No discernible reason? How about trying diversify the message sent to girls who read/watch/play with these characters? It's depressing to see, growing up, that women in public must be sexy to be allowed any space.

Even today, the issues that get the most discussion time and space are the ones relating to body image, stay-at-home motherhood and abortion, and while they obviously affect all women, I think it's telling that they take precedence to issues like racialised misogyny, violence against transgender people or poverty…

Allyship is not a picnic in the park and it's also not about the ally. The idea is to persevere because you believe in the cause and because you have basic compassion and sense of justice, even if it's tough and sometimes you feel snubbed or underappreciated or not entirely at ease, not to make your comfort and…

This looks like she has a fungus growth on her shoulder.

I love this. It reminds me of queenly gowns of the 18th century or something along those lines.

I'm specifically talking about acting here though, the actor's own effort into building the character. I just don't think playing a real person, which can often amount to nothing more than skilled impersonation, is necessarily more difficult and therefore more deserving of notice than playing a fictional character,…

There aren't that many genuises in real life either but they get disproportionate representation anyway, so why can't female scientists or politicians or sportswomen get the same treatment?

I think it's defined by how much that part of her identity is tied to her performance and the film's point - if her being someone's wife or just being a good or bad wife is central to the film's message/plot, then I'd say she's defined primarily though that, even if she has another occupation and secondary plots about…

I suspect that if "real person" was a category, it would comprise about 90% in both actor and actress wins.

I actually think she left him hanging - he was all read to high five her and then he looks at her face and sees she's looking at Legend, who was already coming with his hand raised.

Me too but that doesn't mean I care who designed them. I'm never going to be able to afford them anyway, so it's all the same to me. How about actors pay for the clothes they wear instead of subjecting us all to a 3-hour non-stop ad for those ridiculously overpriced designers, and we get to learn more about the films…

I agree they can evoke an emotional response, but I don't think it's necessarily harder than playing fictional people. I'd argue the reverse could be true in many cases, because there seems to be a lot more of a creative process behind bringing a fictional character to life and making the audience care than to…

Really? I thought it was boring and formulaic, and the humour was tired and shallow. The endless parade of high-end actors was really irritating, too - like visual name-dropping; and it like they were there to make up for the lack of originality and it seems it worked.

Acting is not equivalent to imitation though. It's about evoking emotions/reaction in the audience by bringing a (usually fictional) story to life. Acting is more than just the closest impression of a real person someone can produce.

Especially if you're a gorgeous actress who has to fug down for the role.

Yeah. I don't see how this is so hard to grasp: the "fighting for justice" rhetoric is very attractive to young people who are usually idealistic. Even more so if those people are marginalised and oppressed and the rhetoric promises to right this wrong being done to their human dignity. It's like people just assume…

In my country everyone is guaranteed 4 weeks of paid leave a year, and then parents get additional time for child-rearing. I think it's completely fair. Vacation is vacation, child-rearing is work, and it benefits all of us in the long term. (Just to be clear, taxes pay for maternity leave, not companies; companies…

No. I mean yes, everyone should have 4 weeks of paid leave a year. But parents should also have parental leave. Recovering from birth and then taking care of the helpless human you created, who will some day be paying taxes and helping the economy not collapse completely because of a negative population growth, who…

Yeah. I'm child-free too and I agree. I think it was merely a rhetoric device - not that only women who give birth deserve rights, but that everyone who creates these rights (and withholds them from women) came from a woman. A bit melodramatic, but it didn't strike me as exclusionary.

I feel the same way. And even some of the men I'm forced to interact with through mutual friends, I'd rather not. All I get from it is having to grind my teeth at sexist jokes and being talked down to.