Before we begin, let’s mention a few words and their meaning.
Sexism: a type of discrimination/prejudice against a persons sex/gender. More specific, it is when people are treated unfairly only because they are a girl or boy. Unfortunately, women are usually the ones who face sexism the most.
Patriarchy: When men have more power and control than women, who have relatively no say.
Feminism: People who campaign/support the equality of men and women
Let’s get started!
It is nothing new that sexism exists in the world. It is also nothing new that sexism (and racism, but that’s a whole other story) exists in Hollywood. I am sure that most of you know who Mark Wahlberg is, he was in Transformers.
Currently, he is shooting a movie called, “All the Money.” This is quite an ironic title because it seems that Wahlberg received all the money for reshooting some scenes. He earned about $1.5 million.
So what is the problem you ask? Or think…?!
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So now, you weigh in. What are your thoughts about this, (especially given the words that were mentioned above?). How would you feel if you were treated differently than another person who completed the same job only because of your sex/gender? Please write roughly 8-12 sentences, with detail and strong opinion.
i think that this is very unfair because both actors had to take time out of their schedule to re shoot their movie but the male actor got a lot of money and the female got less then 1000 dollars
I am really surprised that even Hollywood messed up. because when growing up i would think that Hollywood is some kind of godly place and nothing could ever get wrong there but nooooo, I was so wrong. like this subject like seriously, a man gets 1.5 million dollars and a woman just gets like less then a thousand dollars. if i was that woman I would have quit right there.I mean seriously, theirs a big gap between what the man gets and what the Woman gets.I think they both of the actors deserve the same amount of money or at least just a little less.
I feel very bad for Michelle Williams, I can’t believe that she got less than 1 % of her co-actor! That is EXTREMELY sexist! How come Mark Wahlberg got $1.5 million and Michelle Williams only got $1000, actually under $1000! This is extremely sexist because since Mark Wahlberg is a male and Michelle Williams is a female Mark Wahlberg got more than Michelle Williams but I don’t think its fair. I feel like men and women should get the same rights. What do you guys think about the sexism in this story? (please reply in comments). Although Mark Wahlberg was in transformers which you would get a lot of money if you were in it . Michelle Williams got a Golden Globe award and Mark Wahlberg didn’t so I don’t know why Mark Wahlberg gets a higher pay than Michelle Williams. (although the real reason is probably because of sexism). That’s all for today’s sexist post see you guys next time!
i think there is a great deal of sexism going on here. I bet that these are both equally good actors/actresses. obviously there is a great deal of money being paid mostly to mark wahlberg. i think this is quite sexist and it is quite unnecessary with all this money being so lopsided. but at the the same time Mark wahlberg could of had the smaller paycheck. it just happened to be that it was a lady who was getting the pay check that was significantly lower than expected. there may be a case that Mark wahlberg made more mistakes so he has to have more time to do it. and ms. Williams getting less mistakes and will have less time. but being a actor and actors get paid a lot that is probably the wimpiest paycheck I’ve ever heard of. even for re shoots. this is defiantly not a mistake and just pure ignorance. the paycheck people or whatever their called clearly are just being plain stupid. i believe they should get fined for this. if they have an excuse for doing this like “well there was a cap” well then do about three quarters of a million each. if they are getting attention then they’ve got the attention. the bad attention.
As it states this woman and man went to do re-shoots the man got paid $1.5 million while the woman got paid less than a $1000. That guy was paid 1500 times more than the woman like really, I mean that is just sexist to woman what if the guy deciding the pays was payed less than another person even though they are on the same level I mean I would be really mad and I think the same with most people with my mindset would think the same way act. But the sheer difference is so appalling that I don’t know really hard to describe. Why is it that people are so sexist it is so bad and disgusting? Really I don’t believe in communism or pure socialism but neither to I believe in sexism. Why would some body believe in sexism well I think all of us are trying to answer that exact same question. The reason it is bad as I am shouting about like some dictator (I do not want to be like any dictator) is that difference doesn’t matter I mean what is better about boys over girls well really nothing they are both equal and human beings and also that man and woman were doing the same job and yet there as a drastic difference between the pays. I mean even if the man had a bigger role in the movie than the woman the pays are like so far apart they don’t even make sense
if i were Michelle Williams then i would feel betrayed by the company and go up to Mark Wahlberg and say hey give me some money, I mean like why do i get so little money?
I have to say but she should go to the director or something and complain about it, well i say Mark`s a mood killer for me. I really feel bad for Michelle and her family, because i usually care for money and famous actors plus all movies so what will i have to say to them? how would Mark make Michelle make more money? and make her feel better, and! sexism it doesn’t matter by the gender matters how you work and put your effort in it.
