yoyo dances

life can be frustrating at times, especially when you are searching for something exciting, looking for that special friend who will make your sojourn on earth more lively and engaging, that special moments in sesame street where life is just about jumping up and down and having fun. well, it seldom never is unless you choose to find joy in the situation you are in. just ask God for help in that.
Anyway, i meant to talk about gender inequality in movies, i am not an expert in this and i have not done much research so as to come up with accurate statistics. but have you realized that male characters practically outnumber their female counterparts in the screen.
let us start with an example, in the film THE ICE AGE, that lovely digital cartoon about a grumpy mammoth, a nerve-grating sloth-like mammal and a suave sabre-toothed tiger named Diego are out in a noble mission to bring a human baby back to his 'herd'. nothing wrong with that really only that both herds, the tiger one and the human herd, held no hint of the female form. it is a naturally expected fact that for a race to survive, females have to outnumber men since they can only give birth once a year unlike men who can impregnate many women at a time.
now i do not know what ploy the ice age marketers were trying to use but i certainly did not appreciate the fact that was presented to kids like the ice age was just a world for men.
look again in Titanic, that lofty tear-jerker that had many reaching for their hankerchiefs. why is it that that female lead character could only discover her freedom after being shown how to by a man ( leonardo di caprio's character). could she not guess things for herself, could she not discover her power by herself without involving a man.
why is it that in every sensational novel or movie, the woman is shown as being an emotional wreck who finds love in the most inconceivable form such as falling in love with the pirate who killed her brother, the former governor of San Domingo
yes it is always like that, the men have worthwhile careers, whether clean (governor) or vile (pirate), the woman is just at home being dressed and pampered by maids employed in her father's rich estate while being tormented by sexual images. pathetic isn't it?
well, i could talk on forever and give you more and more examples, all i want to say is that those screen writers and novelists should finally realise what century we are in. ciao