Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents and portrays women -- and the potentially destructive effects those portrayals...
========== Today, I want to tell you
about a pressing social issue.Now, it's not nuclear arms,it's not immigration,and it's not malaria.I'm here to talk about movies.Now, in all seriousness,
movies are actually really important.In film, we can be wildly entertained,and we can also be transported
through storytelling.Storytelling is so important.Stories tell us what societies value,they offer us lessons,and they share and preserve our history.Stories are amazing.But stories don't give everyonethe same opportunity
to appear within them,particularly not storiescompartmentalized
in the form of American movies.In film, interestingly enough,females are still erased and marginalizedin a lot of our stories.And I learned this for the first time
about...
