Great Moments in Sexism: Who’s your “Baseball Boyfriend?” →
Guess what: women like baseball. They watch a lot of it. They write about it. They are, increasingly, executives in the game. Every fantasy league I’ve ever played in has had women in it, and they invariably beat the crap out of me (not that that’s hard). Are the numbers where we’d like them? No, because ideally everyone on the planet is doing basebally things. But the disparity between male and female fans is not because baseball is too hard for “girls” to understand or two manly for them to enjoy.
I get what they’re trying to do here. They want to expand the number of people who click where they’d like them to click and are trying a unique approach to get there. But there are certainly better ways to do so than by misguidedly attempting to girly-fy fantasy baseball or to dumb it down. Women do not need to be treated like love-struck teenagers to be drawn in.
"We know that if ‘Sofia the First’ was to grow up, she’d be a princess like any other. She’d still fall in love with some prince, live happily ever after in some expensive castle, and that would be the end of her story. That’s always where it ends with princesses — a kiss from a prince and accomplishing absolutely nothing. This isn’t the life we want for the girls of our generation — and definitely not for our younger generation."
#Disney
#Princess
#Sofia The First
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#feminism
#gender stereotypes
#girls
"This [entertainment] business is incredibly hard on women. If I had a daughter and she told me she wanted to be an actress, it would make my heart beat a little fast. It’s hard. But there are women who break that mold. And what’s wild is when you see that girl and she’s in her mid-twenties, that’s when a lot of women start feeling like, ‘Okay, this clock is ticking. They’re going to use me up and then spit me out.’ And that’s what this talent does, they use ‘em up and they spit ‘em out. But [I] see some women and I’m like, ‘Oh, she’s going to last. She’s going to be around for awhile.’ There’s that inner strength. We need those women. We need those actresses who can tackle these roles and not just be the pretty [one] but chang[ing] and morphing and tak[ing] these leading roles. I hope [that] there’s more opportunities out there for them."
James Badge Dale
#James Badge Dale
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#actor
#women
#film
#characters
#gender stereotypes
#feminism
