Nice Try, Hollywood, But a Female Superhero Won't Solve Your Gender Problem

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood diversity discussion has reached the point of supersaturation online: Not a scrap of movie or TV news escapes the boiling rage of fans, bloggers — even filmmakers — who are fed up with the indisputable fact that women and minorities are heinously underrepresented here.

These voices are passionate, they are persistent and they are armed with depressing statistics, like the fact that less than one-third of speaking characters in today's top movies are played by women, or that women directed 1.9% of those films. And it's not getting better.

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