Women as Prey or Freddie's Girls

I just watched CSI's 200th episode.  It starts with a young, blond woman running from a pursuer.  At the end of the scene, she falls down twice because she becomes fixated on her pursuer.  The second fall, she simply lays down and waits for her pursuer, who is at least 3 or 4 seconds behind her.

What year is it people?  Last I checked, it was the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, and woman are still being portrayed on television and in the movies as victims.  Me, I'm a woman, if someone's chasing me, I keep running until I get away, or get caught, I ain't waitin' around for Freddie Krugger to come and kill me.  And another thing I'm not doing, I'm not making (clearly audible) whimpering noises, otherwise known as prey noises.  I don't know when it was that we, as women, were socialized (taught) to be prey.  I musta missed that day.  I gotta say, if some guy, twice my size, is trying to kill me, I'm looking for the piece of re-bar, or a rock, or whatever, cause this girl ain't nobody's prey.  And I gotta say, I don't know too many women who's survival instinct is so weak, they wait around for the monster (or husband or boyfriend) to kill them.

The sad fact that some women get so beaten down by a boyfriend or husband and made dependant that they actually believe that it's better take the beating, and get it over with, and get on with the making up.  Some call that 'paying before playing'.  Love is a beautiful thing.but, sometimes it makes us delusional, we look at a monster and see a prince.  For some women, it's about believing that they can fix their man.  I'm not judging anyone.  The truth is, as someone who's spent most of her adult life studying psychology, I try to understand.

My wish, that media (tv and film) portray a more enlightened view of women.

What is a human, and how did we come to be us?

Only 1.5% of our DNA actually makes us human.  So, why do we carry around the other 98.5%.  Basically, to give us a spinal cord, 2 arms, 2 legs, with a head on top, sporting 2 eyes, 2 ears, a nose, and a mouth.  But, where did that 'extra', or junk, DNA come from?  Straight-up evolution?  Can't be substantiated.  From where then?  The same way Neanderthals (and all other human-like specimens) disappeared from the earth, interbreeding.

There was a time, when nearly every other species on this planet had a representative sub-species which was compatible enough with the proto-human of the time, and, quite likely, bipedal.  That's the way it was.

Don't believe me, or believe something else, prove me wrong.  That is the essence of the scientific method: propose a theory (hopefully that you, the scientist, believe in) and test it, prove or disprove it.  But, for what it's worth, I believe (and have believed for most of my life) this theory to be true, and self-evident.  As I said, I welcome the scientific community to test my theory.  I've wanted that for as long as I've believed it, in fact.

The Academy's (Long Overdue) Gift to Female Filmmakers

On Sunday evening, 7 March 2010, a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, won the Best Director (as well as the Best Picture) Oscar for a film called The Hurt Locker.  This, as it turned out, was a historic event.  No woman, in the long history of the Academy Awards, had ever won a Best Director Oscar.  Why?  Had no woman ever directed a movie before?  No, obviously not.  Although, reportedly, it is more difficult for a female director to garner funding`, or financing, for a film project, especially if the movie is a major project, with much tech.  I've also been told, it's nearly impossible for a woman to be hired as the director of a major studio movie, unless they can secure rights to a project (such as a novel or stage play) AND secure independent funding (or fund it themselves, out-of-pocket).

So, what does Miss Bigelow's Oscar win mean for her?  Hopefully, it will mean that she can fund her next project, far more easily.

So what does Miss Bigelow's Oscar win mean for other female filmmakers?  Hopefully, it will make it much easier for other female filmmakers to be taken seriously, and give them greater access to funding/financing.  It should also make it easier for woman to become film and television directors and producers.

Just a few thoughts on, what I believe to be, a very long overdue event in entertainment history.  I welcome comments from my audience, as always.