The Wrong Kind of Women Quotes

“White men have created 95% of the cinematic images we’ve ever seen in American main stream films, have made all the micro-decisions related to the shots, the framing, the lighting, the sound design of movie images that we have ever seen. So powerful is the impact of film and so ubiquitous white men’s perspective in shaping it that their worldview has been normalized to the point of being considered the one true, accurate, and all-inclusive reflection of reality. It is not. It is one narrow prism through which we are all being forced to look.”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

“White men's stories continue to be considered Important and Universal. If the films of Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, or Christopher Nolan don't "speak" to you, you are considered by other filmmakers and creatives to be a philistine of the highest order, one who is simply too ignorant to grasp the depth of their genius.

But men can hardly be expected to sit through the films of those female filmmakers most radically plumbing the depths of the female experience—Karyn Kusama, Jane Campion, Tamara Jenkins. After all, they are telling "small" and "personal" stories.”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

“It is little surprise, then, that after ten-plus years of watching movies with stars who are digitally altered, an international study shows that, as of 2014, “90% of all women want to change at least one aspect of [their] physical appearance. . . . [And] 81% of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat. Only 2% of [women] actually think [they] are beautiful.”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

“Behind the courageous women who did speak out there is a long list of women who remain silent including very success women”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

“When we talk about women in film, it is dangerous to assume that, as things improve for women that they will improve in equal measure for all women. Historically and, it seems in this current, unsettling political moment, the opposite has been the case. What meager progress has been made for women overall has tended to disproportionately benefit white, cis, straight, and able-bodied women.”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

“The excuse for sending women to director’s jail, to not rehiring them, to firing them off movies in the first place, is almost always that she is “crazy,“ “difficult,” or “impossible to work with.” This is not so far flung from the days of sending women to their beds for being perceived as hysterical and it is no less powerful. As with the archetypal Cassandra, with that one word “crazy,” we remove her ability to tell the truth to the world.”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

“You can explain the lack of career success of any one woman in a thousand different ways, but to look at what is happening across a gender and say it is our fault, that it is down to weaknesses in each of us, is to very simply say that women, as a gender, are just less talented, hard working, and psychically intact. And not a little bit, but so much so that we are collectively undeserving of having voices in the industry that creates the stories that shape our culture.”
― Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood