Women & Hollywood

About twenty minutes ago, I got out of the New Moon screening and am pissed off for a number of reasons! First, I have a 12 year old sister who went to a friend's birthday party (the friend is also 12) at a rented out movie theater to see the Twilight sequel. One mom there had seen the first movie 26 times. My mom told me after she saw this ... See Moresecond film, she became a fan. This surprised me, but I thought if my mom likes it, surely it must be good. Tonight I went to see it, and I was very disappointed. All I saw was an 18 year old anorexic girl who can only be with her boyfriend by trying to commit suicide, and only finds her friend beautiful after he tears off his shirt. What my little sister can learn from this is that if you are skin and bone, depressed (well, maybe not when she's lying in the water like a corpse), have no girlfriends, cut yourself, kill yourself, sell your soul, you can have the man of your dreams. What kind of message are we sending to young girls?! Even women my mother's age? This is crazy!

I mean no offense to the actors or anyone else involved in the making of New Moon, but it saddens me that these are the kind of messages the media is giving females of all ages. Is this really what women want from Hollywood?

KS has always been thin; it's just her body type. If you saw her on Jimmy Fallon you wouldn't think she was anorexic.

Just wondering what happened to Jennifer's Body. We know women will go to movies in huge numbers, so why didn't the fangirls come out for JB? It left the theaters before I could see it but I would have thought it might have broken through from a core niche hipster audience to a wider one. Was it the wrong marketing? Was it lack of studio confidence?

Great post!

Outrageous!

It is beyond pathetic. And oh wow, look. They actually included one man of color.