertips.
If the top 100 grossing films had different directors, they might not have ended up in the top 100.
Like Michael Moore?, or Stephen Colbert?
That lovely face, CZ-J is so beautiful. Thanks.
I turn 67 tomorrow. Vietnam is more than four decades past. She reminds me of the pretty girls of my misspent youth.
Catherine will age gracefully if she ages at all. Her inner beauty will keep her young. MoDo is not so fortunate.
Wait until she gets a load of Islam...Obie’s change.
All these super-qualified women who “aren’t allowed” to make movies should go out and make some frickin’ movies. All it takes is a iPhone these days, you don’t need a big budget.
Unfair! The studios should give women more of the "highest grossing" films to direct.
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