You know, I think Zero Dark Thirty is precisely about the lead character’s experiences and perspectives as a woman in a mostly male world. Her difference, her femaleness are consistently emphasized— Maya is often shot in a oner, whereas the male characters are in group shots; she is separate and different from all…

How about just films by women directors in general. the films can be about whatever the fuck they want — women, men, one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eaters, etc.

But that’s the point of my analogy. Would a nine-woman Supreme Court rule only on women’s issues for women’s cases? Of course not. Would it rule effectively and equitably on non-women’s issues? Of course! However, would it have more sensitivity to women’s issues, when they arise, than past courts, especially the…

Agreed. Publishing industry case in point. It’s an industry where women overwhelmingly dominate at every editorial and decision making level and yet still produces the chick lit-serious lit dichotomy and heavily gendered marketing we see while also favoring male literary writers.

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg is asked about what is a good number of women on the Supreme Court, her answer is nine (all of them). When someone is surprised by her answer, she points out that there were always men on the court for its first 200 years. Why should it be any more surprising for there to be nine women?

Right, and I agree. All I’m saying is that sometimes it feels like we’re a little girl in the playroom watching the boys take all the toys and going like, well can I have the dolls that the boys aren’t playing with? And I want more than that. I want us to have the basketballs and the tonka trucks, too.

Women are so poorly represented behind the camera that simply asking for women directors to direct films about women is a revolutionary statement in Hollywood.

I think it’s more a point that there are so many stories about female experience told by men and it is interesting to wonder whether these would be different if told by women.

I’m not worried about men, friend, I’m worried about ghettoizing women’s work. Relegating it to a special women-only wing of the vast entertainment empire.

To be honest, sometimes I get itchy over the women directors for women’s stories refrain. It can start to feel like we’re isolating stories about women, declaring them things that only women can understand, and thereby reinforcing the idea that men can’t enjoy or relate to them. And yet women can relate to men’s…

Yeah, IDK why some women choose to age. It’s such a poor decision, on their part.

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Why didn’t the doctor just hand the cop a Pepsi?

This video is a nightmare. I caption phone calls for deaf people and I do conference calls a couple times a week. They’re awful. 1 person captions the entire call including background noises. It’s a bitch to try to keep up with 4 people talking over each other and 8,000 acronyms that mean nothing to me because they…

Holla! My patented conference call move is when I try to cover for my complete zoning out with such hilariously transparent feints as, “Sorry, you broke up for a second there...could you repeat the question?”

I always like to recall the one time on a major conference call between our company’s executive management team including CEO and a new major client worth a significant sum to discuss finalizing the contract. Typical conference call software kept crashing on my laptop and I needed to pull up slides for all to see when…

My coworker’s office is next to mine. She came to my office to gossip for almost a half hour. After a lull in conversation, I ask, “Did you leave the radio on in your office or something?” She says, “Oh no. Conference call.”

She got fired for this and people here are outraged on her behalf.