I feel like we have internalized it as normal. Like Chris Rock points out - why is that a thing? Why can't we pit Meryl Streep in her most serious moments against Sean Penn crying in a jail cell? Is it because "people" feel like a grown man crying is "better acting" than Meryl Streep being a badass?
There is a similar issue in the publishing world right now, where male authors get more credit (and money) for writing family sagas than women. But why should it matter? Why is a man's book about a family called "literary fiction" but a female author's book is "chick lit"?
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Date: 2016-02-29 09:24 pm (UTC)There is a similar issue in the publishing world right now, where male authors get more credit (and money) for writing family sagas than women. But why should it matter? Why is a man's book about a family called "literary fiction" but a female author's book is "chick lit"?