La Belle Laide

Aloha, my name is JulesKD and my real home is here. I use this just to follow people and things I think are nifty.

Before anything else I'm a novelist, in search of an agent, ~~growing a pair~~ refining my query letter.

Stuff I care about: Being art, through Kung Fu (choy lei fuht, broadsword and staff, light-contact sparring, trapping, and forms,) and through dance (Hula/Polynesian.) Human rights, equality, and the freedom of choice for all. Health and wellness, not only for me, but for everyone. I think you have to fight for those things and not just bitch about them. Science, animal rights, availability of information, sustainable living. Movies, music, art, and how best to have fun and adventures. Laughter, friends, joy. I root for the underdog.

Stuff I don't care about: Make-up, hair, shoes, purses, what's fashionable, cooing at myself in the mirror, who's banging whom.

Oh, and finally I'm a massage therapist and I love my job! So I could tell you a story, make you feel awesome, dance a Hula, or I could leg-sweep you and punch you in the face. YOU NEVER KNOW.

Ask me anything

26th February 2012

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Sleeping, Probably.: RE: female directors →

infinitybuttons:

In general, nobody gets an Oscar nomination until you’ve had a career of a certain length; and then when you’ve made a film that has some commercial success in a genre that the academy typically favours.

Kathryn Bigelow is an exception to the rule about female directors partially because she is…

Great writeup re: female directors. I think a huge part of the problem of why, exactly, we don’t have many female directors it because Hollywood is a sausage party, for the post part. Women are extremely underrepresented or MISREPRESENTED by the media. Because society views us as mysterious objects, and quite often, not even as humans. “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

This is a systematic problem, not merely a “but women should just try harder” problem. (Which is NOT what the original poster said - but which I have heard in other places.) For women to be represented better in media, and thus to have more opportunities in media, the entire system of how we’re views has to change.

The same, by the way, goes for persons of color, minorities, LGBT and other people who aren’t white dudes. This is all interconnected; you can’t really acknowledge one issue without acknowledging all of them!

Great post!

Tagged: women women's issues sexism