Hollywood hypocrisy is the gift that keeps on giving.
Various identity groups like GLAAD have been hammering the entertainment media industry to putting more and more “marginalized” groups on screen, and now there’s a liberal university study railing for better quota fulfillment. They’ve got the numbers to say that, despite all the Hollywood grandstanding, they are not putting their money where there mouths are.
In a report by USC Professor Stacey L. Smith and the university’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative “Exclusion remains endemic in popular movies.”
Now someone might be thinking, “Wait, really? I’m constantly getting hammered over the head with Hollywood talk of diversity, inclusion riders, and celebrities grandstanding about the scruples of playing trannies as cisgender females. There needs to be more?” Well, if you look at the numbers, apparently yes.
According to Deadline.com, the USC study took a look at “48,757 characters in 1,100 ‘top films’ (the top 100 at the box office each year) from 2007 to 2017.” The study provided what’s called an “invisibility analysis” to determine, for example, how many females have occupied large roles over the eleven-year period. Only 30.6% of Hollywood characters have been female, and LGBTQ characters a meager 1%.
And despite all the self-righteous award show talk of progress, 2017 hasn’t shown any real improvement whatsoever. Professor Smith stated, “Those expecting a banner year for inclusion will be disappointed.” Only 33 women had major roles in any of 2017’s big budget productions, and only about four of those were non-white. This represented little to no change from 2016’s casting practices.
Smith, who helped to develop the “inclusion rider” principle that Frances McDormand endorsed at the 2018 Oscars, stated, “Hollywood has yet to move from talking about inclusion to meaningfully increasing on-screen representation for women, people of color, the LGBT community, or individuals with disabilities.”
The initiative’s report also analyzes the way in which women and other “invisible” groups are treated when they are given screen time. The facts show that, like every previous year in the study, women have been sexualized twice the amount of times men have. The metrics for this are whether these women have been “shown in sexually revealing clothing, partially naked, or referenced as attractive.”
Clearly, the accursed male gaze has been the downfall of societal decency for years. And still, we haven’t woken up!
Oh, and don’t even get these state school lefties started on the amount of victims groups represented in the director’s chair. It’s not something that any proud liberal could look at without fainting. A paltry 4.3 percent of women have directed the ‘top films’ over the last eleven years, and out of them only four were African American, three were asian, and one was latina. Only 5.2% were black directors from either gender, and Asians in general made up 3.1%.
Smith argued that the only solution for peace in this dystopian white washed entertainment world, was to enact the flipping change. Stop talking about it, movie makers, and do it. “Good intentions are not enough to create change.” Regardless of where you stand on forced diversity, it still never gets old to know that Hollywood may not even have enough integrity to take action on their lefty causes. On paper, they’re all hypocrites. But we knew that, didn’t we?
