Geena Davis Shares Two Simple Steps for Making Hollywood Less Sexist

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15. Men are taught to be unable to enjoy anyone but characters like them.

Video games can't have female protagonists, because men won't buy the games (and apparently women walk so weirdly, it'll use money better spent on making sure every snowflake is different.) Boys won't read books with girl main characters, won't watch movies unless there's at least two sexy women in them, won't even want to think about the world from a girl's perspective. That is the prevalent attitude, and as a result, boys and men have to go beyond their comfort zone if they want to think equality.

(Women have never had a comfort zone to get out of.)


(We see the result on DU every day, as male posters refuse to believe when women tell them their experiences as a woman in society.)


(And when women discount what other women say - because they have been taught to privilege the male point of view too.)