The opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy, it's democracy.
There are women out there who serve as ventriloquists for the patriarchy.
We gotta get a little estrogen up here on the stage. . . A media that leaves women out is fundamentally crucially flawed. . . you can't tell the whole story when you leave out half the population. . . the absence of women in the media is glaring. . . women's viewpoints are regarded as supplemental rather than essential to the story. . . too often there's an unspoken quota of one. . . the sad fact is most people don't even realize there's a problem. . . gender and inequality are so deeply ingrained in our culture that we tend to consider it a fact of life. . . the real danger of conservatism is its denial of even the possibility of change. . . but we can change and we must. . . if women were reflected equally in the media, women would start to feel like they matter...
More videos from the National Conference for Media Reform (including Geena Davis)
More goodies at the Women's Media Center
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