Why is this true? In a refilm in Hollywood made SUCH big sexism. this money from Mark Wahlberg is not less than 1500 times more than Michelle Williams, SEE THAT DIFFERENCE? At this moment, I hate that no one likes feminism, as a boy, I really wanted her to have equal amounts of money as Mark Wahlberg.
THAT’S STILL NOT IT. She has much more experience than him, she had him as a co-star, she’s a brilliant Oscar nominated Golden Globe winning actress, and she was better, THEN WHY DID SHE GET 1500 TIMES LESS THAN HER CO-STAR? I really don’t get that they gave Williams such small money.
This cruelty is horrible and sexist, if you see a man that has horrible experience and a woman that has great experience, you won’t do that, do you?
I do not think that it is fare that Walhberg is getting more money than Williams because she works just as hard as Walhberg do. I MEAN SERIOUSLY SHE IS LITERALLY GETTING PAID LESS THAN A THOUSAND IF I WAS HER I WOULD QUIT MY JOB!!!!!They shouldn’t treat her that way. They should actually be thank full that she agreed to be in that movie she has been an actress for 20 years! She does not deserve that kind of treatment honestly I feel very bad for her because even I would not want to be treated that way.
Think about it 1.5 million dollars compare it to less than 1 thousand that is just CRAZY!!!.Something even crazier is that she is also the main actress!!WHAT IS THAT!!!!!!! and that is why i do not think it is fare to Williams.
That is just too wrong for her. If it’s just one or two hundred, sure…… Still sexist. But the problem in here is that he got like $1.5 million, and she only got like less than thousand for reshooting the movie. I would knock down their business if I was her, because that’ s like they are trying to let her know that they don’t even care if she’s there or if she acted better than him, just because she’s a female!!! Now how is that supposed to be fair to the women. I believe that the females didn’t even try to take over the world or something, we want to be treated fairly. And for some reason, some people just won’t change their minds., so they just be sexist. And let everybody in the world know it because they think that’s something that they should be proud of. That is too wrong for Michelle, she Is a great actress. It’s too mean to just pay her less than thousand fro the movie. world, stop be SEXIST!!!
I think that Mark Wahlberg should not received that much money since his costar barely even received $1000, in which is is not 1% of how much money Mark earned. I know that they can not give Michelle the same amount, but I expected them to be I think that Mark Wahlberg should not received that much money since his costar barely even received $1000, in which is is not 1% of how much money Mark earned. Especially since the article says “the entire movie falls on the shoulders of Williams” Even worse, Both actors are represented by WME and they did not even assure that they get paid the same. That is got to hurt. I am surprised that Mark demanded 1.5 mil and actually got it, I thought he would earn $500 000 at best. Williams agreed to around $1000 dollars, and I think that is good enough, but oh no, good ‘ol Wahlberg asked for a six digit income, in which you could buy a house and still have a lot more left. Williams also had an Oscar nomination and a Golden globe, which is really impressive. Mark was in Transformers, yay. I could see why everyone was outraged by this dollar difference, since Williams did not even get 1% of Mark’s earnings. A huge difference. I do not no why the people making the movie even gave that much money to a single actor, and gave the also very important actor three pennies and a fly compared to the other.
In my opinion, I think that it is unfair that the male actor got over ten times the amount that the female actress got even though the both people shot the same thing. Wahlberg and Williams came in for free and agreed to reshoot their scenes and even took time off their own schedules to re shoot the scenes. But come on 1000 dollars? Less? what kind of thing are the people who gave the thinking I guess that they added a couple of 0s or backspaced them. Michelle Williams is a good actress who nominated Golden Globe and even a Oscar I mean it isn’t about skill so it is 100% sexism at work. is she Ellen the Generous or something? she only received less than 1000 dollars and she accepted it. Bah! They did not apologise for the mistake like what Cam Newton did. The BANK what the heck is the bank thinking authorizing this I mean 100 dollars is small but LESS? Oh come on what is it with Earth and sexism??? thx 4 reading! 😉
I think that Michelle Williams earn less money was that people thought she was useless unlike Mark Wahlberg on the other hand people knew him way better than Michelle Williams. We also know that Mark Wahlberg has acted in the movie transformer. He also have been in a many movies since 1993 in the movie The Substitute. But Michelle only has been in four movies. It might be also that they thought Mark Wahlberg was a man and was way stronger then Michelle Williams. Well Mark Wahlberg was only there to do re-shooting some scenes. Michelle Williams was part of the whole movie am i right. Maybe they should give at least 1 million dollars and make her day. Mark Wahlberg should earn as much as about 1 million dollars .
