Why Do We Accept Skewed Gender Portrayals in Media?
I recently came across an interesting article in HuffPost Books while scrolling through my twitter feed. Laura Santoro, Writer and Former Foreign Correspondent for HuffPost, explores an underlying reality in fiction; that female characters are more limited than their male counterparts. She writes: I came to a Child of God by Cormac McCarthy late in life — so late that I remember going to a dinner party and loudly objecting to the protagonist, Lester Ballard, dragging the frozen corpse of a woman he’d murdered from the attic and waiting for it…
TV Shows: Women Writers Need Not Apply
The results are in, and they are discouraging. The Writers Guild of America just released their 2013 TV Staffing Brief for the 2011-2012 TV season, and the outlook is as frustrating as ever: Of 1722 writers who wrote for 190 shows, 519 or 30.5 percent of them were women, and 269 of them were people of color. For women, those numbers are up 5 percent from the 1999-2000 television season—as the report put it, “At this rate of increase, it would be another 42 years before women —roughly half of…
Aleeah Gould: it’s not just a “boy’s sport”
This is the story of Aleeah Gould, a 14 year old female wrestler. We were really pleased to speak with Aleeah and her mother, Mindy, to talk about Aleeah’s wrestling career, gender stereotypes and the strength it takes to stay on top in a male-dominated sport. Don’t forget to check out Aleeah’s two-page spread in The Women’s Issue! It all started at age 6 – when Aleeah’s father (an assistant high school wrestling coach) had brought her 4 year old brother into the kids’ club to get him started in…
A snapshot of women
As a therapist you meet all kinds of people and learn about their experiences. The problems I see with women are very similar to those that I see with men. The only difference is the ways the different genders deal with those problems. I don’t want this article to include stereotypes of women, so I will simply describe my experience of working with women with mental health and drug problems. I choose to work with people of all ages with anxiety, depression, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, psychosis, drug addiction,…
Woman of The Year: Heather Lynn Colonna
Every year, Beutiful picks a strong woman to make our “Woman of The Year.” This year, our woman is Heather Lynn Colonna (you can also read about her in The Women’s Issue, our digital magazine)! Her story is one of strength, resiliency, perseverance and unyielding faith. You’re sure to be inspired by her! My Journey To Self-Acceptance and Healing My name is Heather Lynn Colonna and I am twenty-seven years old. I now accept myself and love myself unconditionally; thanks to my faith in God. Strengthening my relationship with God…
