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Student Learning Analysis on Women in Film Research
Writing about writing is the hardest thing to write. It’s like therapy on the experience of writing which feels so intimate and makes me very uncomfortable. I researched and wrote about the injustices female filmmakers face in their day to day struggle, I found the hard numbers on how many women are actually getting paid to do the jobs they spent their lives preparing for. Bringing me back to writing about writing, I’d rather do the work and not marinate on the feelings it brought up since they were not happy feelings, yet I know from my time at Antioch that the only way to process and absorb the research itself is to marinate on it. So bare with me and my marinating on the injustices done to women in the film industry, and the trickle down effect of how women portrayed on film affects the entire world and all the women that inhabit it.
There was a time when I thought many women were just blaming others on …show more content…

If the studio won't change on its own change will be forced upon it. Time to start a chain of change that will stick and how it will effect the larger picture. If we want our girls to grow up and be more than a sex symbol or a narcissistic selfie taking robot we have to show the youth that there is more to life. There are jobs that require intelligence that can still be sexy and powerful and at the same time create positive change. We need to show educators, and lawmakers, chemists, engineers, tech nerds and business women on film and television. We need to show women in positions of power with opinions and brains that are the good guys and show their actual experiences and not that of what a man thinks they are going through. We need to show women as heroes. How do you tell a woman's perspective well? You ask a woman to tell it. You ask woman to shoot it. You can start

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