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(81,264 posts)Double standard much?
Sheesh - when Barbra Streisand directed her first film (Yentl, in 1983, in which she also starred) she got shit for this, too. I remember her being lambasted as a bitch because she was forceful and meticulous - holding herself and everybody else to a high standard, because it WAS, after all, HER movie.
It was also pointed out how sexist this criticism was. The first female studio chiefs Dawn Steele and Sherry Lansing found the same thing. When they were strong executives they too were lambasted as bitches and ball-busters - AND WORSE (man-haters and even lesbians for examples - insulting entire groups of women and artificially laying on negativity, in the process!). But a man doing the same things, with the same leadership style? HE would be PRAISED as strong, gutsy, bold, and other positive descriptions.
It was unfair, unjust, undeserved, and sexist then and its still that way now.
The climb for women has been slow and hard. We ARE held to a different standard, one thats artificially imposed on us by others based on THEIR OWN cockeyed and wrong-headed thinking. That old bullshit has been awfully hard to fight through!