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The Mary Sue
Myra Drake

Now Men Online Are Celebrating How Little Women Are in Movies? “Has Zero Female Speaking Roles”

A nearly-frozen, cornered Kurt Russell wards off assailants with a bundle of dynamite in John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing.’

It’s weird being a woman on the Internet. Over the weekend, a post from an X account called World of Statistics went viral, for sharing a “fun fact” about the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption. As the tweet reads, “there are only two female speaking roles, totaling about 10 seconds in a 2 hours and 22 minutes film.”

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