counterpunches: bidonica:Today’s installment of why“but it has always been like this!” is a bulls
counterpunches: bidonica: Today’s installment of why“but it has always been like this!” is a bullshit argument: @nitratediva lays down the law about the role of women in early Hollywood #um yeah#when filmmaking began#it was mostly women poc and like former circus people#basically it was people without a lot of power or privilege#because movie sets were thought to be a place for poor and unimportant people#and then white business men realized there was money to be made#and they created the studio system so that they could control the means of creation pretty directly#and push everyone who wasn’t “proper” out#this wasn’t an accident -- source link