Hollywood: one of the last bastions of condoned, flat-out, in-your-face sexism

Ed Driscoll asks at Instapundit,

...why are leftwing enclaves such hotbeds of racism and sexism?

Ed links to a column by Maureen Dowd noting that less than 2% of Hollywood movies have a female director. Scott Ott adds at PJ Media,

Since a hacker sprung an email leak at Sony Pictures in 2014 — revealing, for example, that Jeremy Renner made more than Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams for American Hustle— it's become clear that one of the last bastions of condoned, flat-out, in-your-face sexism, is the place where Progressives, Liberals and Democrats have worked diligently to craft a culture that will finally elect America's first woman president.

...Meanwhile, we all look forward to Hillary Clinton's news conference when she decries the discrimination and income inequality in Hollywood, sends back all of their political contributions, and calls for federal oversight, and steep financial penalties on this cesspool of sexism.

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Meanwhile, commenter jag20 notes at Instapundit,

Newsrooms are hardly diverse, colleges are rape and racist pits and now Hollywood is sexist, not only underpaying females but also baring them from significant positions. Why even liberal Democrats underpay women as well as (like Bubba) often abuse women (and their relationships with their wives) sexually.

Its almost as if liberals cannot convince even the MOST liberal institutions to behave "liberally". How is that possible from THE most intelligent people in society? The most "compassionate" people in society?

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Hiding behind her own skirts

Mona Charen writes at Real Clear Politics,

The best response to the charge of sexism is ridicule. Any female candidate who hides behind her own skirts to avoid robust debate is not striking a blow for equality or dignity. Rather than displaying fitness for the job of commander in chief, she's conveying her weakness and inability to compete. Any male candidate who pulls his punches is patronizing her. Anyone who takes her on (within the bounds of civility) is according her respect.

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No!

Kurt Schlichter, writing at Town Hall, urges conservatives to unleash the awesome power of "No."

Social justice bullies

Aristotelis Orginos writes in Medium that

...if history is read as a book, the supporters of social justice are typically deemed the heroes, the opponents of it the villains.

However, Orginos notes that today's social justice warriors

have warped an admirable cause for social, economic, and political equality into a socially authoritarian movement that has divided and dehumanized individuals on the basis of an insular ideology guised as academic theory. The modern social justice movement launched on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Jezebel, Slate, Huffington Post, et al. is far more reminiscent of a Red Scare (pick one) than the Civil Rights Movement.

... In order to uphold the sanctity of this viewpoint, adherents ostracize dissension. It’s nothing new — it’s a tactic as old as religion itself. Instead of holy texts, though, the millennial social justice advocate bows at the altar of the currently-in-vogue ideological Trinity: Marxism, Feminism, and Post-Colonialism.

...Let’s talk about racism. The mantra of the movement is thus: It is impossible to be racist against white people because racism is the equivalent of prejudice and power. Since white people have social and economic institutional power and privilege (in America), those who are racially oppressed cannot be racist toward whites since those who are racially oppressed do not have power.

...A millennial social justice advocate can discount an opinion simply because it is said or written by a group they feel oppresses them. It is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem whereby one attacks the person saying an argument rather than the argument itself. But this logical fallacy has become the primary weapon of the millennial social justice advocate. It is miasma to academia, to critical thinking, and to intellectual honesty. Yet it is the primary mode of operating on college campuses nationwide.

...The version of millennial social justice advocacy that I have spoken about — one that uses Identity Politics to balkanize groups of people, engenders hatred between groups, willingly lies to push agendas, manipulates language to provide immunity from criticism, and that publicly shames anyone who remotely speaks some sort of dissent from the overarching narrative of the orthodoxy — is not admirable. It is deplorable. It appeals to the basest of human instincts: fear and hatred. It is not an enlightened or educated position to take. History will not look kindly on this Orwellian, authoritarian pervision of social justice that has taken social media and millennials by storm over the past few years.

But the fact of the matter is — anyone unwilling to engage in productive, open, mutually critical conversations with people they disagree with under the moral protection of liberalism and social justice are not liberals, are not social justice advocates, and are not social justice warriors; they are social justice bullies.

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With Obama all criticism is "racist. With Hillary all criticism will be "sexist."

Glenn Reynolds:

JUST AS ALL CRITICISM OF BARACK OBAMA HAS TO BE RACIST, ALL CRITICISM OF HILLARY WILL BE DEEMED SEXIST: Media Matters writer cries sexism over column critical of Hillary Clinton. That’s how you have to play it, when your candidate can’t withstand normal criticism.