I hope that you are not hacking my phone or getting information from people who are hacking my phone.
For a few days, I have thought about what I should say about the seemingly automatic reaction of the people who are managing Mrs. Clinton's campaign, to the last page that I wrote about what you gratuitously named your production business in 2015. What the Clinton campaign seems to have decided to do is to make "Stronger Together" Mrs. Clinton's campaign slogan, referencing your movie, "Stronger."
You didn't have to cast an actress whose last name is "Maslany" for your love interest in the movie.
You didn't have to cast someone named "Bates Wilder" in the movie at all, particularly not as a police officer, which is what the IMDb website for your movie says that you did.
This is the address for that IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3881784/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
I feel bad for those actors, because I know that it's difficult to get work in the entertainment industry; however, that doesn't reduce the negative impact on me which their casting was deliberately meant to have.
I read the interview that you had with the "The Australian," which was published today and for which this is the address:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/jake-gyllenhaal-discusses-new-film-demolition-and-privacy/news-story/3e96fe987899573e9a5e6f7c0f147311
This is a quote attributed to you from that interview:
“I know the differences between the way men and women are treated,” he says. And “the sort of insidious, subtle nature of sexism. I wasn’t so aware of it — it’s not so easy to see — but I have become aware of it. I have a lot of very strong, very smart women in my life.”
The sexism in your industry is not subtle. I don't know if you read the page that I published on June 28, 2016, quoting a report about your industry. The title of the page was
"1.9 percent of the directors across the 100 top films of 2014 were women."
This is the address for that page:
http://homelesspeoplearepeople.blogspot.com/2016/06/19-percent-of-directors-across-100-top.html
This is the address of the report that I quoted:
http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/Inequality%20in%20700%20Popular%20Films%208215%20Final%20for%20Posting.ashx
This is the address of another report by the same people, about diversity in entertainment:
http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/CARDReport%20FINAL%2022216.ashx
This is a quote from the second report for which I have included the address:
"For the past 10 years, we have quantified disturbing patterns around the lack of media representation concerning females and people of color in film. Despite elevated awareness around this issue, the numbers have not budged."
What happened in 2010 was that the socially lethal misogyny which had developed in the entertainment industry over the past century took over the world, facilitated by the misogynist parts of the establishment outside of the entertainment industry that had never totally stopped being misogynist. During the decades since the social movements for equality in the United States began, when other industries have had to, usually grudgingly, accept some women and stop men from harassing and attacking women at work, the entertainment industry has abused the right of free speech to such an extent that most women who want to work as part of that industry have to agree to be degraded. For the most part, that industry has never had anyone other than men doing the writing, directing, producing and financing, and all they have had to say is "If you don't want to be naked and stupid for this movie, somebody else will, so get out." The entire industry is defined by that scenario. Even entertainment which doesn't explicitly force women to be naked and to behave as stupidly as what the entertainment industry thinks of as being the way that stupid women behave is affected by that paradigm.
Journalism is also historically sexist, so it's not that surprising that the media has promoted harassment, stalking and voyeurism.
This is the address of a June 6, 2016 Fortune article called "The Percentage of Female CEOs in the Fortune 500 Drops to 4%":
http://fortune.com/2016/06/06/women-ceos-fortune-500-2016/
This is a quote from that article:
"The 2016 Fortune 500 list, released on Monday, includes just 21 companies with women at the helm—compared to 24 last year and in 2014. Or, to look at it another way, women now hold a paltry 4.2% of CEO positions in America’s 500 biggest companies."
What that power disparity means is not just that there are a lot more rich and powerful men than there are rich and powerful women; what it means is that decisions that affect the lives of millions of women are mostly made by men, in a system for which men have always made the decisions. Society and culture are literally owned, managed and defined by those men.
The social media of one celebrity could potentially influence the votes of millions of people. That's not even to mention the movies, televisions shows, songs, ads, and every other type of propaganda that the conglomerate has produced since 2010. The temptation to exploit the resources and the ignorance of the entertainment industry and its stars is something that few politicians have resisted.
I'm glad that you think you have started to have some concern for the way that your industry abuses women, but I don't think that you or many other people who are part of the entertainment industry realize how obscenely misogynist that industry is.
