In fact, Jennifer Garner for Mayor of Everything.
Jennifer Garner on the ‘Women in Hollywood’ red carpet.
The Hollywood actress was honoured at the annual ‘Women in Hollywood’ event on Monday night, and she brought the house down with her acceptance speech, sharing her experiences with sexism in the film industry.
“The fact that there even needs to be a Women in Hollywood event is a little bit sad. I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day — it’s called Hollywood. Fifty-one percent of the population should not have to have to schedule a special event to celebrate the fact that in an art that tells the story of what it means to be human and alive, we get to play a part.”
YES, Jen. YES.
But there’s more. The 42-year-old actress went on to talk about the differences in how she and her actor husband Ben Affleck are treated by the media.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner at the 2013 Oscars .“So for example, my husband and I do kind of the same job, a little bit. Not long ago we both had one of those magical days, we call it a junket, where we both attended these lovely events where people come in every four minutes, they ask the same questions over and over again, you know the drill.
“We got home at night and we compared notes. And I told him every single person who interviewed me, I mean every single one, and this is true of the red carpet here tonight at Elle, asked me, ‘How do you balance work and family?’ And he said the only thing that people asked him repeatedly was about the tits on the ‘Blurred Lines’ girl, which, for the record if we’re talking about them, they are real and they are fabulous.”
(She was talking about actress/model Emily Ratajkowski, who starred in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video-clip, and also acted opposite Ben Affleck in Gone Girl.)
“As for work-life balance, he said no-one asked him about it that day. As a matter of fact, no-one had ever asked him about it. And we do share the same family. Isn’t it time to kinda change that conversation?”
Damn straight, Jen.
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When I was pregnant with no one and told my boss, I told him I will come back full time as husband will look after child. Answer: but he doesn't know how to do that!!!!
My reply: mine either! It is our first one, he will learn it.
Boss: but when the child is sick?
Me : He will look after the child.
boss: But when your husband is sick?
Me: My colleagues are staying home as well when their wives are too sick to look after the children .
Boss: Oh!
wow
They don't ask men about work life balance because men are just expected to work and earn money. The grass isn't necessarily greener ladies...
You don't get it. It needs to change for EVERYONE.
Spot on! First guest, the point you are trying to make is EXACTLY why we need equality.
the grass IS actually greener. we get paid less for jobs, sexualised by the media, objectified by men, expected to stay home and have lots of babies and slave away after husbands. we are constantly told that "women can't do this" and "women can't do that". we shed our unfertilised baby out of our vagina once a month. we have beauty standards pushed onto us. and if we complain about it just once, we are considered bra-burning, girl-kissing feminazis. if you're a man, i hope you are just ignorant and not genuinely a dick. if you are a woman, I'm not even sure how you could comment that, going through all you go through as a woman. we need equality because unfortunately, our grass is a wilted brown while men's is a lush green.
I agree with some of your points, we do definitely need equal pay, the media still tries to sexualise us and yes we are sometimes objectified by some men. But regarding some of your other points I have to differ. I ignore people who say 'women cant do this', I wear what I want, always have, at no point was I ever expected to stay at home, have babies and slave over my husband. And if by some chance somebody was dumb enough to make a comment like that to my face they were put straight very very quickly. I've been a SAHM and a working mum, all by choice. I've taught my daughter and son the importance of equality for both genders. As for 'unfertilised baby...' its called a period or menstruation and is a biological function, it can be messy, inconvenient and for some women painful but overall not that big a deal. You are right, we still have some levels of inequality but from where I stand and have stood for over 50 years the grass is getting greener for us.