This Is How a Woman Gets Written Out of Her Own Obituary

[Soph0571]

Sondra Locke has died. She was a director and Oscar-nominated actress, but by The Hollywood Reporter’s account, she was just Clint Eastwood’s money-grubbing ex-girlfriend.

On Thursday, THR ran an obituary for Locke, originally headlined “Actress Sondra Locke, Embittered Ex of Clint Eastwood, Dies at 74.”
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Sondra Locke’s death should be a chance to look back on her life and recognize, in 2018, all that the press missed, and what we still miss when we cover the lives of women overshadowed by powerful men. The press in the 1980s and ’90s chose to frame her relationship with Eastwood not as an abuse of power, but gossipy tabloid fare, with her at fault for the destruction of her career. And considering The Hollywood Reporter’s account of her life, it’s clear that we haven’t moved beyond that framing.

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We need to demand better in 2018

[madaboutharry]

1. So disheartening and outright disgraceful.

May she rest in peace.

[oberliner]

2. They changed the headline

"Sondra Locke, Oscar-Nominated Actress for 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' Dies at 74" is their current headline.

[localroger]

9. As many Twitter users have discovered though...

through the magic of screencaps, once you've put it on the Internet you can never really take it back.

[oberliner]

13. That is true

But at least maybe they realized the problem.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. Good. I hope they got a message that sticks.

[oberliner]

14. Hopefully so

[Guilded Lilly]

3. Jaysus. n/t

[mountain grammy]

4. Disgusting

[rickyhall]

5. She deserved much better

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Writers shouldn't even bring up former marriages

in a person's obituary. It just isn't right, not to mention what they were doing to this woman.

[tavernier]

7. I read her book long ago.

I’ve read similar things written about him from others who have worked with him but wish to remain anonymous because he has such power.

To me he has always seemed creepy, but that’s neither here nor there. If he is the monster that she/they claim and the proof is there, this is a good time to come forward and finally clear the lady’s name. Bigger assholes have fallen from grace and are being exposed these days.

What do you say, Clint? Are you lucky?

[Duppers]

12. For years I have refused to watch his movies

Because of what I read about him decades ago.

RIP, Sondra.

[marble falls]

8. Just a footnote in a man's biography. Shameful trivialization of a woman's life.

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Way to ignore a very successful woman. RIP Ms. Locke

All I will remember Clint for is his rambling 12 minute speech to an empty chair.

[demigoddess]

15. I would ask, if he didn't want children why didn't he have a vasectomy.

Easy and simple. God! what a cretinous misogynist!!