Anyone who’s ever set foot in the “girl” aisle of Toys R Us knows that modern toy manufacturers like to assign pink for girl-toys and anything but pink (usually blue or black or camouflage) for boy-toys. Nowadays everything is color-coded,… Read More
According to a recent study, in the highest-grossing 100 films of 2012, 70 percent of the speaking roles belonged to men.
http://www.vulture.com/2011/11/usc-study-confirms-gender-inequality-in-film.html… Read More
The character of Miss Havisham in Dickens’ Great Expectations was probably modeled after an actual person Dickens encountered in his childhood, a jilted woman who’d lost her mind and wandered the streets in her wedding dress.
(source: The Victorian City, page 10)