remedial math for the movies
I have been flying a lot lately and you know when the pilot comes over the intercom and tells you all lazily reassuringly at what altitude you are flying and that you can unhook your seat belt (at your own risk) and feel free to move about the cabin? Well, why is that voice never a woman's? Why have I never in m'whole life had a female pilot?
And then I come back down to earth.
Looks like the Guerrilla Girls are on the stick once again, doing some of the old remedial math, but this time on the movies. According to feministing.com:
Women directed only 7 percent of the top 200 films of 2005. No woman has ever won the Oscar for best director. And only three have been nominated.
In collaboration with MoviesByWomen.com, the Guerrilla Girls bought a billboard space in Los Angeles down the street from the Kodak theater (where the Oscars take place) to, um, point this little, teensy-weensy discrepency out.