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INTEREST: Former Ghibli Producer: Women Too 'Realistic' to Direct Fantasy Films

It also falls into the common fallacy of "[x minority] isn't doing this, therefore they don't want to do it". i'm sure there are tons of women who would love to direct if given the chance, but almost every director right now is a man, so it's a lot harder to get into the industry. obviously.

@ Chrysostomus

Many factors are involved for many fields, from parenting and society steering gender in one direction to possible hostile environments to work with(especially in tech fields). Income disparity, sexism, racism, entertainment, etc can make it hard or steer in another direction.

Haterater wrote:

@ Chrysostomus Many factors are involved for many fields, from parenting and society steering gender in one direction to possible hostile environments to work with(especially in tech fields). Income disparity, sexism, racism, entertainment, etc can make it hard or steer in another direction.

Social-cultural differences are the major factor, but research has shown that sex differences are also partly biological (see Connellan, J., Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Batki, A., & Ahluwalia, J. (2000) Sex differences in human neonatal social perception. Infant Behavior and Development).

Arale Kurashiki wrote:

It also falls into the common fallacy of "[x minority] isn't doing this, therefore they don't want to do it". i'm sure there are tons of women who would love to direct if given the chance, but almost every director right now is a man, so it's a lot harder to get into the industry. obviously.

Well, sometimes that's true though. I mean, women have absolutely nothing stopping them from playing chess. But how many chess grand masters are women? What if it's a simple fact that women aren't interested in playing chess the same way men are?

There is nothing wrong with saying that women, for example, are not fit to work construction - just like I am not fit to work at Victoria's Secret. Stop making artificial drama.

There is nothing wrong with saying that women, for example, are not fit to work construction - just like I am not fit to work at Victoria's Secret. Stop making artificial drama.

Well, Haterater absolutely has a point, and while I can agree that a few things are biological, they tend to be lesser and don't impact things nearly as much as socio-cultural differences. For one thing, biology will never affect society intentionally holding back some peoples' opportunities.

I honestly sort of took this as an insult to guys, saying that they are idealistic, and incapable of creating realistic works. But whatever.

I would have titled this article: Former Ghibli Producer: Men Too Idealistic to direct Realistic films.

The headline. *sigh*
Just like with all the Miyazaki quotes, let's make this a click-bait and let people discuss something without having enough context to properly judge what the guy said.

Lol the one journalist countered his comment with the Female directors of Michiko to Hatchin and Oregairu. Those are both realistic shows, and that's what Ghibli producer said women were good at.

Ambimunch wrote:

There is nothing wrong with saying that women, for example, are not fit to work construction - just like I am not fit to work at Victoria's Secret. Stop making artificial drama.

You have not seen ALL women. Some women are actually very freaking strong. And who the heck do you think worked in the factories during World War II when the men were overseas?

And heck, 85% of WOMEN aren't "fit" to work at Victoria's Secret. We're not their "ideal representative"

Many factors are involved for many fields, from parenting and society steering gender in one direction to possible hostile environments to work with(especially in tech fields). Income disparity, sexism, racism, entertainment, etc can make it hard or steer in another direction.

Social-cultural differences are the major factor, but research has shown that sex differences are also partly biological.

And who the heck do you think worked in the factories during World War II when the men were overseas? The women were working in the f'ing factories building ammunition for tanks. So LMAO of on the not being "fit to work construction", their efforts helped defeat HITLER..! xD

I hope the guy knows that men do work at Victoria's Secret. If a woman is strong and responsible enough to work construction, and a guy is personable enough to work sales at Victoria's secret, let 'em! Women and men should be able to do whatever they want if they're capable.

I also wonder if Ambimunch and others like him in this thread think that black film actors were almost entirely terrible in American until the 1960s. I'd hope and think not, but taking their logic to its natural conclusion...

It's not like there's a systematic prejudice that keeps women away from positions of power, like, for example, the directors' chair. No, it's totally that having a vagina makes you incapable of doing that job.