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by Suture Self
Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:08 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: What proportion of your ranked movies are by women?
Replies: 145
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Re: What proportion of your ranked movies are by women?

ShogunRua wrote:Because when it comes to discussing men and women as larger groups, you can say that one tends to like something more than the other.

But when it comes to discussing individuals, reducing their entire "perspective" to their genitalia, skin color, and sexual preference is retarded.

And last I checked, movies are directed by a single individual, not groups of hundreds of millions.


Maybe I missed something but I thought the discussion was about a larger group of women (female directors)? I also don't think anyone is intentionally being reductive here.

I don't think anyone would disagree with your statement about assessing someone as an individual, though when assessing art, it's hard, maybe even impossible, to ignore the discussion of gender (or skin color, or sexual preference) and to just pigeonhole every individual as a blank slate removed from that seems unrealistic, imo.

For example: I don't know if you've seen any of the guy's films, but it would be very hard to honestly discuss a director like Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an individual without considering his nationality, his gender, his sexual preferences, etc.