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It's unfortunate Spike was shamed into updating the list. I fear the effect is not to help remove the discrimination and bias (that certainly exists) against w
by dpweb 11y ago
It's unfortunate Spike was shamed into updating the list.
I fear the effect is not to help remove the discrimination and bias (that certainly exists) against women in many areas of society. The effect is more likely feeding a backlash against this kind of unnecessary thing, by providing another example of what many people will just label as "PC gone wild". The net effect, it hurts the cause of trying to increase diversity, instead of helping it overall.
Provide scholarships. Encourage girls to enter film programs. Put quotas in film schools even! That's the way a woman will direct the Godfather of the future, not shaming people into including diversity into every single thing.
- alanctgardner3 11y agoIt's important to have role models you can identify with. Recognizing and celebrating the achievements of female directors is important. When you don't include female directors in lists of great movies, when female directors don't win awards, it reinforces the idea that women are allowed to enter the industry, but they can never really thrive and succeed in the same way a man can. Scholarships and quotas help at the top of the funnel, but if the middle of the funnel is still awful and discriminatory you're just feeding more people into the meat grinder.
- tomp 11y ago> It's important to have role models you can identify with. Anyone that cannot identify with someone as a role model just because s/he has a different sex, is incredibly sexist and doesn't deserve to be accomodated in any way. > when female directors don't win awards, it reinforces the idea that women are allowed to enter the industry, but they can never really thrive and succeed in the same way a man can IMO, it just reinforces the idea that women need to try harder to become better.