MISOGYNY, SEXISM & PATRIARCHY IN CINEMA
People call the film industry a place of dreams, but is it really? Even with decades of progress, people still shut others out of opportunities based on their gender and identity. Misogyny, Sexism and Patriarchy in films is still a problem for people behind and on the big screens. Sexism is so easily institutionalized in its mainstream commercial films. Almost all the mainstream Bollywood flicks for over a decade now contain at least one song where women are clearly objectified and treated as sex objects - the item number- which is then solely justified on commercial viability of the movie. While in its history of 100 years, Bollywood never displayed any radical stance when it came to challenging patriarchy per se, rather the films on most occasions espoused all the retrograde notions of patriarchy and male chauvinism but it was never as unabashedly misogynous as they are now! Bollywood in fact portrayed women as the ‘weaker sex’, the ‘fairer sex’, often as the ‘damse...