RE: Netflix, females.
November 25, 2017 at 11:11 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2017 at 11:11 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(November 25, 2017 at 9:33 pm)paulpablo Wrote: This section was up before I had really watched anything.
You're right, there is a section that says "We recommend......because you watched......" but that's something separate.
As soon as you get on netflix without selecting anything there's things like trending, brit comedy, drama, films with a strong female lead.
I just read on a feminist website
Quote:According to The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, only 22% of protagonists in the top 100 grossing movies of 2015 were female, so “female lead” categories allow women to cut straight to the good stuff instead of hunting through hundreds of titles.
All I think about that is that I've never thought the gender of the main character as being important to if I like the film or not. For example I hate the Logan films because I think Wolverine is over exposed as a character, I'd watch a film with storm from xmen who's a female black woman as the leading main character. But I wouldn't be thinking "I can't wait to watch this film with a female black lady."
I think family guy mentioned this on one of their recent episodes, if I remember right they had some guy about to watch TV saying something like "I hope there's a lot of diversity in this show I'm about to watch" maybe it was the emmy winning episode one.
I don't know anyone who sits down and watches a show thinking "I sure hope females are presented as strong characters in this film and there's enough ethnic minorities"
(November 25, 2017 at 11:41 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Paul, I saw another interesting Netflix doc last night that I think you would enjoy. It's called "Tricked" and it's about the underworld of prostitution.
I might have already watched this, I watched one that was about prostitution in the UK. I've been killing the documentaries on there because I think they're my favourite option.
This one is in the US. And yeah, doc's are my favorite.
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