"In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’" -- Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010.
I am appalled that a lifetime of work on Gloria's part, work that she and her colleagues started in the 1960s and 1970s, has accomplished so little in such a long amount of time. All Steinem asked for was 50-50 equality between men and women. She was accused of trying to incite women to take over the world and to do to men what men had done to women, but she spoke over and over as to how that was not the goal or aim at all of feminism. She mentioned time and again that men could be feminists, too. Feminism is simply about human rights and equal treatment by all toward all. How many lifetimes do we have to live with people like Gloria Steinem leading us before the numbers come to 50-50 between men and women, and then I still want it not just to be men and women but people of all gender identities.
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