drst:
do you ever watch something and think “this was written by a man”
i was up late night watching an episode of criminal minds fairly recently, for lack of a better thing to do. in the opening scene there are these two girls getting into their car in like a supermarket parking lot, not very well lit, in the middle of the night. another car drives up right behind theirs and won’t move out of the way so this one girl is like “im gonna go see what this guy’s problem is” and gets out of the car, in a poorly lit parking lot, to confront a man who was behaving aggressively to them.
so that was the precise moment i realised that episode was written by a man.
This is a useful exercise!
This is a great post highlighting the male centered society we live in. Men often don’t see life from a women’s point of view and don’t think about the obstacles and precautions women need to take. So often women’s lifes are not portrayed in the media correctly because of the large number of males that are producing it.
OMG accurate
“Dudes wrote it” sums up so much.
I think my favorite Joe Biden story is that during the drafting of the Violence Against Women Act, he went to his female staffers and asked them to talk about things like what they do when they walk into a parking garage late at night, because he knew if he didn’t understand their perspective and experience, the law wouldn’t be worth the ink on the page.
(via loveforeversmilealways)
