These real Hollywood scripts show how superficially female characters are written

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Much has been said about the lack of substantial roles for women in Hollywood films — female characters are disproportionately underrepresented and hypersexualized, a 2013 study found. The issue goes far beyond who is directing the movie, too: A character is, after all, first conceived in a script. That's where Ross Putnam comes in.

Putnam is a producer who has created a Twitter account to highlight the fact that women are written as sexual objects right from the start. "These are intros for female leads in actual scripts I read. Names changed to JANE, otherwise verbatim... Apologies if I quote your work," Putnam writes in his bio.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.