Jessica Ellis

This relationship ended FANTASTICALLY, as I'm sure you can tell

I had a bf tell me he loved me when he met me cause I reminded him of a Sorkin character and it took WAY TOO LONG to realize this was badhttps://twitter.com/mollylambert/status/846163304472952833 …

This is clearly a distraction to keep us from focusing on Russia.https://twitter.com/torontostar/status/846302077726982144 …

Favorite Movies For Each Year I Wasn't Alive: 1878: Race Horse 1879: Tintype Dancer 1880: Violinist At Phonograph 1881: Mule Zoopraxiscope

Just question yourself. Question your biases. And never assume you are the sole objective arbiter of taste. We are all limited.

And I'd say that point happens when you hear all of this, dismiss it, and don't even bother to question why you like what you like.

At a certain point, the blindness of the meritocracy STOPS being internalized and starts being willful.

You can get through 10 minutes of film twitter without a woman or minority filmmaker explaining some of the discrimination we face.

Social media, the rise in Indy film, and more foreign films going mainstream are giving underrepresented people more of a voice.

But we're hitting a tipping point, which is why Sorkin, if he wasn't being ironic, is so painful to hear.

Again, at this point, no one is going "I hate women and minorities." It is internalized, sensed and felt rather than logically addressed.

So guess who is primed to succeed on that scale? Why, dudes that are already working from that POV.

So when someone throws out the word meritocracy, they're talking about a story fitting the white male scale of Hollywood.

Film is the same. Female and minority POVs feel weird and not right because they aren't usually in the same scale.

In music, different cultures use different scales. Grew up in US/Europe? Think music from Asia sounds weird or alien?That's due to the scale

So if you've grown up loving white male films, hailed by white male critics, guess what? Anything significantly different will feel weird.

It's VERY internalized and very hard to recognize. It feels almost instinctual because it's that ingrained.

Without any intention on your part! The movies you loved, the creators you got obsessed with- they're emotionally tied to your psyche.

When your examples of great art are all from a similar source, it can make you very educated and very very blind.

Which means that we were all trained to see the default for exceptionalism and merit in film as a white male POV.