“I regularly work sixteen hours a day. Yet, like most people I know who are similarly busy, I’m a pleasant, pretty normal person. But that’s not how working women are depicted in movies. I’m not always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and yelling, “I have no time for this!” Often, a script calls for this uptight career woman to “relearn” how to seduce a man, and she has to do all sorts of crazy degrading crap, like eat a hot dog in a sexy way or something. And since when does holding a job necessitate that a woman pull her hair back in a severe, tight bun? Do screenwriters think that loose hair makes it hard to concentrate.” — “The Woman Who Is Obsessed with Her Career and Is No Fun at All” in Mindy Kaling’s article Flick Chicks: A Guide to Women in the Movies for The New Yorker Meg WachterSeptember 26, 2011mindy kaling, the office, women, hollywoodComment Facebook0 Twitter Tumblr 0 Likes