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Geena Davis turns her attention to why there aren't more girls in G-rated movies.
  • G for guys

    "The message is clear," she wrote. "Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types. Boys define the group, its story and its code of values. Girls exist only in relation to boys."

    Here's the problem with Broadsheet in a nutshell. Salon is news for people, but apparently "women's news" is so peripheral it has to be kept in its own pink box, even on Salon.