A Pennsylvania man learned just how much subtle sexism women endure in the workplace when he and a female colleague conducted a surreptitious experiment that led to eye-opening results.
Martin Schneider opened up about the experiment in a series of tweets Thursday that have since gone viral, explaining what he learned when he and then-colleague Nicole Hallberg switched email signatures for a week.
“I was in hell,” Schneider wrote on Twitter. “Everything I asked or suggested was questioned. Clients I could do in my sleep were condescending. One asked if I was single.”
Hallberg, meanwhile, had a decidedly different experience.
Martin Schneider opened up about the experiment in a series of tweets Thursday that have since gone viral, explaining what he learned when he and then-colleague Nicole Hallberg switched email signatures for a week.
“I was in hell,” Schneider wrote on Twitter. “Everything I asked or suggested was questioned. Clients I could do in my sleep were condescending. One asked if I was single.”
Hallberg, meanwhile, had a decidedly different experience.
- 3/10/2017
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd
- PEOPLE.com
On Thursday, Isabel Coixet became only the second female director in the 65 years of the Berlinale to open the festival after Margarethe von Trotta did so with Das Versprechen in 1995. This year’s lineup puts a strong spotlight on women directors, such as Sonja Heiss’ Forum entry Hedi Schneider Is Stuck, about a woman whose life slips out of control when she gets panic attacks, Benoit Jacquot’s competition film Diary of a Chambermaid, starring Lea Seydoux, and Coixet’s Nobody Wants the Night, starring Juliette Binoche. Then, of course, there’s Fifty Shades of Grey, one of the most hotly anticipated
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- 2/7/2015
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
That Obscure Object Of Desire screens tonight at Bam as part of their Buñuel retrospective, July 11 - August 14).
Pauline Kael may have dubbed David Lynch “the first popular surrealist,” but the honor is more accurately bestowed upon Spanish maestro Luis Buñuel. Though his Salvador Dalí collaboration, Un chien andalou (1929), is regarded as a touchstone of the movement, it was not until later in his career that Buñuel would exploit the very meaning of the surreal, brashly straying from his contemporaries’ aesthetically driven impulses. With the respectively never-ending and never-beginning dinner parties of his elliptical masterpieces The Exterminating Angel (1962) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Buñuel’s breed of Surrealism drew itself so close to the upper middle-class quotidian, it became far more subversive than any old melting clock. The conceptual hysteria of his films is in turn grounded by a simplified mise-en-scène; the surroundings are such that any outlandish yarn appears rooted in reality.
Pauline Kael may have dubbed David Lynch “the first popular surrealist,” but the honor is more accurately bestowed upon Spanish maestro Luis Buñuel. Though his Salvador Dalí collaboration, Un chien andalou (1929), is regarded as a touchstone of the movement, it was not until later in his career that Buñuel would exploit the very meaning of the surreal, brashly straying from his contemporaries’ aesthetically driven impulses. With the respectively never-ending and never-beginning dinner parties of his elliptical masterpieces The Exterminating Angel (1962) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Buñuel’s breed of Surrealism drew itself so close to the upper middle-class quotidian, it became far more subversive than any old melting clock. The conceptual hysteria of his films is in turn grounded by a simplified mise-en-scène; the surroundings are such that any outlandish yarn appears rooted in reality.
- 8/8/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- MUBI
Writer/director John R. Schneider conceived the horror meta-comedy Smothered as an inversion on the classic slasher trope: instead of depicting nubile ladies being pursued by monstrous, masked killers, he totally flips the script, depicting a psychotic young woman taking up the axe to prey on those movie boogeymen. The film features a gallery of beloved genre names – including Kane Hodder, famed Jason Voorhees portrayer as well as Hatchet's Victor Crowley; R.A. Milhailoff, who took on the role of Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre III; Bill Moseley, best known as “Chop-Top” from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Otis in The Devil’s Rejects; and Brea Grant of Dexter and Rob Zombie's Halloween II. Even the '57 Plymouth Fury from Stephen King's Christine makes an appearance! “These are the real actors playing themselves for the most part, and that’s an element no one has explored before,” says Schneider,...
- 9/11/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
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