I have never wanted to be arguing with celebrities or anyone else all the time. The near-total lack of awareness from most of the celebrities with whom I have interacted has deflected most of what I have ever said about what they don't know their industry is like. I think that fame must be a very isolating way to live; after a while, all you know are other famous people, or people who weren't famous and who briefly walk into the lives of famous people and for whom every interaction is infused with celebrity as a noun.
The money that male and female celebrities have also prevents them from regularly having the types of interactions with the rest of the world that would help them to understand that a sexist joke on a movie set that everyone thinks or says is funny, because the only people who are allowed to be at that set are people who don't object to the mentality that thinks it's funny, is turned into something that isn't funny at all for women working at minimum wage, and even much higher wages, and whose working conditions are dictated by people who see the subsequent movie and who also think that it is a funny joke.
The gains of women in American society since the 1950s are not negligible, but women were already nowhere near equality with men in the world before 2010.
In 2010, corporations were ecstatic that President Obama and many other politicians were doing everything that they could to destroy human rights for women. President Obama and politicians all over the world were happy to exploit the money, publicity, and potential votes that the support of the entertainment industry could get them; that trend, unfortunately, has continued into this election year.
In 2010, corporations were ecstatic that President Obama and many other politicians were doing everything that they could to destroy human rights for women. President Obama and politicians all over the world were happy to exploit the money, publicity, and potential votes that the support of the entertainment industry could get them; that trend, unfortunately, has continued into this election year.
I think that the politicians who are consistently hostile to me have chosen to believe every hateful thing that is said about me, including the outrageous, victim-blaming lie that I deserve to be the chronic target of voyeurism and involuntary pornography, because it is advantageous to those politicians to have the endorsement of the corrupt, criminal media, and it is disadvantageous to them to be spoken ill of by that media. It's nothing other than bullies bullying people to be bullies, but the cowardice of those politicians is an unfortunate sign for the world. If they don't care about the chronic violation of my rights, they at least could care about the hundreds of people who also got victimized by voyeurism in the psychiatric units, homeless shelters, gyms and who knows where else that cameras were hidden to get illegally filmed video of me. They could care about the voyeurism, involuntary pornography and child molestation that are being promoted at schools in Massachusetts by Governor Baker and a number of colleges; they could care about the destruction of people's rights, but they obviously don't.
The social media of one celebrity could potentially influence the votes of millions of people. That's not even to mention the movies, televisions shows, songs, ads, and every other type of propaganda that the conglomerate has produced since 2010. The temptation to exploit the resources and the ignorance of the entertainment industry and its stars is something that few politicians have resisted.
This is the address of a page of the website for the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University:
It's a page about women in elected office in the United States. The average is about 20%. How would you feel about living in a world where you have a 20% chance that the decisions that are made about your life are made by people who have any idea what your life is like?
That chance is actually less than 20% for women, because of the compromises that many, if not all, female politicians are forced to make and/or feel that they have to make to get elected and to continue to be in office.
I'm glad that you think you have started to have some concern for the way that your industry abuses women, but I don't think that you or many other people who are part of the entertainment industry realize how obscenely misogynist that industry is.
I have never wanted to be arguing with celebrities or anyone else all the time. The near-total lack of awareness from most of the celebrities with whom I have interacted has deflected most of what I have ever said about what they don't know their industry is like. I think that fame must be a very isolating way to live; after a while, all you know are other famous people, or people who weren't famous and who briefly walk into the lives of famous people and for whom every interaction is infused with celebrity as a noun.
The money that male and female celebrities have also prevents them from regularly having the types of interactions with the rest of the world that would help them to understand that a sexist joke on a movie set that everyone thinks or says is funny, because the only people who are allowed to be at that set are people who don't object to the mentality that thinks it's funny, is turned into something that isn't funny at all for women working at minimum wage, and even much higher wages, and whose working conditions are dictated by people who see the subsequent movie and who also think that it is a funny joke.
There is no question that Jeff Bauman is a heroic person who has had a terrible tragedy. It's unfortunate that the movie about him has some gratuitous moral issues.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, July 12, 2016 @ 8:53 p.m.
