I have a problem with movies, and I know you do, too.  When I go to the movies, what I see is that a disproportionate number of the characters are white, heterosexual, and male.  It really ruins my enjoyment of movies.  It strikes me as odd, as if movie makers are under the delusion that we are a country filled with straight white people.

Fortunately, you and I are not alone suffering with this.

The numbers are stunning: From 2007 through 2014, women made up only 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing fictional films released in the United States. That is one of the findings in a study, “Inequality in 700 Popular Films,” being released on Wednesday, that looks at gender, race, ethnicity and what one of the report’s researchers, Stacy L. Smith, describes as an “epidemic” when it comes to lack of diversity.

It's an epidemic!  It's cultural AIDS!  But this time, it's spread through heterosexual characters!

The movies are white: 73.1 percent of all the speaking or named characters in the top 100 movies were white.

Why is it in a country that is 77% white, 73% of all characters are white?  Oh, wait a minute...who's being discriminated against again?

The movies are straight: Only 19 total characters were lesbian, gay or bisexual — none were transgender.

When I see a movie entitled Mission Impossible, I expect it to be about two gay men trying to conceive a baby.

The movies are young: Only 19.9 percent of female characters were 40 to 64 years old.

You know that this is what audiences want to see.

The report found that 4.9 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing movies of 2014 were “Hispanic/Latino.”

However, the report didn't say what percent of Hispanics were in the 100 bottom-grossing movies.  Maybe that compensated!

By the way, the article didn't mention blacks in films.  I guess now that we have Obi-Wan Kenobi's black daughter and black Storm Troopers, and now that Superman's Jimmy Olsen turned into a black man, they are finally getting the representation they deserve, no matter how awkwardly they are wedged into films under unlikely pretexts.

Let's get serious.  People don't want to see action films, or even romances, starring older women.  In fact, in our culture, most people, women as well as men, want to see action movies starring young men, with an emphasis on men.  Not gay men, not transgendered men, but actors who at least are playing characters who are heterosexual.  (Ironically, if a study looked at the sexuality of the actors, as opposed to the characters, it might find discrimination of a very different kind.)

What this "study" is attempting to do is put pressure on movie studios to be more politically correct in their casting.  Movie studios are run by liberals, but liberals who want money, and they know that action movies starring lesbian middle-aged characters are not going to do very well, although I have heard that Thelma and Louise did not do too badly.  In fact, in recent years, we have certainly seen the "chickification" of many films, starring women who act like men.

But that's the point.  In our culture, we expect men to act like action heroes.  Women aren't lesser or inferior, but their roles are different.  This is part of the continuing war on our culture to make men into women and women into men, and also to make enough people confused enough to believe they are both or neither.

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