Open thread for night owls: A little bit of insight on Hollywood's stubborn sexism from Rose McGowan
You are at a turning point in your career and in your life. Can you describe how working with artists to fundraise for organizations like the East Los Angeles Women’s Center connects with the shifts in your creative work?Let me say first that it is important for all of us to take on the status quo. Because if we don’t, it is never going to change. #Yesallwomen I am involved in because it is exactly what it is — yes, all women — and it’s time that we’re heard and it’s time that we count, more importantly. There’s a lot of people saying, "Yes, we’re very aware of this as a problem." I don’t really care about your awareness. I care about you actually doing something. Your awareness — I can’t take that to the bank. Neither can any other women. And neither can men, frankly, because they are all stuck in this societal role. I feel bad for them a lot of the time. I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
You are getting behind the camera more — do you feel that this gives you a different platform to effect change?
Well, it’s not a man’s voice coming out of my mouth. So I would say yes. And frankly, my taste level is higher than what I was put into as an actress. And I realize that I was a part of that. I tried to make their idea of the small thing I was allowed to be better than what it was. I tried. I always thought, "God, if someone actually gave me a three dimensional part I could knock the hell out of this. But as it is, I’m trying to bring you, you schmuck, to home base. You haven’t done a lot for me." And so what I get on the side is abuse on sets. What am I doing this for? It literally came down to what am I doing this for? Who am I doing this for? Cause I am no longer willing to take a man’s limit of imagination and be of service to it. Not unless it’s better. Not unless it’s smarter. Not unless it’s stronger. And they can. That’s the thing — they can. They’re comfortable because you can be lazy and get by here. You can sell a script that is lazy. But that’s not good enough. And it shouldn’t be for the male viewer either.
Do you worry that the way you are speaking out is going to affect your opportunities in the future?
No. I don’t care. I could care less. It’s them that should be worried. It’s the people that have perpetrated acts against me that should be shaking in their boots right now. And I hope they are. Also, THR and Variety are the only things that some people in this town read, as far as newspapers go, and there are a lot of things that go on in your papers that are really a part of this problem. A lot of it. You report on women on what they wear before you report on what their accomplishments are. You guys are a part of this problem. I feel sorry for so many people in this industry who are living such a bullshit existence, because they should be better as humans.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—Who is waging class warfare?
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President Obama wants to raise taxes on those making a million or more a year, and the Republicans and their media stooges whine about "class warfare." The Republicans kill President Obama's jobs program, but that's not class warfare. And the framing is standard operating procedure. It's standard operating procedure for Republicans to respond to calls for fair taxes by whining about supposed class warfare. It's standard operating procedure for Republicans to do all they can to concentrate more and more wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer without anyone calling it what it is. [...]Those striving for some measure of social and economic justice mean to hurt no one. Creating some balance in the income gap and the distribution of wealth will not cause anyone to go hungry or homeless or to lack adequate health care. Those using every possible means to deny some measure of social and economic justice are hurting people. They are deliberately and unconscionably perpetuating the causes of immeasurable unnecessary suffering. So who is waging class warfare?
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