The Men of the Oscars humiliate a brilliant woman

[flamingdem]

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/03/02/the-men-of-the-oscars-humiliate-a-brilliant-woman-mallick.html



Here's a page with the video to see the reactions:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/oscars-audience-refused-to-clap-for-jenny-beavan-after-costume-design-win-w165857

I don’t watch the Oscars. They’re cheesy yet pompous, tacky yet money-larded, and particularly brutal for women, both those nominated and those watching. So there’s that.

But the ceremony outdid itself this year. As with human beings — the ones who don’t tip the pizza delivery man or who underpay the nanny — it’s the small moments that are most revelatory about one’s character.
The treatment of British costume designer Jenny Beavan as she won her Oscar for Mad Max: Fury Road was profoundly awful. A series of men in the seats lining the long walk to the stage — important men are always given easy access — stared at her with open loathing, refusing to applaud.

Spotlight director Tom McCarthy, 49, openly laughed at her. Best Director (The Revenant) Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 52, drew his eyes up and down her entire body, looked repelled and kept his arms crossed. Steve Golin, 60, a rich man, producer of The Revenant and Spotlight, studied her and remained frozen.

Beavan is 66, heavy-set, with frizzy hair and little makeup, if any. In a Mad Max tribute, she wore leather jeans, a leather jacket with jewelled skull on the back, heavy scarf, and chunky jewelry. She looked brassy and cool, in other words a person who has worked on the signals, purpose and esthetics of film costuming for decades. Clothing sends out a declaration: hers said, “I’m the real thing. I design. I am not to be consumed.”

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But who cares how a genius looks? Hollywood is hell for smart women. Your best-before date is your early 20s, which means you have no time for education. You must be skeletal, obedient, and fantastically pretty and you must be lucky in the powerful men you meet and audition for.

I always tell female student audiences, “Never underestimate how much you are hated.” The Beavan serial humiliation was proof. Brains and talent won’t save you from ridicule.

[IamTheNoodle]

1. The assumptions made in this article are ridiculous

The writer seems to be to lazy to ask the gentlemen she is attacking or has no access to them so she makes things up and projects it onto them. Disgusting.

[Brickbat]

3. There, there.

[flamingdem]

4. Check out the video if you're interested:

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/oscars-audience-refused-to-clap-for-jenny-beavan-after-costume-design-win-w165857

[IamTheNoodle]

6. I just did and it proves the articles was nothing more than click-bait.

The video clearly shows that mass majority of men and women in that area are not clapping until after she walks by, including the men. it also shows the women looking her up and down like everyone does to every winner who walks down to collect their award.

The writer notes she didn't watch the show and apparently couldn't be bothered to watch video but based her thoughts off a short gif and projected her thoughts onto the men.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/mar/01/string-of-stars-fail-to-clap-for-oscar-winner-jenny-beavan-video

[flamingdem]

7. The reality is that she was attacked elsewhere as well - and that Hollywood doesn't like

to include women much more than those of other races.

Do you know how many women have won Best Director at the Oscars in its history?

[IamTheNoodle]

8. I'm disagreeing with the writer and her attack on the gentlemen, nothing more

I know the award show makeup looks like a 1960's golf club.

[flamingdem]

9. Now I feel the urge to google

60s golf club. The article does overdo but the issue about women is real. Funny that doesn't get much attention but the racial issue was the main news story this year.

[shenmue]

14. Enjoy your stay

[Brickbat]

2. They didn't humiliate her -- but they sure made it clear what they thought.

[flamingdem]

5. It's not just oscarssowhite it's even worse for women

Considering we're 50 percent of the population only ONE woman has won Best Director ever. Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker, an ex of James Cameron - and I mention that because of how she had to have a male elite mentor to be liked.

[msongs]

10. good thing she's not an Asian, speaking of male behavior at the oscars nt

[DesMoinesDem]

11. What an absurd, stupid, embarrasing article full of nothing but projection.

No, Beavan wasn't humiliated. Did the writer even ask her? Of course not. But the writer of this article humiliated herself by writing it. You have to have a messed up mind to think that people not clapping at an oscar winner until after they are passed somehow means that the men hate the woman for what she is wearing. What went wrong in this writers life to come to that conclusion?

[shenmue]

15. Having fun, huh?

[DesMoinesDem]

16. No, reading that article was not fun.

And knowing that there are sexist idiots out there that can watch a 3 second video and invent an entire story out of it with no regard for truth is sickening. Fuck sexist idiots.

[zappaman]

12. That was fucked up.

Everyone at the party I was at thought she looked awesome.

[ananda]

13. I think she looks fine.

Of the two in the picture, she's the only one
that looks human.