What if a woman doesn't WANT to become a director? What if that same woman wants to apply her talents and abilities in some other field, whether it's medicine, fashion, etc?
You're saying that's both wrong and a "tragedy"? No, I don't believe it is.
Firstly, do you really believe that women don't aspire to be directors? This is what your argument seems to be here. According to the statisitics I posted it would be appear that even less women want to be directors than they did ten years ago. Sounds strange to me - what happened in those ten years to make film in less attractive to women?
I think we will have to agree to disagree on this point.
Secondly, you conclude that the fact that women don't want to become directors (if this is the case) isn't necessarily a bad thing. Well, I think I've made my point clearly already. It is a bad thing as it means that the film industry is less rich than it could be if it had a much greater proportion of talented people putting their creativity into making films.
An example: In the UK only 10% around of men are primary school teachers. Having worked in the teaching profession myself, I can tell you that this is a bad thing. Men can bring different perspectives to teaching, can act as male role models for children from broken homes, and may have different approaches and interests that inspire chidlren.
In short, any creative profession, that is dominated entirely by one sex or race, is losing out on potential ideas, perspective and creativity. Also, having worked in the primary profession myself I can tell you that the social status of primary teaching as a female dominated profession seriously affects the number of men that consider joining the profession.
Oh and one last point - perhaps you shouldn't post things such as "super massive pissed off post" when referring to other posts. It just suggests that you didn't bother to read that person's post or are laughing at their post - not very respectful. Don't know if this was your intention. If you want to reply to the post as a whole, maybe its better to simply write the name of the person who wrote it, eg, @Joeblogs . . .