#this is why we need feminism
They’re doing a new Julia Child biopic & it’s weird as hell that the first Julia Child biopic was half about her & half about a random blogger who cooked all her recipes, a blogger Julia Child personally disliked. What an incredible case of latching yourself onto someone else, just imagine having a biopic made about your life & having to share it with some random lady who copied you and got called out by you personally.
The oddest thing in that genre of media since learning that Coyote Ugly & Eat, Pray, Love are about the same person
(apparently the Julie & Julia woman went on to write a book about how she was having affairs that whole time. Just incredible)
I think what this speaks to is just how uninterested Hollywood is in telling the stories of women, even when those women are objectively important and interesting. I mean, the reaction to Julie & Julia was almost universal. Everyone loved the Julia bits and couldn’t stand the ones about Julie. And it wasn’t just because Julie was annoying, but because Julia Child’s life was genuinely fascinating, and in a culture that has become increasingly interested in food and cooking, telling her story had a built-in audience. And yet it still took a now-forgotten blog to get studios thinking that that audience might exist, and another decade-plus (and the massive proliferation of streaming networks) for Child to get her own biopic.
There are tons of other examples. Lucille Ball only got a biopic last year, and it was more interested in her husband (and forgot to make her funny). The first fictional depictions I’ve seen of feminist trailblazers like Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, and Gloria Steinem were as supporting characters in a show about Phyllis Schlafly. Until Sally Wainwright did it, no one seems to have looked at the life of Anne Lister and gone “wow, this woman’s life should be a movie!”
Meanwhile, at least three different actors have played Apollo program flight director Gene Kranz, and in the space of less than a decade there have been two different shows about the same group of 18th century Caribbean pirates. There’s a bias that determines whose stories get told, and it is incapable of grasping women’s lives as interesting, even when they clearly are.
So this is terrifying
https://www.facebook.com/groups/880314262870525/permalink/1039093886992561/?app=fbl
These people are unhinged.
to my fellow usamericans….in light of the supreme court overturning roe v wade, well known organizations like planned parenthood dont need your money right now - they have plenty - if you’re going to donate, donate to your local or state abortion funds
thenational network of abortion funds allows you to split your donation between 91 abortion funds in the united states - it lists every fund your donation goes to and allows you to customize the amount you give to each fund
i encourage you not to focus on donating to local funds if you live in states where access is relatively secure. there will absolutely still be individuals in those places who need assistance and donating to them great but like there are states whose residents will be much more affected by the overturning of roe and much in more in need of help than others
