Posted on 09/08/2018 7:22:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Women filmmakers, activists and actors congregated outside the hub of the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday in a series of impassioned speeches on gender inequality in the movie industry and the power of female voices to overcome it.
The “Share Her Journey Rally,” attended by hundreds on a chilly Toronto morning, followed similar events at earlier film festivals. Ahead of the gathering, Cameron Bailey, co-head of the Toronto Film Festival, signed an inclusivity pledge to achieve gender parity in the festival’s executive ranks and on its board of directors by 2020, a pledge that has been signed other festival leaders.
“Given all the problems that we have in our world, all the sectors of society where there’s tremendous gender inequality, the one area that can be fixed overnight is on-screen,” said Geena Davis, founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. “The very next project that someone makes— the next TV show, the next movie — can be gender balanced. It can be fixed absolutely instantly.”
She added: “No more missed opportunities.” …
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Shrieking harpy festival
No. Start or find your own stuff, and then market it to make a profit.
Learn to speak English and you will learn to think in English.
If gender is just a social construct, why should “gender parity” matter?
But doncha know that ALL of Kanaduh’s problems are because of gender inequality? That’s what Prime Minister Groper tells all of us old, Neanderthal white male chauvinists. (Also, that we are racist for not welcoming illegal aliens into Kanaduh with open arms, but it is not just men who are the racists, apparently.)
There will be gender equality when women begin to get prostate exams
Gender is a grammar term. The discussion goes downhill from there.
You are not equal to men. Equal to means the same. You are not the same, so shut up.
Women can rally all they want. Men and women are not equal. Men tend to be taller than women. Men tend to have stronger muscles than women. Men tend to have penises and flat breasts. Women tend to have vaginas and full breasts. Men tend to be builders. Women tend to be nurturers.
Men and women tend to be unequal.
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