{"id":12745,"date":"2018-10-09T15:23:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T09:12:16","slug":"womens-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/09\/womens-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"women’s perspectives are criminally underrepresented"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(2025mar8: I wonder if I still feel this way? The climate feels different than in 2017, but I think fundamentally… I’m not sure, I gotta think about it and talk to people about it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(aug2017) As I get older<\/a> and hear more about women’s experiences, it gets clearer and clearer to me that movies and TV are dominated by male POV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect this is why so many men have weird expectations of women \u2013 our ideas of women are informed predominantly by men, not women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(how insidious it must be for girls and young women, to grow up watching representations of women as manifestations of male fantasy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not talking particularly about sex and sexy things, by the way, though that’s significant. I’m talking about much more subtle things<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watched a couple of movies tonight (Minority Report, and Off Course \u2013 a spanish film). Both obviously written+directed by men. Why obvious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s obvious but also subtle. Like video game lag. The female characters have this simplistic pliancy about them, trusting the protagonist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Terminal \u2013 what did Catherine Zeta-Jones see in Tom Hanks? It was “plot romance” \u2013 would never happen IRL. Male fantasy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a good way to contrast it. Take Prison Break + Orange Is The New Black. Two shows about prisons, written by men and women respectively. Pay careful attention to the male\/female relationships between characters in both shows. OITNB more thoroughly fleshes out all of the nuance, negotiation, back-and-forth, the sussing out and feeling. (Mean Girls does this really well, too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t mean to say that male stories, takes, POVs, etc are bad. I mean, they’re literally like, 95% of what we talk about. Hero’s Journey. So like\u2026 I want to see more women-driven media. We’re missing out on half of the human experience. And it’s the more interesting half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was watching Get Out a few days ago. It’s a movie that makes you feel worried for a black character. Watch it, it’s really good + refreshing. I remember thinking \u2013 apart from maybe OINTB, Glow, Gilmore Girls… there are still few popular shows that make you worry about women \/ see things their way<\/p>\n\n\n\n

____<\/p>\n\n\n\n

keeping an eye out for women’s art<\/a> is the quickest way to expand your mind. these are so great<\/p>\n\n\n\n

one of the tragic ways that women’s art, perspectives, essays, etc are framed as “we must do this for gender equality purposes”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that’s completely back-asswards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we must do this because women’s POVs, having been so underrepresented, contain some of the freshest, best insights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(2025mar8: I wonder if I still feel this way? The climate feels different than in 2017, but I think fundamentally… I’m not sure, I gotta think about it and talk to people about it.) (aug2017) As I get older and hear more about women’s experiences, it gets clearer and clearer… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[581,601,586,577,602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-culture","category-searching-for-truth","category-perception","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3jz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14667,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions\/14667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}