This Article is From Feb 12, 2016

Producer Tweets Sexist Female Script Intros Both Hilarious and Tragic

Producer Tweets Sexist Female Script Intros Both Hilarious and Tragic

Lea Seydoux in a still from SPECTRE.

New Delhi: A Hollywood producer is blowing the lid off the sexist way women characters are introduced in film scripts, using a purpose-created Twitter account to do so.

Ross Putman, producer at PSH Collective, has only been tweeting from @femscriptintros since February 9 but already has over 36,500 followers.

His tweets - 20 so far - reproduce intros to female characters from actual scripts, simply replacing the name with the generic 'JANE.' In every intro, 'JANE' is described as beautiful, stunning, gorgeous. One of these women has had her beauty ruined by nothing more destructive than a life lived, another is a scientist disadvantaged by being attractive.

Below, some of the tweets from @femscriptintros (which is different from the handle Mr Putman tweets from as himself and which he has operated since 2013). We'll start with our favourite and then list other tweets in no particular order.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Reactions to Ross Putman's tweets range from 'hilarious' to 'disheartening.' To a question from one Twitter user, Mr Putman clarified he wasn't making the intros up.

Several quarters of Hollywood have been agitating against sexism, with interview subjects flipping questions put to male and female stars and celebrities calling for equal wages. (Also Read: Dakota Johnson Hits out at 'Brutal' Hollywood Over Ageism)
 
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