Film Producer Tweets Sexist Descriptions Of Women From Actual Scripts, World Loses Their Shit

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Everyone, meet Ross Putman, a producer with many credits under his belt who is now my personal hero.

Putman has recently taken to twitter, creating an account specifically to show the world how female protagonists are being described in film scripts that he has been reading.

The description on this profile reads:

“These are intros for female leads in actual scripts I read. Names changed to JANE, otherwise verbatim. Update as I go. Apologies if I quote your work.”

If you were to read these character introductions of the “Jane’s one at a time, it would seem like a cute little joke, but after reading several of Putman’s tweets in his feed, it becomes worrying that this is how females are actually being described in films. Not just any female characters – the LEAD female characters – the characters that we are supposed to care about and want to support. The main characters in films that people want to get made.

Could you seriously imagine Robin Wright, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Julianne Moore, Amy Schumer, Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington, Jessica Alba or Jennifer Lawrence reading these descriptions and going “Yeah I can totally see myself as a FARMLAND BEAUTY QUEEN”?

Yeah, me neither. Either these are all scripts written by Michael Bay, or beginning screenwriters have some serious learning to do when it comes to female character descriptions.

In all seriousness, well done Ross Putman for revealing where the sexism in Hollywood is coming from.

The tweets went nuts and gathered plenty of momentum. People from the Twitter-verse and beyond responded by praising Putman for highlighting just how hilariously bad the sexist scripts were.

Screenwriters and authors take note. We don’t need this kind of shit in the 21st century!