Moguls in addition to starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism


By The Guardian, Oct. 19, 2017

In the Hollywood dream factory, trauma surfaces equally calorie-free entertainment. In 2013, introducing the listing of best supporting actress nominees at a pre-Oscars event, comedian Seth MacFarlane quipped: “Congratulations, yous 5 ladies no longer direct keep to pretend to survive attracted to Harvey Weinstein.” What was chilling nearly this was non merely that MacFarlane followed it upwards at the Oscars amongst a flow of “edgy” jokes, including the trouble that nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis had “16 years earlier she’s besides sometime for Clooney” too the nauseating We Saw Your Boobs song. What is actually disturbing is that everyone – fifty-fifty people who had no reckon of what has at in i lawsuit emerged nearly Weinstein’s deportment – got the joke. The reckon that woman individual stars too aspiring stars are required to direct keep the attentions, at the rattling least, of older manful individual studio executives too producers, is equally sometime equally the Hollywood hills.

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