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A small boy leapt to the defence of a woman being catcalled by a stranger by telling him off.
A small boy leapt to the defence of a woman being catcalled by a stranger by telling him off.
Julia Price was on her morning run when a man, who she described as "well-dressed" and "on his lunch break from an office job" began catcalling her.
Julia Price was on her morning run when a man, who she described as "well-dressed" and "on his lunch break from an office job" began catcalling her.
After she ignored him, he allegedly told her to "eff off, dumb b**ch".
After she ignored him, he allegedly told her to "eff off, dumb b**ch".
"That was my trigger point," Ms Price wrote on Facebook. She ripped off her headphones and prepared to confront the man when a little boy walking alongside his mother and little sister told the man off for his rude behaviour.
"That was my trigger point," Ms Price wrote on Facebook. She ripped off her headphones and prepared to confront the man when a little boy walking alongside his mother and little sister told the man off for his rude behaviour.
The 32-year-old actress said she has already experiences job rejections because of her age. “Now I'm in my early thirties and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part? I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it, it's the way things are,” she told Glamour.
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On news that Maggie Gyllenhaal had been turned down for being ‘too old’, aged 37, to play a 55-year-old man’s partner: “It’s f***ing outrageous. It’s ridiculous. Honestly, it’s so annoying. And ’twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It’s so annoying.”
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Gyllenhaal revealed she was told by a Hollywood producer that she was too old, aged 37, to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man. “It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh,” she said at the time.
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Meryl Streep has helped fund an all-female screenwriters group called The Writer’s Lab to encourage more women to pen Hollywood scripts. She previously told Vogue in 2011: “Once women pass childbearing age they could only be seen as grotesque on some level.”
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The actress said she thought Hollywood is “still completely s***” when it comes to treating women equally to men. ““When I was younger, I really did think we were on our way to a better world. And when I look at it now, it is in a worse state than I have known it, particularly for women, and I find that very disturbing and sad.”
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Banks said she was driven from acting to directing due to the lack of roles for older women in Hollywood. “"[Industry sexism] drove me to direct for sure. I definitely was feeling that I was unfulfilled and a little bit bored by the things that were coming across my desk. I mean look at Gwyneth Paltrow who has her Oscar [for Shakespeare in Love] and played fifth banana to Iron Man,” she told Deadline.
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“I had never seen a 49-year-old, dark-skinned woman who is not a size 2 be a sexualised role in TV or film. I'm a sexual woman, but nothing in my career has ever identified me as a sexualised woman. I was the prototype of the ‘mommified’ role,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
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The Lord of the Rings actress said she only get cast in roles where she is treated as a “second class citizen” at the age of 38. “When you’re in your teens or twenties, there is an abundance of ingenue parts which are exciting to play. But at [my age], you’re usually the wife or the girlfriend - a sort of second-class citizen. There are more interesting roles for women when they get a bit older,” she told More magazine.
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The actress famously called out sexism on the red carpet at the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards. When a camera operator scanned her up and down, she said: “Do you do this to the guys?” In her Oscar acceptance speech for Blue Jasmine, she reminded the film industry that movies with leading women can still be successful. “And thank you to... those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the centre, are niche experiences. They are not -- audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”
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Asked if she had ever encountered sexism in Hollywood, Page told The Guardian: ‘Oh my God, yeah! It's constant! It's how you're treated, it's how you're looked at, how you're expected to look in a photoshoot, it's how you're expected to shut up and not have an opinion, it's how you... If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.”
The actress says she refuses roles where she has to play the generic girlfriend, wife or sexy bombshell. "It's very hard being a woman in a man's world, and I recognised it was a man's world even when I was a kid. It's an inequality and injustice that drove me crazy, and which I always spoke out against — and I've always been outspoken,” she told Manhattan magazine.
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"Hey," he said. "That is not nice to say to her and she didn't like you yelling at her.
"Hey," he said. "That is not nice to say to her and she didn't like you yelling at her.
"You shouldn't do that because she is a nice girl and I don't let anyone say mean things to people.
"You shouldn't do that because she is a nice girl and I don't let anyone say mean things to people.
"She's a girl like my sister and I will protect her."
"She's a girl like my sister and I will protect her."
I was on my usual running path when I heard an older man yelling loudly enough for me to hear through my headphones. "...
The man was supposedly immediately embarrassed and gathered his lunch to leave.
The man was supposedly immediately embarrassed and gathered his lunch to leave.
Ms Price wrote: "According to his mother, this is a typical day in the life of James.
Ms Price wrote: "According to his mother, this is a typical day in the life of James.
"Thank you so much to the mothers and fathers who are raising the next generation to be brave and courageous, and to be little earth angels for all.
"Thank you so much to the mothers and fathers who are raising the next generation to be brave and courageous, and to be little earth angels for all.
