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Stockholm Cinema begins to rate "gender equality" in films
Submitted by fathers4fairness on Wed, 2013-11-13 17:08
CBC Radio personality Jian Ghomeshi interviews Ellen Tejle, director of the Cinema Rio in Stockholm, Sweden about their plans to introduce a "Gender Equality" rating system for movies.
The scoring system was devised in 1985 by cartoonist Allison Bechdel in her comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For".
Ghomeshi discusses what Ms Tejle about hopes to achieve with the plan - and speaks to a film critic who feels it is a misleading and ineffective way to raise awareness about gender equity.
An 18:23 min interview segment included.
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I Wish They Would do this in the US!
That way, I could simply look for a high "gender equality" rating, in order to know which movies to avoid.