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Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Lloyd Evans, Tanya Gold

Best of the Spectator

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The Sensitivity Readers

Most people i've spoken to needed no persuading that men were being given short shrift on screen. But the consensus was simply that this wasn't unfair. For at least a century, women have been misrepresented on screen, they said. Male directors have made films by male writers presenting women as men want to see them. It's time to redress this balance. Should we burn men because men once burned witches? should we take their votes away? Maybe thei'r children too? And what about our te nages quietly absorbing this skewed reality, or net flicks and taking it for fact?

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