Comments on: Creative women and the beast called sexism

By: Kathy Smith

Kathy Smith — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:39:35 +0000

I have moved into making documentaries. When I took the first one to the film festivals, getting to know the competition and what distributors were buying for their audiences is an amazing marketing learning curve. When I was in post production I experienced similar criticisms, rejections, assholes, pressure (c.r.a.p.) and still being green felt the money hose guys were right and new best.

Once the surveys were done with the exec “edit”, I spent the next 3 months re-editing and took it to more festivals and it will be an evergreen now as I bought out the exec. producers. I do hope we get to see what the director intended some day. It’s too bad she was bypassed by a know-besty type of guy. It would have been better for her to fight. Now I see why some films look like just another payday insulting audiences with being interesting rather than interested.

By: TJIC

TJIC — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:53:48 +0000

The word “hysteria” has a crystal clear definition: “neurosis marked by emotional excitability”. It is true that the Greeks attributed this condition to the uterus, but the usage for at least several hundred years has been gender neutral – the term describes any man or woman who is easily excitable.

The desire to remove the word from the language (or, at least, forbid it from being used to describe a woman) is a form of PC New Speak, which seeks to limit expression so as to limit thinking.

…but I could be wrong.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:40:04 +0000

with the number of movies currently in theaters (or that have played in recent months) with running times well over two hours, one wonders _why_ ms. taymor can’t be given the liberty to make more than a 90-minute movie. clint eastwood, robert de niro, alejandro gonzález iñárritu, todd field, and craig brewer seem to have had no trouble putting out films near or over the two-hour mark…

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:53:46 +0000

[Shaking head here.] “Hysteria” (from the Greek root for “womb” as in -ectomy) has been, as you say, a gender-bomb for decades. Back in the Freudian era it was the disorder of choice for making one’s analytic “bones.” Nice women converted their frustrated sexual energies into all sorts of interesting symptoms. Very dramatic.

Invoking it even obliquely in a 21st disagreement over creative prerogatives (where emotions run as high as any business context in our culture) is just plain foolish. Lots of luck, Joe. You’re gonna need it.