Reminder of that era when society needed to re-train itself

I Wish Clint Eastwood Would Do to Himself What Female Movie Journalists Are Always Doing to Their Sources by B. Andrews

It needed to be more interested in women as human beings.

"The problem is which liberties get to be taken with the presentation of real-life figures, and why, and by whom. The problem is that the first time I can recall personally encountering this stereotype is when I was in high school, and that was not the last time by a long shot. The problem is my female colleagues and my friends who work at other publications all have stories in which we’re hit on by male sources, or random men we encounter who operate on the assumption that the combination of our gender and our profession means we’re ready to fuck to get a story. The problem is that we as female journalists have to fight sexism and harassment while we’re in the field, and then we return to a newsroom where sexism and harassment are rampant, and then when we want to unwind we turn on a movie, Absence of Malice, say, or Never Been Kissed, or Trainwreck, and we watch female journalists mingling the personal and the professional in all the ways we’re constantly clarifying to men that we won’t."

~ B. Andrews

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/12/i-wish-clint-eastwood-would-do-to-himself-what-female-movie-journalists-are-always-doing-to-their-sources-richard-jewell/