Talk:Portrayal of women scientists in film

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neutrality

This article presents a bleak picture, but I do not believe it accurately represents what people think about the portrayal of women scientists in film. There needs to be a lot more work done on this article before we should accept the message it is sending out that the portrayal is overall absymal with far more bad examples than good.

As a small example, I have added a counterpoint to the uniformly negative portrayal of how Gravity (2013) portrays women scientists in film.

It simply feels unsupported to give the reader this bleak an outlook.

Remember we should not give the reader such an outlook unless our sources support it. But merely compiling lots of sources with a negative outlook does not do it - that would be synthesis and original research. For this article to keep presenting such a bleak outlook it needs to find sources that do this synthesis for us!

Neutrality tagged. CapnZapp (talk) 06:30, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hey, just made a couple of adjustments to the intro section to try and neutralise the article and help the tone a bit. if i could have done better, let me know :) Sarcastichearts (talk) 01:01, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Title

The title should be corrected to "female" not "women" Llevene00 (talk) 04:19, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Examples of Women Scientists in Film

There are a total of 40 sources linked in this article, and I think the variety of the sources are well thought out. Some of the sources are articles, while others are personal testimonies of women scientists, speaking on a specific movie. The latest source, however, was 2021, which was an editorial piece on the latest movie referenced in the article, Black Panther. Though these sources are beneficial to the article as a whole, when editing this, I would probably add sources from a more recent period; I could possibly add sources on women during the pandemic, as the female scientist image has definitely shifted since then. The film examples given are also a bit outdated. Black Panther was the last film given example, and this movie was produced in 2018. If I were to edit this article, I would probably add one or two more movie examples that relate to the way female scientists have been portrayed in the 2020’s. Zoefeinberg (talk) 12:39, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]