Saturday, August 2, 2008

Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test | the Hathor Legacy

Two women talking to each other about something other than a man is, I believe, the definition of a chick flick. Maybe I'm wrong about that, especially since chick flicks tend to be about nothing other than men. But here's how bad the whole "women in film"/gender issue gets, from a successful Tinseltown insider who writes:

"I’d just moved from a state that still held Ku Klux Klan rallies only to find an even more insidious form of bigotry in California - running an industry that shaped our entire culture." 

Bigotry. Against women. In Hollywood. I'd be snarky about this if it weren't so damn disheartening.

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