Women in the arts

[beccaelizabeth]

Another thing in the paper from Equity pointing out acting roles are 2 male to 1 female.
Another long comment thread where trolls stomp all over the conversation, and what little conversation there is centers around how you can't just force the arts to do things, won't people think of the artistic excellence!

I have thought. And my thought is simple.

If there aren't enough women, it's a load of rubbish.

Women are 50% of the world. Women have thoughts and feelings and agendas and actions and relationships and independence and all kinds of everything. Women are, to the surprise of many apparently, fully human.

Any art that does not depict women as full and equal parts of the world is just wrong.

Why does this even need saying?

Tell stories with women, because without women there are no stories.
You can't achieve excellence without the basics.

Comments

[anne_d]

Right on!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Very well said. I try to balance out the characters I write, although I haven't done a differential count recently.