Academic Men Explain Things to Me

Geena Davis relayed this story at a lecture she gave at my university on the lack of decent female representation in children’s media. She’s been leading research on the subject to present it to studio executives and get more respectable female characters in shows.

She presented scores of terrible statistics about what little girls watch on television and recreate themselves at the Writer and Animators Guild. One of the executives in the audience raised his hand to comment, “We’d put more female characters in films, except that they’re so boring.”