Masterlist!
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Iván de Pineda for GUCCI by Mario Testino 2003
i genuinely think we should have more cross-gender acting in film. i think cis female actors should play cis male characters and vice versa without the characters’ masculinity or femininity being a joke and i think this ought to happen enough that it isn’t a big deal at all. cast timothee chalamet as marie antoinette he can pull it off. let gong li play an emperor. this will be good for everyone, especially me
limbobongobingo asked:
WAIT FIVE GUYS ISNT A MASC HOOTERS???
sapphling answered:
I want to print this ask out and frame it and keep it on my nightstand so it’s the first and last thing I look at every day until I die
The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and what We Can Do about it (Mary Ann Sieghart, 2021)
“Men behave worse when they outnumber women. Put a woman alone in a
meeting with four men, and 70 per cent of the interruptions she receives from men are negative.
Turn
it round so that you have four women and one man in the room: here,
just 20 per cent of the interruptions women receive from men are
negative.
As the study says, when women predominate, ‘Men undergo a drastic change. They become far less aggressive.’
Even very small boys – aged between three and a half and five – interrupt girls twice as often as the little girls interrupt them. (…)
Paula Stone Williams, a trans woman, married and had children before she transitioned.
‘I am learning a lot about what it means to be a female
and I am learning a lot about my former gender,’ she says.
‘There is no
way a well-educated white male can know how much the culture is tilted
in his favour.
There’s no way he can understand it because it’s all he’s ever known and all he ever will know. I never thought I had privilege, but I did.
‘Apparently, since I became a female, I have
become stupid.
The more you’re treated as if you don’t know what
you’re talking about, the more you begin to question whether or not you
do in fact know what you’re talking about.
I now understand a woman’s
tendency to doubt herself.’ (…)
And not being listened to can have serious implications for women’s mental health.
Anita Martin is a psychiatrist in the north of England, covering a population of 120,000, and she told me, ‘It comes up again and again for women when they’re depressed that they find it really difficult to be heard, really difficult to assert themselves.
Everyone needs agency in their life. If your learned experience is that you’re not listened to, that your opinions don’t matter, you think there’s no point my doing anything because nothing will change.
That’s the message that they’ve constantly had from society, that what they think doesn’t matter. We see that more in women than men.’”
