A Film Producer Is Tweeting Awfully Sexist Descriptions for Female Characters


Meet Jane! She’s lithe, leggy, and spirited—attractive, but too much of a professional to show she cares. Most days she wears jeans, and she makes them look good. She was a model once, but living an actual life has taken its toll.

If that sounds like a garbage way to introduce a woman, well that’s exactly the way that Ross Putman—a cinematographer and producer of such gems as Trigger Finger and First Girl I Loved—says female characters are routinely described in the movie scripts he’s read. He’s taken to social media to publicize them. According to Putman’s Twitter bio, the characters’ names have been swapped for Jane; otherwise the descriptions are word for word from the scripts.

While it’s not surprising to see Hollywood treating female leads as sexual objects, this series of verbatim descriptions illustrate just how bad the situation is. Here’s hoping Jane gets to play the role of a fully realized woman soon.

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