The Glamour Women of the Year Awards honored many incredible women — but Reese Witherspoon stole the show with this speech about. She not only hit on issues of representation and ambition, but detailed the grave mistake Hollywood is making when it comes to women on screen.

NO GREATER MOTIVATION THAN PROVING ASSHOLES WRONG

my baby Reese serving some Elle Woods realness

The inner Elle Woods rises

AMBITION IS NOT A DIRTY WORD!

say it out, say it proud.

you can read the whole speech here

but this bit i wanted on my blog:

“I started asking questions, and I decided to meet with the heads of each of the different movie studios that I had been friends with for years and I had made many movies with them. Each of the meetings started with something very casual like, “How are your kids?” and “Wow, has it really been that long since Walk the Line?” At the end of the meeting, I sort of casually brought up, “So, how many movies are in development with a female lead?” And by lead, I don’t mean wife of the lead or the girlfriend of the lead. The lead, the hero of the story. I was met with nothing, blank stares, excessive blinking, uncomfortable shifting. No one wanted to answer the question because the fact was the studios weren’t developing anything starring a woman. The only studio that was was turning a man’s role into a woman’s role. And the studio heads didn’t apologize. They don’t have to apologize. They are interested in profits—and after all, they run subsidiary companies of giant corporations.

“But I was flabbergasted. This was 2012, and it made no sense to me. Where was our Sally Field in Norma Rae or Sigourney Weaver in Alien or Goldie Hawn in, you name it, any Goldie Hawn movie: Overboard, Wildcats, Private Benjamin? These women shaped my idea of what it meant to be a woman of strength and character and humor in this world. And my beautiful, intelligent daughter, who is 16 years old now, would not grow up idolizing that same group of women. Instead, she’d be forced to watch a chorus of talented, accomplished women Saran wrapped into tight leather pants, tottering along on very cute, but completely impractical, shoes turn to a male lead and ask breathlessly, “What do we do now?!” Seriously, I’m not kidding. Go back and watch any movie, and you’ll see this line over and over. I love to ask questions, but it’s my most hated question.

“I dread reading scripts that have no women involved in their creation because inevitably I get to that part where the girl turns to the guy, and she says, “What do we do now?!” Do you know any woman in any crisis situation who has absolutely no idea what to do?”

consent matters!

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Dreaming awake. (via itcuddles)

i am far too emotional about dead revolutionaries

I have a story.

Last year, around August, I was interviewing at various New York City costuming shops back before I realized I wanted to keep my costuming recreational and look for other opportunities. And I went to this one who was in the middle of working on a show. And this woman was talking to me about how they had been commissioned for this new piece and they had to make a bunch of colonial-era costumes and she described it to me and I remember thinking to myself

Who the hell would watch a fucking musical about Hamilton.

Why 'Free the Nipple' is happening

If my brother goes to a beach and takes his top off, it’s a beach If I go to a beach and take my top off, it’s a nude beach

If my boyfriend takes his top off because he is warm, he is cooling off If I took my top off because I was warm, it would be illegal

If my dad was in a magazine shirtless, he would be modelling If I was in a magazine shirtless, it would be seen as porn

If a guy runs around with his top off for no reason, nobody questions it If I was to breast feed my child however, which is totally natural and not at all sexual, I could be asked to put my breast away because I was making others feel ‘uncomfortable’

PLEASE support #freethenipple because it is so so so important and will help make everyones bodies equal

FREE THE NIPPLEEEEE

make sure all of the letters on my grave stone are lowercase so i can remain cool and casual even in death

Harriet Jones at West End Live 2015. Photo by Darren Bell.

Photo Coverage: LES MIS At West End Live - Rachelle Ann Go and Carrie… http://ow.ly/OzLlM

Wicked UK’s Emma Hatton at West End live 2015

I’m not ashamed to admit that there is very little I wouldn’t do for free musical tickets.