The Sh*t

From a new blog:

"For girls, it goes beyond getting your foot in the door. If you want to make it in this industry, you need to get a boob job."

-- Advice from another female animation director ...

Fortune Magazine had a piece about The Shit People Say to Women Directors (And Other Women In Film), which noted ...

... “Sexism is one of the most socially accepted forms of discrimination and a pervasive disease in the film and television business,” the founders of Shit People Say to Women Directors said in an email to Fortune. “The former president of the [Directors Guild of America] has acknowledged that gender inequality is a systemic problem that there is no easy solution to. There isn’t just a major gap in opportunity and earnings — it’s an enormous chasm. In fact, there were more opportunities for women in the silent era than there are in 2015.” ...

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer-director ... said she thinks “S—t People Say to Women Directors” will be a force for good in the entertainment business.

“The more people realize the stupidity of some of this stuff … they’ll be more careful because they don’t want to get quoted in there." ...

As we've noted previously, more women are finding their way into animation in 2015. There are far more women in art/animation schools today than twenty years ago, and women's steady march from entry level positions to director, storyboard and journey animators' slots continues to happen (17% of employees working inside unionized L.A. animation studios four years ago to 21% today.)

The cartoon business is still, by and large, a boys' club, with an abundance of boys in charge, but (happily) the landscape morphs day by day.