#women in hollywood
Manifestation.
About being typecast as the ‘kick-ass’ girl:
“I was typecast the minute I did a film called, ‘Girlfight’ years ago. You allow yourself to be typecast. If I decided I didn’t want to be typecast tomorrow I’d just go do an indie film where I play some poor girl who goes through some excruciating experience and win myself an award for crying or being raped [breaks into laughter] or playing someone with mental illness.
“But at the end of the day I’m not in it for the acting. If I were in it for the acting then I would be worried about people not giving me the opportunity to express my vast array of emotions on the screen. I could give two shits.
“I only wanna be someone I respect or someone that I consider interesting or fun. I’m here to entertain people and make a statement about female empowerment and strength and that’s what I’ve done for the last 10 years,and people can call it typecast, but I pigeonholed myself and I put myself in that box for saying no to everything else that came on my plate. Saying no to the girlfriend, saying no to the girl that gets captured, no to this, no to that. and eventually I just got left with the strong chick that’s always being killed and there’s nothing wrong with that.”
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emma stone for elle magazine. july 2011
been that bitch, still that bitch, will forever be that bitch
god is a woman
emma looking ready to end someone’s whole career iktr
sweetest girl <3
emma is like a real life margaret keane painting and i think that’s just about the coolest thing ever. seriously though. her eyes are so expressive that i always find myself captivated by them. that expressiveness adds this whole other dimension to the characters she portrays too and it’s so mesmerizing to see an entire mood or thought process of hers by observing the movement and positioning of her eyes. long story short: some people think her eyes are creepy and i think they’re one of her most beautiful features. if you think the former i’m sending cruella off to plot revenge against you goodbye
Queen Ava DuVernay just unveiled ARRAY, a diversity-minded indie distribution company. Bow in the presence of greatness. (And learn more!)
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We’ll be joining Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media’s “Afternoon of Mentoring” event on March 25 in L.A. Get ticks for this great event here: https://seejane.org/events/an-afternoon-of-mentoring
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Youtuber Cold Crash Pictures discusses some very common, and very annoying, portrayals of women in film. Not only are women grossly underrepresented in film, the representations (especially in Hollywood films) are often stereotypical.
5. THE OBVIOUS HOTNESS GAP.
4. THE WOMAN IN JEOPARDY.
3. THE FEMALE BADASS/AUTOMATIC FEMINIST ICON.
2. SUPER-CRASS “FAT-CHICKS”.
1. PUNISHING WOMEN.
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Images of female celebrities without makeup is a popular feature in tabloid newspapers and gossip and fashion magazines. Who looks the best? Who looks the worst?Do you recognise these celebrities without makeup?(Yes, always. It’s not really a challenge.)
So, what’s happening here?
These articles, and many of their readers, are simultaneously shaming these women for wearing makeup and for not wearing makeup. By wearing it, they are deceitful about their true appearance, yet their natural faces are just too “shocking” for them not wear makeup. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Occasionally, someone will try to defend these features. They claim these magazines are just presenting reality as it is and thus crushing beauty ideals.They claim these images are empowering women:
See, if even Beyoncé looks like crap, then you’re okay too! It’s all just makeup and Photoshop! No one is really that beautiful!
But if the headlines call these celebrities “shocking” and"unrecognisable“, are these articles really empowering women? Or are they just telling their female readers (and the concerned celebrities) that maybe they shouldn’t ever leave their house without their makeup on? Aren’t they really saying that the natural look just doesn’t work for anyone? And if the natural look doesn’t even work for Uma Thurman, you can’t possibly be fine just as you are, you regular woman reader you! No, they are not empowering at all, they are just encouraging further girl-on-girl-hate.
If you have to drag down one woman (famous or not) in order to empower another, you’re not really empowering her.
