These Real Hollywood Scripts Show How Superficially Female Characters Are Written

OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Jeva Lange), The Week
Wed, 02/10/2016 - 2:02pm

Much has been said about the lack of substantial roles for women in Hollywood films — female characters are disproportionately underrepresented and hypersexualized, a 2013 study found. The issue goes far beyond who is directing the movie, too: A character is, after all, first conceived in a script. That's where Ross Putnam comes in. Putnam is a producer who has created a Twitter account to highlight the fact that women are written as sexual objects right from the start.

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