Confess Your Internalized Misogyny

Hollywood is a brutal place to be a female. Audiences don't want to see you on screen if you are older than 25. But what about off-screen? The moral panic now is focused on the lack of female directors, and how this supposedly represents intolerable discrimination.

The problem is so bad that there are lawsuits coming from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the American Civil Liberties Union. It will be a battle between feminists and movie studios. All of which are operated by Jewish homosexuals. Too bad they both can't lose.

Instead of suing production studios, they should sue the DGA. Women are only five percent of members of the Directors Guild of America.

Anne Hathaway seems pretty emotionally fluent, but she relies on feminist tautologies instead of naked honesty. In this interview with Peter Travers, she relates how she couldn't or wouldn't allow herself to trust director Lone Scherfig because of her own "internalized misogyny."

I'm comfortable using terminology like "sexism" to discuss differing attitudes that people have towards women. I will even allow that hatred of women exists. But why turn an issue about sexism into a Gender Studies assignment, about how Anne Hathaway was somehow conditioned against her will to hate women?

Why use a feminist tautology instead of simply admitting that she has trust issues, or doesn't fully trust women directors? I don't think she understands the answer to this, either. She frequently covers her mouth while speaking, which might mean that she's trying to suppress her truth.

But she looks away and scans the room frequently, which suggests she is still thinking about this subject. And her chest is flushing, so she might be embarrassed. She is going to a place of deep insecurity, and it shows.

I, for one, am agnostic about female directors. If their work is original and compelling, like Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 Near Dark, then the director's sex is irrelevant. Film direction is a pure meritocracy.

Perhaps Hathaway didn't trust Lone Scherfig because, after reading the script, she was embarrassed to be working on an insipid chick flick that looks like it ripped off, Same Time, Next Year.

It would be nice if we could just say, I don't trust her because I don't know her, or I have unresolved issues. Anne Hathaway should be better than resorting to feminism 101.