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more about #girlsonfilm more comments → token_illiterate_commenter: Well, they all can't be awesome like "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" more » inabook: I've heard it suggested before that while a naked girl in the bed is better than a lingerie-clad girl in bed, a lingerie-clad girl on film beats out t... more » redqueenmeg: Well, that's because men are the default and women are just men-prime. That's why medical studies done on men are applicable to women and if women di... more » checkyaself: It has nothing to do with women being able to understand the male experience better than men can understand the female experience, no woman knows what... more » FroderickFronkensteen: And thus, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl was born. more » JuliaStepchild: we need more of this, really... here she is, presenting joss whedon with an award. more » futuremouse: Unfortunately it seems that woman are equally as unable to jump into a female characters mind and write something I can relate to as evidenced by Sex ... more » funnyface: I have to geek out and mention that this is exactly in line with some literary theory I was reading for a class last week. Specifically Judith Fetter... more » CurtCole: I just love Meryl and am inclined to agree with anything and everything that she says. Were she a religious leader I would be drinking her Kool-Aid w... more » maneki neko: It's probably because nobody ever makes men jump into women character's minds. We call pretty much any movie with a woman character a "chick flick". A... more » boxspelunker: That kind of thinking drives me fucking nuts. "Oh, tee hee, I'm a lowly man and all the LADIES are telling me what to do! Tee hee!" AUGH I CAN'T EV... more » Dogtanian: I watched this for the first time last night. 'Twas crap. Lots of dialogue, none of it even slightly how real people actually talk. They should have s... more » DexterHaven: Oh God, Mistresses really is a big pile of shite. I watched last season as it's set in Bristol, where I live, and it's fun to see the fabulously unrea... more » Dodgergirl: I really appreciate Wadlow's sentiment, but I think it's important to remember that the problem isn't that there are men who write female characters, ... more » Pantani: Sorry, but what is he talking about? I don't mind having my ego flattered, especially when I didn't have to do anything to deserve it, but this doesn'... more » -
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Sex, Ties & Videotape: What Sexploitation Films Say About American Tastes
A new Guardian video (NSFW) about sexploitation films of the 60s and 70s includes some hilarious scenes — and some interesting revelations about sex in American movies. More » -
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Meryl Streep: "Men Run The Studios And Live Their Own Fantasies Through Them"
"It's harder for a man to jump inside a woman character's mind and imagine, ‘This could happen to me' than it is for a woman to imagine herself as a male character," says Streep. [Times Of London] -
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Male Writer Likes Women's "Soul And Strength, Toughness And Vulnerability"
Writer Richard Wadlow tells yesterday's Guardian what it's like to be the only man writing for Mistresses, a BBC series "about the tangled love lives of four modern women." More » -
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Playboy Gives Consumers An Increasingly Inaccurate Impression Of Women
Ok, fine, that's most obvious headline you'll read all day. But Katharine Gammon at Wired has crunched the numbers to actually prove it. More » -
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Debra Winger: "Women Don't Write Enough"
Debra Winger, who has become a bit of a poster girl (against her will) for the difficulties women face in Hollywood as they age, sat down with Rachel Cooke to discuss the decisions she's made. -