so what i think about this incident is that i think it is wrong, the reason why this is wrong is because girls should have the same respect as other people like what it said above Michelle Williams got under $1000 and Mark Wahlberg got 1.5 million dollars. Don’t you think this indecent is wrong because i certainly do. and also i feel like the director of the movie “All The Money” is being sexist because like i said mark got more money than Michelle and that just is not okay with me i don’t know about you but its not okay . and if that was me i would not feel happy i would be mad and sad at the same time and and i would also probably quit my job because of how rude this guy was. And i think that what the title said above us is actually true because he is actually taking all the money and barley giving any to Michelle and i feel horrible of what the producer did i just cant believe. I also think that there should be more people like Michelle because she didn’t care about what she was earning she didn’t care about it and i think that’s really amazing. and i got a question for you guys do you want more people in the word like Michelle? comment down below.
i think that the mark wasn’t being fair to Michelle because she was a women. women and men are all the same and there is no point in treating men better than woman. god created people all the same and we should all have the same rights and men shouldn’t be higher than women. us women have to prove who we are and show that we are strong. just because men are stronger than women doesn’t mean that women get paid less for their jobs and men have to get paid more that’s just sexist! men have more rights than woman and that’s not fair. my opinion on this is this is not right an this needs to change now.
I think that Michelle Williams should be treated the same as Mark Wahlberg with no difference. Like it said in the article above her performance was brilliant not like bad. I f she was bad then if you pay her less then okay may be but not too less. I think that it is unfair that she is paid less. She still memorized her lines, took up her time, and now she being paid less just because she’s a girl? unfair 🙁 If someone treated me differently because I was a girl I would be offended. Why do people treat other people differently just because they are a boy or a girl? 🙁 I think it is wrong because Michelle Williams just wasted her time and got less than one thousand dollars for all her work. Sexism is just ridiculous.
I think that is horrible. Why would people be so sexist like that? Why would he get all that money? They probably did the same amount of re shooting . If I was treated like this I wouldn’t be happy. I would feel really hurt and let down. I think that this is really bad because there is too much sexism happening in our world. I think that this unfair and very sexist. Why do these things only most happen to girls? Do they think we are hurting anybody or something? The people who made the amount of money the actors get is really wrong they should change it right away. They should change it to the same amount. Has this been in the news because it should be in the top stories. If people wrote “I think this is okay”, is super crazy. Why would they say that was okay? The girl who got payed less is probably feeling really sad and angry.
I think that who ever gave them the money is sexist and should be fired from their job for being a sexist idiot. Whoever gave them the money is sexist for sure because how do you make a mistake, by giving a man (Mark Walhberg) 1.5 million dollars and giving a women (Michelle Williams) less than 1000 dollars. They should be payed equally, even the producers said they should be payed equally but they didn’t. We should also just treat people equally. Its not right to be sexist, even thought it still happens in the world where women don’t get paid as much, or don’t get as much education as boys do. So if were going to be sexist then i think Michelle should get the 1.5 million dollars and Mark should get paid less that 100 dollars, Michelle deserves more because she plays more parts in the movie than him. So what i’m trying to say is that Sexism is wrong no one should be treated unfairly so lets stop sexism.
Why can they just split the money because if they did, everything would be fine but NO he didn’t. If this happened to me, I would feel very angry and upset. I would feel like the people who are shooting the movie did not care about me and I would be mad at them. Even though it would make me feel mad, I would still work in the movie industry. It would make me quit that movie industry and go to another one because maybe that one would give me more money.
I don’t think sexism is okay, the people don’t get treated equally and fairly. All genders should be treated the same, not any different.
I strongly believe that woman or man they should be treated fairly and with respect. Though it is true that sexism is still around and happening. But once again people are starting to lose their minds! If I was the man I would confront the company because I doesn’t matter how much money I get but to make the world a better place. Apparently Mark Williams is a stuck up greedy brat. After all Michelle was nominated for the Golden Globe and mark was not. If I was Michelle I would stand up for myself though other company may think that she always complaining. I wouldn’t even accept that 1000 dollars I would tell them that I deserve more or quite the job. I also have a few questions how come mark did nothing? How come the company even gave her less than 1000 dollars in the first place? Did they not know that it was going to start drama? Mark also decided that he would donate 1.5 million in Williams name, he obviously just wanted to seem humble in this situation.