Pickpocket wrote:are you telling me men direct more movies than women? unreal!
Exactly; what's the point of this topic? Just an opportunity for everyone to post a meaningless number and percentage?
Pickpocket wrote:are you telling me men direct more movies than women? unreal!
ShogunRua wrote:Pickpocket wrote:are you telling me men direct more movies than women? unreal!
Exactly; what's the point of this topic? Just an opportunity for everyone to post a meaningless number and percentage?
paulofilmo wrote:Over 5%, bitches!*
We are gentlemen, after all.
ShogunRua wrote:Exactly; what's the point of this topic? Just an opportunity for everyone to post a meaningless number and percentage?
theficionado wrote:ShogunRua wrote:Pickpocket wrote:are you telling me men direct more movies than women? unreal!
Exactly; what's the point of this topic? Just an opportunity for everyone to post a meaningless number and percentage?
Maybe, upon contemplating the fact that a disproportionately large number of films they've seen are made by men, some will make a conscious effort in the future to seek out notable female filmmakers?
Rufflesack wrote:No reason to be so harsh on it, what's the reason of any topic?
ShogunRua wrote:theficionado wrote:ShogunRua wrote:Exactly; what's the point of this topic? Just an opportunity for everyone to post a meaningless number and percentage?
Maybe, upon contemplating the fact that a disproportionately large number of films they've seen are made by men, some will make a conscious effort in the future to seek out notable female filmmakers?
Oh, here I was under the impression that we should be making a conscious effort to seek out good films. That the quality of the movie was what mattered, not the reproductive organs of its director. Apparently theficionado disagrees.
By the way, seeking out films specifically directed by women? That's sexist.
Rufflesack wrote:I personally can't really get behind that train of thought. Why should one make an "extra" effort to support great women filmmakers any more than one should with great male filmmakers? Being sexist in the other direction is no solution, and it's the kind of thing you generally see from feminists who don't realize they're actually only working against gender equality by trying to skew it the other way.
theficionado wrote:Most people here (myself included) have two to six percent of their total films seen directed by women. How could that figure in any sense be considered anything close to "gender equality?"
theficionado wrote:Are you kidding me? If there weren't any obstacles to women entering the film industry, shouldn't we expect about equal representation of female directors?
theficionado wrote: Since judging by this anecdotal example there very obviously is not,
theficionado wrote:I'm suggesting is merely an audience-centered corrective to address the systematic inequality. If that's sexism, I'm a proud sexist.
theficionado wrote:Not to mention, occasionally, you might actually be subject to some material and ideas outside your worldview.
Rufflesack wrote:theficionado wrote:Most people here (myself included) have two to six percent of their total films seen directed by women. How could that figure in any sense be considered anything close to "gender equality?"
If there's a problem with people not seeing enough films made by women, as you seem to imply, the problem must obviously lie in the fact that not enough women are making films, as we can clearly see that the proportion of films made by women people have seen correlates pretty well to the actual proportion of films made by women. I don't see how the work of female directors can possibly be viewed as undervalued or underrepresented in this case.
Yeah, because that's all the evidence we need to slam a huge group of people as evil bigots; an "anecdotal example" which is nothing more than correlation, not causation.
Anyways, unique ideas are created by great, creative people pouring their passion into a movie, not because someone was born with a different set of reproductive organs.