Roads to Safe Places

Oh yes, he is screechy, and his way of talking in that "I made a funny, everybody laugh!"-way really ticks me off, too. I've just given James Rolfe a shot, and enjoyed the movie reviews so far, especially his sobriety.

Animation - really, I think the late seventies and eighties were a difficult area for TV and movies all around, considering how many trashy TV shows hail from those two decades. Still, I see what you mean with streamlining and lack of originality. Although personally, I do wonder whether precisely that genericness of the designs made many series from back in the day my favourites (non-Western, but I'm thinking of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theatre series in specific here - although that's still going, of course).

From what male-centricism, sounds much like I'd have expected it to be on the level of creation, but even on that there are several distinct issues concerning women and/in the media:
- There are often only very few women in creative positions.
- There are few people creating things for a general audience focusing on women.
- There are few people creating things specifically for a female audiences.
- There are few people creating things focusing on women for a female audience.

And that's not even taking intersecting demographies and their issues into consideration, but I guess it becomes clear that most of these issues won't be fixed by simply having more female artists - apart from #1, that is. It doesn't automatically take care of the other things because women don't only do stuff that features women for women once they control the content.