Comments on: Bad Girls Make More Money http://www.twirlit.com/2009/07/28/bad-girls-make-more-money/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:10:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amanda http://www.twirlit.com/2009/07/28/bad-girls-make-more-money/comment-page-1/#comment-4068 Amanda Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:09:25 +0000 http://www.twirlit.com/?p=17747#comment-4068 How is writing a movie with a female protagonist "made to order" ? If that's true, then writing a movie about a male protagonist would be equally made to order, no? They had great ideas for stories about monsters and robots and old people who like balloons, and these stories only lended themselves to male characters? This offends me. I suspect that writing a woman leading the story has never even occurred to the male workers of Pixar. How is writing a movie with a female protagonist “made to order” ? If that’s true, then writing a movie about a male protagonist would be equally made to order, no? They had great ideas for stories about monsters and robots and old people who like balloons, and these stories only lended themselves to male characters? This offends me. I suspect that writing a woman leading the story has never even occurred to the male workers of Pixar.

]]> By: Matt http://www.twirlit.com/2009/07/28/bad-girls-make-more-money/comment-page-1/#comment-4039 Matt Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:01:05 +0000 http://www.twirlit.com/?p=17747#comment-4039 Can we stop with the idiotic "Pixar needs to make a movie with a girl!" crap already? As Andrew Stanton said in response to this: "If we made movies to order, they would suck!" They make what they have great ideas for, and until they have a great idea for a female lead they won't make one, simple as that. Can we stop with the idiotic “Pixar needs to make a movie with a girl!” crap already? As Andrew Stanton said in response to this: “If we made movies to order, they would suck!” They make what they have great ideas for, and until they have a great idea for a female lead they won’t make one, simple as that.

]]> By: Marianne http://www.twirlit.com/2009/07/28/bad-girls-make-more-money/comment-page-1/#comment-4031 Marianne Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:18:39 +0000 http://www.twirlit.com/?p=17747#comment-4031 Why I agree with you in principal - we certainly need more roles for leading women and movies about women and their lives - I disagree with your lead example. Sorry, but if "The Ugly Truth" is as good as us women get, then no thanks. If anything the movie perpetuates ugly stereotypes, masking them into some sort of unconvenient "truth". Well guess what, that may be true for shallow guys and the kind of girls who date shallow guys, but it's not true for all women (or men) and it's certainly not true for me. Why I agree with you in principal – we certainly need more roles for leading women and movies about women and their lives – I disagree with your lead example. Sorry, but if “The Ugly Truth” is as good as us women get, then no thanks. If anything the movie perpetuates ugly stereotypes, masking them into some sort of unconvenient “truth”.

Well guess what, that may be true for shallow guys and the kind of girls who date shallow guys, but it’s not true for all women (or men) and it’s certainly not true for me.

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