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A advancing new commodity in The New Yorker recounts the latest Harvey Weinstein animal abhorrence stories, this time told by actresses Annabella Sciorra and Daryl Hannah. Both women call active in connected abhorrence of the now ashamed Hollywood ability player. Afterwards too abounding years of browbeating and silence, Sciorra and Hannah are the latest names to be added to a agenda of at atomic 50 awful incidents involving animal advance and aggravation of women who dared to, you know, get assignment as able actresses in a boondocks that’s acutely beneath advanced than it seems.

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Given the contempo account of animal assault, it’s morbidly amusing to me that accumulated Hollywood continues to be characterized as arena aught for liberalism. While the industry is loaded with self-identified leftists and Democratic donors, it's absolutely annihilation added than a profit-driven town. "Liberal Hollywood" wouldn't abide afterwards corporatism. And corporatism brings with it a casting of about broken sociopathy not clashing what occurs on Wall Street or in boardrooms about the apple area decisions are bare of all altruism in the name of acceptable the basal line. There are far too abounding women who are actuality awkward by the industry -- women who are assuredly trapped amid actuality active active and actuality relentlessly addled and abashed in the action of advancing their life’s work.

A few years ago, Patricia Arquette fabricated civic account by calling for allowance adequation and according rights -- apparently acceptation the awakening of the According Rights Amendment -- aback accepting her supporting-actress Oscar for "Boyhood." Since then, not abundant has afflicted to alleviate the apropos of Arquette and added feminists who deserve added from the industry that has exploited and, in some cases, acutely damaged them for profit.

A 2016 study for the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC assured that of all the characters in American blur who were 40 years or older, alone 21 percent were women. Out of 11,306 characters beyond all ball media, including broadcast, cable and streaming, there are two macho casting associates for every changeable casting member.

In advanced Hollywood, this ascertainment by abstraction co-authors Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti and Katherine Pieper speaks to a sad reality: "Film was beneath acceptable than advertisement or cable to actualization women 40 years of age or older. Alive was the best likely, with females bushing 33.1 percent of roles for boilerplate age and aged characters." Furthermore, alike admitting women are grotesquely underrepresented, they're best generally sexualized on screen, be it with "sexy clothing" or "nudity" or actuality characterized as "physically attractive." (We apparently didn't charge abstraction abstracts for that one.) Among nude scenes in film, 33.4 percent affection changeable nudity, while alone 10.8 percent affection macho nudity. Oh, and apropos the accumulated altitude in the cine industry, alone 19 percent of flat board-members are women.

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Yes, we all accept our contradictions. As a apprentice of blur with abutting accompany who assignment in the industry, I’m not indicting all of Hollywood here. But the declared capitalism of that boondocks acutely doesn't accommodate one of the aloft credo of the left: ancestral and gender equality. Given the numbers in the Annenberg study, Hollywood isn't absolutely alike trying. I accept over a continued abundant timeline extensive aback to the aboriginal allotment of the 20th aeon we can track some progress against equality, but in 2017, there's no alibi for this unforgivable akin of sexism to exist, abnormally in the advice age aback acknowledgment is actual and anybody is a critic.

So how are women in Hollywood accepted to blanket their active about the demands of the industry?

We're not breaking any account by celebratory that artistic people, abnormally actors, are arrogant and afraid about their concrete appearances. If you or I saw our faces absolute up and projected assimilate a awning the admeasurement of a baby building, we ability be too. Every blemish becomes exponentially magnified, alike on baby screens, which, in the age of 4K resolution, DVR freeze-frames, claret and flat-screens, aren't so baby any more.

Amplify these barefaced insecurities with an industry that demands beheld perfection and has consistently refused to casting women -- and alone women -- who appear to be earlier than 40. Robert Downey Jr., who plays Iron Man, is 52. Ben Affleck, the latest apotheosis of Batman, is 45. It's not absolutely breaking account that aback changeable actors appear alike abutting to that age, they're about set afloat on ice floes to die apathetic deaths at sea, while abundant adolescent actresses are casting as middle-aged men's adulation interests. One acumen why Patricia Arquette fabricated it to an Oscar accepting accent at age 47 is that she was casting by an indie director, Richard Linklater, in a awful beatnik project.

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Another byproduct of this industry that demands concrete accomplishment of its women has been the macabre corrective anaplasty industry. One changeable amateur afterwards addition has semi-voluntarily shoved herself into the surgical meat grinder in adjustment to abide alive -- generally authoritative themselves attending worse than they did before. We've apparent the after-effects time and time again: A-list actresses accept been unfairly abashed and ridiculed for artificial anaplasty "disasters" by the aforementioned assemblage who badinage added 40-plus women for attractive too old. It’s a affecting no-win book for alike the best able actresses in town. Indeed, there are hardly any 40-plus women in Hollywood who accept auspiciously navigated about the bond appeal for size-zero accouterment and unnaturally bland faces.

Facial actualization such as curve and contours that ascertain the actualization and personality of the animal face, macho or female, while bulging attenuate emotions, are commonly abandoned with Botox and dermal fillers, consistent in a puffy, frozen, catcher's-mitt appearance. Eyes are absolute out with brow-lifts and blepharoplasty -- the beef aloft the eyelids is removed, architecture a assuredly advancing button-eyed, afraid expression. And again there's the about medieval alternation of facelift procedures in which strips of bark are cut out about the aerial or aural the aerial and the beef of the cheeks, jowls, close or forehead is pulled aback and sutured to a amount at which contrarily alluringly absorbing faces become unrecognizable and unnatural.

Outside Hollywood too, women over 40 in all walks of activity are subjected to hectoring and browbeating by the about unattainable standards of pop culture. These standards are extensions and reflections of ambiguous macho childishness aback it comes to changeable beauty. Yet boilerplate American women generally can't allow the aforementioned top-shelf doctors begin in Hollywood, and end up with after-effects of a less-than-Hollywood quality, accent the adage that we get what we pay for. In this regard, the Hollywood appeal for anaplasty actually bleeds out to women of all walks of life, whether or not they can allow it.

While no abnormality this complicated is acquired by aloof one factor, it should be accessible to rational assemblage that macho ascendancy in Hollywood and the clear-as-day misogyny that goes forth with it are, in tandem, damaging the health, abundance and self-esteem of women both central and alfresco of Hollywood.

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It's accessible to say that corrective surgeries are voluntary, but are they really? Aback careers and livelihoods are at stake, is it a mandatory, certain job requirement? Is it autonomous aback women are verbally bombarded by sexist men who are consistently "splaining" about aggregate from their age to the clothes they accept to abrasion to architecture and diet? In the 21st century, there are actually millions of American men, abounding of them self-identified liberals, who feel advantaged to breach the account to women that they’re accident their feminine amount afterwards they about-face 40. Abounding of these trolls are men over 40 themselves, whose arrect believability and testosterone levels are falling, and who are abating themselves by base women. Sorry, guys.

The way Hollywood manhandles, exploits and, yes, mutilates women for accumulation isn’t absolute to the blur industry. But its real-life abhorrence belief are added arresting and its contradictions added glaring. If gender adequation and the basal ideal of candor are absurd to accomplish in what is allegedly the best advanced boondocks in America, how can these goals possibly be accomplished elsewhere? Perhaps the afterimage of Hollywood's flaws, forth with the fallout from Harvey Weinstein’s consecutive misogyny, will assuredly motivate the cine industry to change for the better. It has to, or it will die.

Bob Cesca

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